Moshiach for Cows

Moshke came home with breaking news: “The rabbi just announced that some Moshiach guy is coming soon, and plans on taking us all to Israel!”

Shprintza was horrified: “To Israel? How could we leave the cows alone? Oy vey!”

Moshke runs back to the rabbi to voice his wife’s objections.

The rabbi says: “Moshke! Forget about cows, when Moshiach comes and we go to Israel, we will never have to suffer from the Cossacks and anti-Semites! No more fear!”

When Shprintza heard what the rabbi had said, she came up with a brilliant idea: “Listen Moshke, go tell the rabbi, to tell this Moshiach dude, to take the Cossacks with him to Israel, and leave us alone!”

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Who needs Moshiach?

Well, if you had lived in Poland in 1940, or in Russia 1960, in Spain 1492, ah! Then Moshiach sounded like a good idea. But in our ‘life-is-great’ free world, who cares about redemption? Redemption of what?

Mafia? Terrorists? Let Moshiach take the crooks and villains and leave us be.

So maybe this Moshiach stuff is not what you think. Take a look in “our” Torah portion.

Jacob is in Egypt, and life is great. His son Joseph is world renowned as the savior. The rest of his sons have built a flourishing Jewish community with Yeshiva’s and synagogues in the suburbs of Egypt. The Family cattle business is prospering, and all is well.

All is well? Then why when it comes time to be buried, Jacob insists to be taken to Israel? Ok, you want to be buried in the Holy-Land, but to leave your family? Your children need you for inspiration and strength!

That is just it! Jacob wanted with all his heart to remain with his offspring’s, however knowing how connected his children felt to him, he feared that were he to be buried in Egypt they will never leave! So Jacob had self sacrifice, he left his beloved family, just that they should know that exile is not home.

A Jew in exile, no matter how nice and dandy it may seem, is not home.

When Moshiach comes we will serve a revealed G-d, no more hiding-and-seek games with Hashem. That is redemption, a time when we serve G-d in a G-dly world.

True, there will be no suffering and no restraints, but that is only an outcome of the infinite light that will shine. Duh! When G-d is seen by all, obviously no one will do evil!

That was Jacob’s lesson! Get out! Don’t be at peace with the situation, this is not the ideal.

Cows? Money? Who needs ‘em, we are gonna have the real McCoy!

Well, he’s coming.

Hurry! Ready or not, here he comes.