Everyone wants Moshiach

I had a long week, so here's a

Guest post from Happywithhislot.

A recent conversation with my 7 yr old daughter.

d - daughter
h - happywithhislot

d: singing "everyone wants moshiach, everyone wants, everyone wants moshiach, bchol yom sheyavo....."

h: so what's moshiach?

d: moshiach? moshiach is when everyone dead will come back alive and there will be no bad people and we will all be happy

h: really? Why will we be happy?

d: because we will learn torah all day

h: will learning torah all day make you happy?

d: well I don't really want to learn all day, we will also get to watch TV,.

h: do you think you can watch TV when moshiach comes?

d: well we can watch TV on our days off.

h: hmmmm...

This conversation got me wondering. What's in it for women when moshiach comes. According to the charedim they cant learn torah anyway. Whets going to keep them busy?

Anyway, its interesting. My daughter doesn't really believe that learning torah all day is going to be fun. That was a very honest assessment. When us adults think (thought) of Moshiach, do (did) we really believe that learning all day will make us happy?

Of course, you've heard this all before, its this very fact that people point to when complaining about our life in golus. Many of us are so happy in Golus. Even those who aren't, cant imagine that learning Torah all day is prize enough.

Now this becomes especially true when you have Rabbi Wachsman announcing at the Agudah Convention on Blogs that we cant even begin to understand the Chasam Sofer, let alone Rashi or Moshe Rabbenu.

So we will be stuck with the current crop of mostly mediocre maggidei shiur. That sounds like HELL to me. Maybe it is. Maybe Hell is having to listen to your worst rebbi give shiur, over and over again.

Talking about the Agudah Convention on Blogs and the undermining of Torah Leadership. Its not the first time the Internet has been attacked. A common refrain you hear in the Jewish periodicals is the "dangers of the Internet".

My rabbi spoke about women who delude themselves when their husband spends time on the computer getting the "west coast scores". of course, what is being discussed is the dangers of the shmutz that is on the Internet.

I found this interesting because typically, if you tell someone about something that he shouldn't do, the instinct is to at least take a peek.

So why the big uproar over the shmutz on the Internet?

Then another genie got out of the bottle. The Agudah was accused of covering up molestation crimes, they couldn't just ignore it. They devoted a convention to the topic of blogs that undermine the authority of the Torah Leaders.

Yet they aren't talking about the biggest danger, the danger to Torah itself. Why?

I think the answer is because if they did, and their brainwashed bochrum or baal habatim saw this tumah, their eyes and minds would forever be tarnished. Of course Im talking about the skeptic blogs.

The danger is not the evidence these skeptic blogs present. Its the attitude.
The attitude that you can think for yourself. So they attack blogs that undermine the authority of torah leadership. They cant tolerate people thinking for themselves.

I know, there are yeshivish lurkers out there saying, look how full of himself he is. An attitude I must say is typical. You see, the yeshiva world doesn't equip their bochrim with facts. There aren't any facts, so how could they equip them with it. But you need to give the bochrim something. So they give them shtuchs. And boy do those shtuchs feel good. Nothing like a good shtuch to ignore the facts. Better the bochrim be told tall tales of the Medrash than critical thinking skills.

Orthoprax recently made the point that our yeshiva system teaches our bochrim to be smug about their religion, without the tools to make serious arguments of logic. I believe the yeshiva/charedi world is coasting. They got the power, they name the Gedolim, so they don't need to really work it anymore.

Anyway, my Rav notes how woman don't know what their husbands are really doing on the Internet. And I've heard from fellow bloggers who looked for ways to avoid their wives finding out the real activity they do on the Internet. And I'm jealous.

My wife sees me blogging and commenting all the time. She has yet to ask me what am I doing. Now granted, She is busy. But I would like a little suspicion.
So I came out and asked her, why don't you ask me what I'm doing?
The answer? She doesn't care. Should She? I told her yes. She said leave me alone, I'm busy.

Sheesh.
Well I will have my revenge, my darling wife, just wait till Moshiach comes. You will be bored as hell.

Everyone wants Moshiach, Everyone wants, Everyone Wants Moshiach, Bchol Yom Sheyavo....!

*note that there are shittos that hold clothing will grow on tree when moshiach comes. Obviously that means we wont be working, so I think its fair to say we will be learning all day.