“well labavitch has had so many deaths in the past 2 months and because it says he is coming in nissan, they are all convinced of it that he is coming this month!!”
I never understand these predictions.
So because some people die (I’m not saying that it isn’t painfully sad) therefore Mashiach MUST be coming?
I just don’t get it.
On a side note, we live in a time where as bad as the Arab terrorism is, there is veritable utopia for Jewish people.
Never in the history of the Galus, have Jews had it so easy.
We hear stories or we know people who suffer (young people dying etc.) however this does not compare to what life was like 100 years ago.
Most people here had great great grandparents, who very likely lost a few children. Infant mortality rate was around 20 or 30%.
That means that for every 4 children, one of them died.
Many many women died during childbirth.
Progroms were rampant.
Blood libels and massacre were normal day to day events.
But yet today when one or two or three people die, we say, “Oh It MUST be because Mashiach is coming”
I want to understand it. I simply don’t.