This is Hashem’s comfort to us Klal Yisrael so many years after the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash that we, with our Avodas Hashem can be the ones to bring Mashiach. With this explanation we have a new understanding in the words we say in Shemone Esrei and Bircas Hamazon. We ask Hashem, ‘Uvnei osah bekarov beyameinu’ – and build it (the Beis Hamikdash) in the near future in our days (in our times). Uvnei Yerushalaim ir hakodesh bimhera beyameinu’ – and build Yerushalaim the holy city very soon in our days.
But there is another translation to those words. We ask Hashem to build Yerushalaim quickly ‘with our days’. Beyameinu can mean ‘in our days’ and it can mean ‘with our days’. How are we building Yerushalaim with our days? With our Torah, with our Tefilos and with our Mitzvos! Our Torah, our Tefilos and our Mitzvos will ultimately bring Mashiach. And if we know this, understand it and really believe in it, we will have a new respect and appreciation to our own Torah study, our prayers and our Mitzvos, and surely we will speed up Mashiach’s arrival.
Reprinted from the Parshat Va’eschanan 5784 email of Rabbi Dovid Caro’s Inspired by a Story.
