What we are in the midst of now in the Holy Land is difficult to describe as “the beginning of the Redemption” (atchalta d’Geulah) but
it certainly represents great kindness.
[We have gone] from one extreme to the other—
from the extreme of suffering, the destruction of six million of our brethren, to
the opposite extreme—the settling of our people in our state in the Holy Land . . . .
Woe unto he who comes to judgment and is still so blind so as not to see something as clear as this
(Michtav Me’Eliyahu, vol. 3, p. 352).
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