“Whenever things got worse, Jews would say, ‘This is a sign!  Moshiach is coming!’  But in those days, a messianic era would have meant a radical change in the natural order of things.  Today, though the human soul sleeps a deep slumber of materialism, the material world itself is prepared.  All the technology needed to flood the world with wisdom, the ability to feed the world many times over, the acceptance of values of universal peace and tolerance, the understanding of the oneness of all things in practical terms – all is set in place, waiting.

In fact, if our great-grandparents in the shtetl would have heard about our times, they would have no doubt they were hearing about the messianic times.  R’ Tzvi Freeman