Moshe Feiglin draws a direct connection between the Torah portions of Vayeshev and Miketz and the present-day Jewish reality in Israel in a recent video taken on the Temple Mount.
Key points:
– The Torah shows that G-d often directs history through dreams:
– Joseph’s own dreams lead to the descent of Jacob’s family to Egypt and the eventual formation of the Jewish nation there.
– Joseph’s rise to power and the salvation of his family come through interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams.
– In other words, dreams are not trivial; they are a serious tool through which the Holy One runs the world.
– We too are “dreamers.” For decades people mocked, belittled, or tried to suppress the great Jewish dream of returning to Zion, praying on the Temple Mount, and rebuilding the Holy Temple.
– Yet we never abandoned the dream. We remained faithful to it, took it seriously, and persisted, and today we are witnessing it coming true before our eyes:
– Hundreds of thousands of Jews ascend the Temple Mount in purity (“ברוב עם הדרת מלך”).
– We can already pray and bow down there openly, something unthinkable a generation ago.
– But that is still not enough. The full dream, the real dream, is the actual rebuilding of the Third Temple in our days.
– Therefore, says Feiglin, we must always remember:
The strongest weapon the Jewish people possess is not tanks or missiles; it is the dream.
As long as we treat the dream with utmost seriousness, stay loyal to it, never forget it, and persist until its complete fulfillment, we will merit to see the Beit HaMikdash rebuilt speedily in our days.
Amen.
