Yearning for the Final Redemption, Am I?

This would explain why Rav Yechezkel Levenstein says that when it comes to the arrival of Mashiach and the resurrection of the dead, we are quiet as if we are embarrassed to speak about them as if we have given up them altogether. Before we begin discussing Mashiach in-depth, let me quote to you the words of Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian:

[There’s a dispute whether World War III will be before the revelation of the Mashiach or after [see Otzrot Acharit HaYamim (Hebrew), http://bit.ly/2zqNFjv (link to view the seifer online) or When Moshiach Comes: Halachic & Aggadic Perspectives (English) by Yehudah Chayoun, part 1, chapter 5, The Battle of Gog and Magog. See also The Future: Guide to Messiah by Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, Preparing For Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston and Hold On: Surviving Days Before Moshiach by Roy S Neuberger].

True, to the Chofeitz Chayim’s prediction, World War II began in 1939, exactly 25 years later! How did his prediction materialize so accurately?

Does there need to be a third world war? It depends on us.

The Hebrew word for return, תְּשׁוּבָה, is derived from תָשׁוּב אֶל-יקוק, [You shall] return to Hashem” [(Devarim 30:10) see also The Wisdom In The Hebrew Alphabet by Rabbi Michael L. Munk, page 87]. In other words, returning to the path G-d set for us when we were born, the path that our souls recognize as home-bound, the path of goodness of becoming a better person, a different person, not a perfect person (The Power of Teshuvah by Rabbi Heshey Kleinman, pages 61-62)

[See Yalkut Shimoni, Tehillim 106:865 פעמים ד"ה and Nidchei Yisrael volume 2, chapter 34 ד"ה והנה].

Furthermore, one should involve himself in Torah, doing acts of kindness and eating three meals on the Shabbos.

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Dedicated in memory of:

• Velvel Volf Zev ben Aharon - sanctified G-d's Name amongst Jews and non-Jews.

• Shimshon ben Meshulam Dov - exemplified living with happiness and did the same to others despite the challenges he was going through in his own life.

• HaRav Zechariah Shimon ben Yitzchak HaKohein - gave of himself both physically and spiritually on behalf of the Jewish People.

• Bryna Bracha bas Aryeh Yaakov - was a 🌟 in relationships with people and our Creator.

• Rav Meir Yaakov ben HaRav Aharon - revolutionized the transmission of the Written and Oral Torah on behalf of the Jewish People.

• Rav Yisrael Meir ben R’ Aryeh Zev HaKohein, Menachem Mendel ben Levi Yitzchak, Elchonon Bunem ben Naftali Beinish Hy”d.

• Reva Leah bas Dovid Yehoshua, Eliezer Moshe ben Avraham, Kayla Rus bas Bunim Tuvia, Rabbi Uri Zohar, Shmuel Aharon ben Nasan Nattah and Ezra Yonatan ben Gary.