MATERIAL BOUNTY IN THE AGE OF MOSHIACH
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At the end of Tractate Ketubot, the Talmud lists an array of wonderful and supernatural changes that will occur upon Moshiach's arrival. This is just one example:
Rabbi Chiya, the son of Yosef, said: In the time of the future Redemption the Land of Israel will produce ready-made pastries and fine wool clothing, as it says in Psalms, “Let abundant grain (pisat bar) be in the ground”; pisat can mean fine garments and bar alludes to bread.
Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz, a 18th century talmudist, in his commentary on the Talmud, explains what will cause this miraculous change:
It could be explained as follows: This is on account of the fact that the curse that the land produce thorns was a consequence of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge by Adam, the first man. And as a result, it was decreed upon him that he will eat bread by the sweat of his brow. Therefore, in the future Redemption when the cause for the curse, namely the sin of Adam, the first man, will have been rectified, and death will be swallowed forever, automatically the curse too will end, and the earth will revert back to its original state and produce ready-to-eat pastries.
