But the answer is that we are wrong. Every generation is going downhill but Mashiach is still going to come and hopefully in our times. Furthermore, it will be our Torah, our prayers, our Mitzvos which will ultimately bring Mashiach. The obvious question is, how is this possible? The answer is very simple. Hashem doesn’t judge a Mitzva just by the way it looks to us. Hashem sees the circumstances in which the Mitzva was done and accordingly judges a Mitzva.
In the previous generations, Klal Yisrael had much less Nisyonos and much less challenges than we have. So, although our Mitzvos don’t look anything like their Mitzvos do, but in Hashem’s eyes our Mitzvos have a completely different appearance. Hashem knows the challenges we face in our times. He knows how hard it is for us and how hard it is to concentrate and focus when we are doing our Avodas Hashem. So, Hashem judges our Mitzvos so differently than we look at them ourselves.
