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Exiting the Ark of COVID-19

Op-Ed by Rabbi Levi Shemtov: We don’t know for sure how and when the current COVID-19 crisis will end, but the world will probably sing a similar tune but on a different note − what my musician friends call “modulation” − as we build a new civilization, hopefully on a higher plane than we’ve been before. Full Story

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Dovid Poltorak
May 15, 2020 10:10 am

Fantastic insight! Yasher koach!

AMEIN
May 15, 2020 10:58 am

Amein
Kein yehi ratzon keheref aiyin
Ushering in, a new world order
With the coming of
Moshiach
Tzidkeinu!
It should be NOW!

Change
May 15, 2020 11:13 am

Everybody has got reams full of pages filled with suggestions about how the world should be different when this is over. But unless individual people change, starting with the people who have all the ideas for how the world should change, we are gonna go right back to our smallness and pettiness. And it will be a shame.

To Change
Reply to  Change
May 15, 2020 12:28 pm

How about you say who you are, what you mean, and how you are going to change?

Thanks for a nice artice, BUT...
May 15, 2020 11:16 am

Why the reticence to say what you mean – when you write that the time of the fulfilment made to Avraham, “to get to that ultimate normal” – by saying that you must intend to mean – the redemption with Moshiach. (And Moshiach, being our Rebbe. ) The Rebbe said to proclaim – like the bells on the me’il of the Kohen Gadol’s coat, announced he was coming – to say out loud. Being reticent now, to proclaim – what was the Rebbe’s “koch” (to bring the redemption, since he was 3 years old, he said) – is old fashioned.… Read more »

Pinchos Woolstone
Reply to  Thanks for a nice artice, BUT...
May 15, 2020 12:55 pm

The Rebbe of Righteous Memory focused our attention on the “imminent” arrival of Moshiach , however he in no way entertained self promotion, he wanted every Jew to believe, really believe, that Moshiach was on his way now.
Until G-d sends Moshiach,( and no one knows exactly when and who that will be) we should concentrate on the Creators “blueprint” of Torah and Mitzvos as our Rebbeim teach us.
I commend the OpEd Rabbi Shemtov wrote for the Jewish Journal.

Truth
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May 16, 2020 5:18 am

Very true. May we not be scared to tell the world the Rebbes life mission and his goal for us to proudly usher in Moshiach. Let’s not be scared to tell the world what we are here for- to make the world for the coming of moshiach, may he come NOW!!!
Ad Mosai!!!!

From Robin Garbose
May 15, 2020 12:13 pm

A beautiful and profound essay. I love your analogy to the locked-in bird. It is indeed a unique opportunity for transformation. We must constantly remind ourselves that G-d Al-Mighty has brought this pandemic upon us for a reason and it is good. Wishing all of Klal Yisroel the insight and tools to prepare now for the ultimate redemption. May we all fulfill our special roles in its hastening. I can’t wait for that breath “of new fresh air!”

yashet koach!
May 15, 2020 2:29 pm

thank you for this beautiful and invigorating article. as someone for whom social interactions take effort, your article really helps motivate me to be ready to go back into the world again.

Great insight!
May 15, 2020 2:57 pm

Keep it up!
Thank you!
May it all happen very soon!!!

Julie Gaushauser
May 16, 2020 5:15 am

Definitely interesting however, my local Chabad Rabbi says this is all a preparation to the final “geulah”- the redemption and he explained to us how the late Rebbe obm told us to see major events happening currently as G-d’s glory slowly being revealed, through his “shechina” manifesting itself into our mundane reality. So Rabbi Shemtov, how does your view on this fit with the life message and goal of the Rebbe obm that all our days and all we experience is a step closer to the “geula”? Otherwise, thanks for this great thought provoking piece and awaiting your response. Thanks… Read more »

Great Story one after the other
May 16, 2020 1:57 pm

Your perpective is right on. Y Kutner

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