Q&A: When Is The Beginning of The Redemption? Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Well, the term, you know, as called the Geulah, the beginning of the Geulah, uh can have any any number of meanings. I mean, what it basically means is that we are told in Pesukim and we are told in Chazal that the advent of Mashiach is going to be preceded by a number of steps. So, Aschalta DeGeulah is when we begin to see that some of these steps are beginning to materialize. Now, what are those steps? Part of them involves Milchamot, various struggles, and then you'll have all sorts of interpretations, which war corresponds to which event, Gog U'Magog, things like that. And part of it would be the fertility of Eretz Yisrael. The Gemara in Kesubos says that Ein Lach Keitz Megulah, you have no sign of redemption more openly revealed than the fertility, the rejuvenation of Eretz Yisrael, which we certainly have seen in the past. Right? So, Aschalta DeGeulah simply means uh you learn Chazal and you know, you learn Tanach also, of course, but in the light of Chazal's interpretation, and you see the types of things that are supposed to happen before the Geulah comes, and then you can make a judgment that we're in the period of Aschalta DeGeulah. Now, where it gets murky is like Satmar Rav, other people who are very anti-Zionist, uh they say that there can be mirages, there can be false starts, meaning to say, uh you can have the Simanim, but they come from Sitra Achra, they come from

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1. 0:00Well, the term, you know, as called the Geulah, the beginning of the Geulah, uh can…
2. 0:30involves Milchamot, various struggles, and then you'll have all sorts of interpretations, which war corresponds to…
3. 1:00learn Chazal and you know, you learn Tanach also, of course, but in the light of…
4. 1:30the other side, they come from the Satan, uh you know, ways of fooling you. I…
5. 2:00you're seeing signs of Mashiach, does that mean that it's inevitable that the process will continue?…
6. 2:31is it is indeed from the Chasam Sofer. The Chasam Sofer writes that we should not…
7. 3:01Hashem bring the Geula as soon as possible, but not specifically for the end of milchama.…
8. 3:32term actually appears in the Mishnah it itself. Uh Aschalta de Geula does not appear in…
9. 4:03a definitive shot what the differences would be.…

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