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To: jjotto
I think I agree with you right down the line and I am optimistic. (The Jewish story of the introduction to the Messianic Age is filled with goodness, unlike the Apocalypse in Christianity). But at heart I have a mystical outlook; these behaviors have spiritual roots. As the Sages teach, everyone has some sparks of Amalek in them, but ALL can transcend the negativity.

I don't know, some of the prophecies are pretty scary (such as Milchemet Gog uMagog, the "birthpangs of Messiah," and the last pre-Messianic generation having the characteristics of a dog). At any rate, sweetness always seems to be in short supply and horrors are always readily available. How long can the world go on this way? I know: stupid question. It's always gone on regardless of circumstances.

The Talmud records “Some of the descendants of Haman [who in turn was a descendant of Amalek, converted to Judaism and] studied the Torah in public,” and even names R. Shmuel bar Shilas. No one is without hope.

Yes, even I have heard the teaching about Haman's descendants. It does give hope.

101 posted on 11/06/2011 3:31:43 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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http://www.mpaths.com/2010/06/gog-umagog-already-passed.html

...I queried a Chabad Mashpia this past week before I wrote the previous article commented upon. My question was, “Please clarify for me, did the Rebbe say that the Geulah _can_ come without all the negative prophecies of the Nach (biblical prophets) or _will_ come without all the negative prophecies?” He answered, “The Rebbe said the Geulah _CAN_ come without all the negative prophecies.” And I’ll add the Rebbe clearly defined that SOME of the prophecies have already been fulfilled...

http://yeranenyaakov.blogspot.com/2005/05/follow-up-to-gog-umagog-post.html

...The Melitzer Rebbe, my esteemed and beloved teacher and spiritual guide, explained to me yesterday - in the exact words that he heard from the holy Rebbe Aaron of Belz of blessed memory - that the murder of 6,000,000 Jewish martyrs in the Nazi Holocaust was the pinnacle of Gog and Magog’s attack against Am Yisroel, the people of Israel. As a result, a third of the Jewish people was destroyed.

Gog and Magog are dead...


104 posted on 11/06/2011 3:44:27 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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