Geula Update from Rav Fish - Last Week of Nissan 5778 - Part 1

From Rav Fish's latest (starting on p. 23):


And this is the wording of the Midrash (Otzar Hamidrashim Eisenstein, Midrash Rashb"i, p. 556):

And this is your sign [that the Redemption is close]: When you see that the Nero of the East who is in Damascus has fallen, the kingdom of the children of the East [Yishmael] will fall, and then the salvation for Israel will sprout.

R' Avraham Feldman adds that נרון מזרחי [Nero of the East] is the same gematria as בשאר אסאד [Bashar Assad] plus the words¹.

And the government in Damascus is connected to the מפלגת הבעת [Baath Party], which hints to a Geula that is בעתה [Be'itah - same letters].

And it's brought down in Likutei Mohara"n (57):

"The Gate of Aram" refers to the aspect of the gate of the Sitra Ahara... And when it falls again and again, then Ben David will come and the gates of holiness will be built.

And it's also brought down in the book "Emunat Itecha" that כוס חמשי [the 5th cup] which symbolizes The Future Redemption has the same gematria as דמשק [Damascus].

It's brought down in the Malbim (Daniel 12:7)²:

"And when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people" - that the governments of the princes who stand on the bank of the river will end - because then, the Kingdom of Heaven will begin.

An idea similar to this is brought down about Paras in Targum Yonatan on the verse: "And it came to pass, that, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram". The Targum says:

"Fell" refers to Persia who is destined to fall and never be uprighted.  And from there, the nation of the house of Israel is destined to rise.

And it's also brought down in the Abudraham (Shabbat prayers) that צדקתך כהררי א-ל [which we say at Shabbat Minha] corresponds to the birthpangs of Mashiah wherein the Kingdom of Persia³ will be uprooted.

It's similarly brought down in Ibn Ezra (Daniel 12:1) that the angel Michael will rise up to befall the thrones of the Ishmaelite kings.

Also, Rashi brings down on that same verse that "Your nation will escape" means that the Kingdom of Aram⁴ [Syria] will be destroyed, and the Jewish people will escape.

We see that Rashi explains the time of trouble to be upon Aram, which is Damascus.

R' Moshe Levinger adds that יַעֲמֹד מִיכָאֵל הַשַּׂר הַגָּדוֹל has the gematria of 778.

(To be continued...)

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1) See also here.

2) Quoting Abravanel

3) However, it's very  possible that the text "מלכות פרס" was a censor's emendation as the original text seems to have been "מלכות הרשעה" as we find in this version and partially scribbled out in this version. Other censors simply omit the word "מלכות", which completely changes the meaning, such as here and here.  See also next footnote.

4) Here too, "Aram" may be a censor's doing as it's often in place of "Edom" just as I see the Mikra'ot Gedolot has it as "Gog".   On all censored texts, even though the emended text may be different than the original, there is some - albeit a lesser - significance that a version of the book contains the new text as that is how Hashem had wanted it known in the world.