<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Chafetz Chaim raises the classic concern how the</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">latest generations consider meriting the advent of</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Mashiach? If previous generations who were</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">undoubtedly more pious than ours did not merit</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Mashiach how could our shameful generation merit</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">him? Chafetz Chaim answers that, on the contrary, no</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">generation ever qualified for Mashiach as much as</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">ours. He explains that in previous times, mitzva</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">observance was, basically, a foregone conclusion. It</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">did not require endless self sacrifice and had therefore</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">had relatively limited value. In our days, however,</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">foreign influences are so rampant that even basic</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">mitzva observance requires tremendous devotion and</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">sacrifice. In present times, we may add, morality has</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">fallen so low that attaining any level of purity and self</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">negation is a tremendous accomplishment. In this light</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">every mitzva has such great value that we, above all,</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">display Hashem's greatest glory. Hashem undoubtedly</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">tells His angels, "Look at My people who manage to</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">remain moral and pure even in their corrupt and free</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">thinking environment." "Can anyone bring Me greater</span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">glory than them?!" </span></font><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">ri</span></font></div>
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