Prophesies Coming To Fruition .......... by DIN

by Rabbi DIN .....

The Talmud in Tractate Shabbos 31, quotes the prophet Isaiah (33 6) ...

והיה אמונת עתיך חסן ישועת חכמת ודעת יראת ה' היא אוצרו

"The faith of your times will be the strength of your salvations, wisdom and knowledge;

 fear of Hashem ..... that is [man's] treasure"

The Talmud explains that the Navie Isaiah is warning us about the questions that will be asked of us ....at the time of death when they escort us to our final judgement after we reach 120 years.

"Did you conduct your business transactions faithfully?" " Did you set aside fixed times for Torah study?" " Did you engage in procreation?" 

"Did you wait in hope for the Messianic salvation?

The Ran (medieval commentary on Talmud) says that this question:

"Did you wait in hope for the Messianic salvation?" 
means ..

"ציפית להתקיימות דברי הנביאים בימיך "

"Were you hoping that the words of the prophets would come to fruition in your days?"

This past week we actually saw the words of the prophets coming true.... 

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Over 40 heads of state, including the President of Russia, Vice President of the USA, .... the heads of state of France and Germany,
came to ask forgiveness from the Jewish people in regard to the atrocities their countries perpetrated on the Jewish people during the Holocaust ...

And this is actually the prophesy that Isaiah prophesied....

And who read the prophesy of Isaiah at this get-together?
None other than the leader of Germany! 
Listen to his words  ...

listen ..how he quotes directly from Isaiah (53) 

?מי האמין לשמועתנו? וזרוע ה' על מי נגלתה"

ויעל כיונק לפניו, וכשרש מארץ ציה, לא תואר לו ולא הדר ונראהו 

"ולא מארה ונחמדהו

"Who would believe what we have heard? 
For whom has the arm of Hashem been revealed? 
Formerly he grew like a sapling or like a root from arid ground; (Israel)
he had neither form nor grandeur; 
we saw him, but without such visage that we could desire him."

"Who would believe just 75 years ago that this would be the Jewish people ... who would have believed that there would be a Jewish State established?"

נבזה, וחדל אישים, איש מכאבות וידוע חלי,
 וכמסתר פנים ממנו" 

"נבזה ולא חשבנהו

"He was despised and isolated from men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness. As one from whom we would hide our faces; he was despised, and we had no regard for him"

The German leader ended his speech with the bracha:

ברוך אתה ה' אלוקינו מלך העולם שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה

He added that he came to ask forgiveness understanding that there can never be forgiveness for such an enormous crime ...

Leader after leader got up to beg forgiveness ...

Are these not words that our prophets promised us will happen?

Let me indulge you guys with the words of the Navie Isaiah, 
(chapter 60 ...14) words that the German leader did not say ...and can be found just verses further in the prophesy ....

Hold on to your seats ....... because these words will blow you away:

והלכו אליך שחוח בני מעניך,.
 והשתחוו על כפות רגליך כל מנאציך,
 וקראו לך עיר ה' ציון קדוש ישראל

"The sons of your oppressors will go to you submissively, 
and all who scorned you, will prostate themselves at the soles of your feet; 
they will call you 
'City of Hashem, Zion of the Holy One of Israel"

Fascinating ! Isn't it?

Now look at the words of the Radak:

שמי שעשה את זה לא יזכה להגיע לזה,  אבל הבנים שלהם כן, הם יהיו מוכנים להשתחוות לפני ישראל 

"Those who perpetrated these atrocities will not be the ones who will come to bow down to Israel..... but their children will!"

The Radak who lived over 700 years ago predicted that these apologies will take place in Yerushalyim...

Just a bit over a year ago... no country even recognized that Yerushalyim belongs to the Jewish people...
President Obama on his way out the door allowed a UN resolution to stand that denied Jewish sovereignty over Har Habayis, and Chevron....
Came the present President of the USA, the leader of the entire free world and not only proclaimed that Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel but moved his embassy there to show the entire world that Jerusalem is in fact the Capital of Israel and will never be divided and will always belong to us..

Who would have believed this?

We are the ones who need to  make the bracha "Shehechyanu" that we merited to see the words of Isaiah come true in our days.

Watching the leaders of the world with bowed heads entering Yad Ve'Shem, which was streaming live .... 
we saw the words of Yeshayah Hanavie come alive!

Vice President Pence proclaimed in Hebrew:

עושה שלם במרומיו הוא יעשה שלום עלינו ועל כל ישראל 

Anyone reading this 30 to 40 years ago would not believe that this could happen!

Has it ever occurred in the entire world history that leaders of the entire world would come together for an event that had nothing to do with world business...nothing to do with climate change....no funeral for a head of state ..

but to get together for a spiritual event ....?

To ask forgiveness from the Jewish people?

 mamash: 

בשוב ה' את שיבת ציון היינו כחולמים 

We are in a dream that we cannot fathom... 
we cannot understand this dramatic turn of events.. 

Just 80 years ago a Jew wasn't worth a kilo of sugar....he was worth less than an animal.... less than a dog ....

In Germany there were severe penalties for hurting a dog... but there were no penalties for murdering a Jew!

Our Shuls were burned down, our wives and children murdered, tortured....

Now just decades later, not a thousand years later,.... but just decades ... 
their children have come to beg forgiveness from the Jewish people.....

 Our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents who had their entire families annihilated by the parents of these leaders, were hoping against hope for this to happen, they were waiting for the words of the navie to come true but unfortunately they didn't have the merit to witness this. ....
Some did ... 

Question:

When in Jewish history did the nations ask forgiveness from the Jewish people?

Did the King of Bavel ask forgiveness? Did the King of ancient Greece ask forgiveness? Did the King of Persia ever ask forgiveness?

Did the Romans ask forgiveness? Did Spain ask forgiveness? Did England ask forgiveness? Did the Cossacks ask forgiveness....?

Maybe here and there one or two countries asked forgiveness...but 45 heads of state?

Last week in the here and now, they asked for our forgiveness 

and where did this happen ?

In Yerushalyim....... exactly as the prophet predicted!

A city that no one in the last 2,000 years thought would be rebuilt .....

A city that lay in waste without hope .... just over 100 years ago......

We have not only merited to see a Jewish State established ...

but we merited to see the return of Kivrei Avot, Mearat Ha'machpeilah, the Kotel, Har Habayis, Yerushalayim, Bet Lechem, Shechem.... 

I grew up not having any of this ....

How many millions of  people since 1967 poured their hearts out in these places and had their prayers answered...?
How many people come yearly to the Kotel....?
To cry and beg Hashem for salvation ...feeling close to their Creator ...standing and touching the stones that the Romans couldn't destroy ...
Last year over 850,000.... 

No...we don't have it all yet...but we are getting it back piece by piece..
There is still a mosque on top of the Kodshei Kadishim...

We have a lot to still work on ....like Shmiras Shabbos etc...

It's not perfect ... but it never was....

But we need to affirm the words of the Talmud .... the words that will be asked of all of us when we after 120 years, meet our Maker!

"ציפית להתקיימות דברי הנביאים בימיך "

"Were you hoping that the words of the prophets would come to fruition in your days?"