QUESTION: How could anybody really believe in the coming of a melech haMoshiach? If we don’t see him in front of us, so how could someone say he really believes in it?
ANSWER: And the answer is when a person trains himself to be an eved Hashem he comes to believe in the Word of Hashem. It’s absolutely possible! If Hakadosh Baruch Hu told us that there’s going to come a goel, and you’re a loyal eved Hashem, absolutely you could believe in it!
It’s only when people are stubborn and they prefer to listen to the foolishness of the outside streets. You walk in the streets, what are they talking about? Mets. Yanks. That’s all. A meshugeneh crazy world. They’re steeped in foolishness. But people yield to them. He wants to be part of the world and he yields.
No! I’m an eved Hashem. I disregard the umos haolam (nations of the world). They’re nothing. What they’re speaking about is nothing, it’s sheker. What Hakadosh Baruch Hu told me by means of His neviim (prophets), that’s emes (the truth). It’s more emes than this world is emes. What do you think? Broadway in Manhattan is going to last forever? Someday Broadway in Manhattan will be wiped out. It will happen someday. Even the forests might grow where Broadway is today.
So, it’s all foolishness, Olam Hazeh. Butּ„ – the words of Hashem,– will be forever; it will always be fulfilled (Yeshaya 40:8).
So, a person who is an eved Hashem, he can understand that, absolutely. To him, the coming of Moshiach is a reality, as true as anything else. It’s only a matter of gaining the proper Torah attitude. October 14, 1999
Reprinted from a recent email of Toras Avigdor. Adapted from a classic Thursday night hashkafah lecture delivered by Rav Miller on October 14, 1999.
Reprinted from a recent Toras Avigdor email.
