While the civilized world is still celebrating the end of the evil life of the world’s most dangerous terrorist Osama bin Laden yemach shemo people are not focusing sufficiently on the disappearance from the public arena of many of Klal Yisrael’s longtime enemies. This may be fine for the rest of the world but we members of Klal Yisrael on whose behalf all these miraculous events are taking place must take note and offer shevach v’hodaah on every one of these events.
Over the last few months we have witnessed with astonishment that practically overnight our most feared enemies have quietly been removed from the world stage. From Libya to Yemen and hopefully soon to Syria our enemies of decades have just vanished from the world arena. There has even been talk in the news of late that our archenemy in Iran the Haman of our day may be in the process of being impeached in the next few months.
Think tanks around the world are chasing their tails trying to figure out what is going on and how it is possible that the US State Department and CIA were caught completely off guard by these events. Talk shows and roundtable discussions are trying to predict who is next and where all this will lead.
What they failed to hear is the deep insight that the venerable mashgiach of Yeshivah Torah Vodaath Rav Moshe Wolfson shlita shared with his students and mispallelim over these last several months. The Zohar describes that in Acharis HaYamim the days preceding the final redemption of Klal Yisrael the Sar shel Yishmael will fall taking along with him the nation that he was assigned to protect. And that is what we are witnessing now.
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