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Seeing
The Geulah - "The Time of Your Redemption Has Arrived"
In the year 5751, the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, announced, "Higia Zman
Geulaschem!" - "The time of your Redemption is here!" Now,
more than five years later, some people are wondering exactly where we are
holding in the revelation of the Geula. On the one hand the Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach clearly stated - as a prophecy - that the Geulah is here, so we
must believe it. But must we rely solely on belief? The Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, did not characterize our time as a time when our belief in the
Geulah must be reenforced and strengthened so that we will be able to
accept the fact that the Geulah is here. In fact, he said quite the
opposite:
On 19 Kislev, 5752 the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, made the following
very clear and very strong statement: "In these days - the Days of
Moshiach - which we are now in, all we need to do is open our eyes and then
we see that the true and complete Geulah is already here, literally." <8>Thus
we don't have to rely on emunah to maintain that the Geulah is here. We can
see it with our eyes. Just as in the case of the Jewish scientist his
internal conflict was resolved by doing deeper scientific research, here
too the internal conflict is resolved by doing deeper research into the
world - "opening the eyes". This involves looking at the world in
a more analytical and penetrating manner. But in order to do this one must
be professionally trained just like the scientist must be professionally
trained in order to carry out scientific research. Thus the first
instruction that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, gave after announcing that
the Geulah was here, was to study all the topics of Moshiach and Geulah in
order to be able to "live with the times" - to understand the
world in this new Era of Moshiach. <9>In other words, we were instructed to
professionally train ourselves in the area of Moshiach and Geulah.
In several cases, the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, himself opened up our eyes
to see the Geulah in the world. Throughout the year 5751, the Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, explained many times that the Pesian Gulf War, which at first
freightened the world but then ended in a sudden miraculous victory while
the Land of Israel remained safe throughout, was predicted in detail by the
Medrash Yalkut Shimoni as the war that preceeds the revelation of Moshiach.
At this time, the Medrash says, Melech HaMoshiach arises and announces,
"Higia Zman Geulaschem!" This was exactly the announcement that
the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach made at that time. That was the revelation of
Melech HaMoshiach.
It is important to realize just how far reaching this is. The Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach, explained that by the natural course of events, the Persian
Gulf War would have led to a world war. Of course, the world war would have
been a global nuclear war which would have destroyed the whole world, chas
v'shalom. Thus we are now enjoying the benefits of the miracle of this war
not having occurred. Clearly, all other conflicts remaining in the world
are mere "child's play" compared to a global nuclear war. It may
be a bit hard to appreciate this since we are talking about a war that
didn't happen. But all we have to do is think back to a world war that did
happen - World War II - and imagine: What if the revelation of Moshiach had
occurred in 1939 and had miraculously brought World War II to a sudden halt
and prevented the Holocaust from happening....
The freedom of the Jews to leave Russia and go to Israel as many
thousands of them did, was the beginning of Kibutz Galuyos, the Ingathering
of the Exiles. The characteristic of this exodus which clearly defined it
as part of the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Ingathering of the
Exiles was the fact that they were free to leave in a pleasant and peaceful
manner (i.e. not in a manner of escape) and with the assistane of the
Russian government! <10>
The declaration by the heads of state of the major world powers (in Feb.
'92) that they were going to reduce arms production and increase food
production for the world, was the beginning of the fulfillment of the
Messianic prophecy of Yishayahu, "They shall beat their swords into
plowshares." <11>At our Moshiach and science conference in 5753 on the
theme "Bringing Moshiach Into the World of Science", Rabbi Dr.
Naftali Berg z.l. who was the Director of Research of the Advanced
Technology Office of the Army Research Center at the Pentagon, spoke at
length about how the beating of the swords into plowshares - the
transformation of military technology into peaceful technology - is an ongoing
process at the Pentagon. He focused particularly on this administration's
new "dual use technology" policy which states that any new
technology researched for military use must be simultaneously researched
for peaceful use. Thus there is no longer any pure military technology.
Another example of beating swords into plowshares is a new design for a
nonproliferative nuclear reactor, designed by a nuclear engineer at Tel
Aviv University, Prof. Alvin Radkowsky. Some twenty years ago, he met with
the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, for 45 minutes during which time they
discussed many matters of science and he received the blessing of the
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. After that he moved to Israel where he began the
design of this new nuclear reactor which, if successful, would supply cheap
nuclear energy to all nations of the world without fear of the materials
being used to make weapons. The president of the Radkowsky Thorium Power
Corporation and a company physicist spoke about all this at our conference
in 5754 on the theme "Seeing Moshiach Through the Eyes of
Science".
In addition to the specific information about the presence of Geulah in the
world that the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, conveyed in each of these cases,
he was actually opening our eyes - training us how to look at the world
with eyes of Geulah.
We, as professional scientists, in addition to the above, have the
imperative to look deeply into the course of the development of science in
recent years and see how the sciences themselves are converging to the
"truth of both the principles and the details" of the Torah and
preparing us for the revelations of the Era of Moshiach.
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