Reply To: Why oh why all the pain??

When the Sefer Torah is returned to the aron, we pray “Chadesh yomeinu k’ kedem.” We pray that HaShem renews His people, Klal Yisroel, and the nations of the world at large to a sense of morality, shleimus, and at-oneness with Him. The Torah is not only the blueprint for the universe, but is also the only means by which Klal Yisroel can be redemmed and restored to a state of shleimus. Only when we abandon all evil and foreign ideas and return to the emes and zisskeit of Torah will we be redeemed from golus and see Moshiach come.