...this article by Rivka Levy should help us keep our eyes on the goal we've been praying and waiting for!
Also, if you can make it to Hevron tonight at 10PM (22:00) Israel time, Rivka announces a prayer gathering here. Hat tip: Orna Nitzevet. (Honestly, if I find myself there it will be a miracle in itself. I just read about it.)
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When a couple announces their engagement, it’s always interesting to see if the focus is going to be on the wedding, or on the marriage.
The more superficial the people involved, the more ‘Hollywood-headed’, the more they are trying to live life according to a Disney script, the more interest they’ll take in the big day – their chance to shine – with precious little thought to what really comes after.
Thousands of bucks will be spent on the pink champagne, the dress, the breath-taking venue in the Bahamas, flying the guests in on whatever replaced Concorde. And often, those types of ‘celebrity’ weddings hit the headlines in a blaze of glory and triumph.
Only for the marriage to fizzle out and fail, a little while later.
By contrast, when the focus is on the marriage, and not on the wedding, things are usually done pretty differently right from the beginning. The couple – and everyone else around them – is far more focused on what comes after the chuppa.
Where are the happy couple going to live? What are they going to eat? How are they going to get along together? How are they going to manage, day to day? Who’s going to be paying the bills?Yes, of course, there’s still a do to arrange, and a dress to buy, and a band and hall to hire – it is a wedding, after all. But the wedding isn’t the focus, the marriage is.
All this came to mind, when I was thinking about what it really actually means to ‘live’ in the times of Moshiach, and geula.
Read more here: Deconstructing Geula
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