After all is said and done, there are basically two things that can be said about this world we live in and this life we inhabit. Either it's a hotchpotch of objects and events going nowhere in particular. Or else there's a plan -- a method buried somewhere in all the madness, a goal towards which all this is
headed.
Four thousand years ago, Judaism embraced the latter option and proceeded to convince the rest of the world of this truth. That the world has a Creator. That the Creator has a plan, and that everything that occurs -- good and evil, momentous
and trivial -- is a step in the march towards its fulfillment. That life has purpose. That all this is leading somewhere -- somewhere good.
The rest is commentary.
From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe:
Facing Reality
For Real
Land and See
The Right Not to Know
The Quest for Peace
The Window
The Fifty-Sixth Century
Stories:
The Clock
The Palace and the Pigeons
by Tzvi Freeman
A Surgical Procedure
by Yrachmiel Tilles
The Old Man on the Island
by Yanki Tauber
Cholent
by Yanki Tauber
Contemporary Voices
Coming In for a Landing
by Yeruchem Eilfort
A Mother's Plea
by Chana Weisberg
Timed Out
by Chana Weisberg
"Some Say the World Will End in Fire, Some Say in Ice…"
by Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
Sighting Moshiach
by Tzvi Freeman
Is the World Really Getting Better?
by Tzvi Freeman
Cold Soup
by Manis Friedman
Belief in Moshiach
a conversation between Susan Handelman and Manis Friedman
The Truth about Moshiach
by Naftali Silberberg
A Chaos of Infinite Light
by Yaakov Brawer
A Taste of Future
by Eli Touger
Who Believes in Moshiach?
by Yanki Tauber
Technology of the Redemption
by Naftali Silberberg
The Seven Fat Cows
by Yanki Tauber
A Gathering with the Rebbe in 1992
by Yanki Tauber
Is Judaism a Theocracy?
by Yanki Tauber
The Skeptic and the Believer: a Conversation on Moshiach
by Yanki Tauber
Eternity
by Zvi Yair
Listening
by Tzvi Freeman
From the Sources:
A selection of source-texts on Moshiach and the inherent goodness of creation from the Bible, Prophets, Midrash, Talmud, the classical commentaries, Kabbalah, the chassidic masters, and sages of all ages; compiled by Yanki Tauber
