[Avodah] What is galut

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Jan 15, 2008 5:07 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> Both the four leshonos of ge'ulah as well as Dani'el's statue are
> explained in terms of 4 goliyos: Bavel, Paras uMadai, Yavan and Edom.
>
> The fact that galus Yavan occured while we were in Israel ties in well
> to many vertlach told about Chanukah -- that Purim was an existential
> threat, but Chanukah was a threat to Yahadus, not our physical
> wellbeing.
>
> Galus is defined first and foremost as the absence of the Shechinah,
> not the absence of Jews from Israel.
>
> ..
> SheTir'u baTov!
> -micha


FWIW that is how I explained that  the 420 years of Bayyis Sheini might have
taken place over about 586 physical years because there were "times-out"
such as galus Yavan in the interim that stopped the "clock"  so to speak.


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