<h2>Giving Birth to Geulah</h2><p>May our positive resolutions made in connection with birthdays hasten the birth of the Jewish people in the fullest sense—which will be accomplished with the coming of the true and complete Redemption! As is known, exile is compared to pregnancy, and Redemption to childbirth.</p><p><strong>Tzedakah for a Quick Birth</strong><br> We particularly hasten this "birth" through distributing tzedakah, for "tzedakah hastens the Redemption" (Bava Basra 10a; 7 Adar, Hisvaaduyos 5748, p. 321).</p>