Rebbetzen Tziporah

 Dear friends,

Some daf gemaras are abstract. Others land like a hammer.

The daf just a few days ago (avoda zara b) says that of all of the nations that we encountered along the way, two will be there at the very end of history. They are mentioned (not hinted at – mentioned) as Paras and Edom. Persia and Edom, the ancestors of the Western nations. Today these two are easily identified as Iran and America. That’s not homiletics. It’s Gemara. It’s prophecy playing out in real time.

Right now, we are living through something that doesn’t belong to the news cycle. We’re living through a structural shift in history. The headlines aren’t random—they’re revealing. The Torah’s lens doesn’t just interpret the world. It exposes it.

There is a reason the Jewish people have never been content with exile, even when things were good. It’s because we are wired for a conclusion. For the world to finish what it started in the first six days of creation. That is not poetic longing. It’s design. The war we’re seeing is not a detour—it’s the road. It’s where it was always heading.

People think of Torah as a moral system. That’s not wrong—but it’s not the whole picture. Torah is a manual for activating potential. Human potential, national potential, cosmic potential. That’s why Adam is told not only to guard the garden, but to work it—to develop it. But without Torah, that instinct to build can collapse into destruction. The Torah doesn’t just channel the urge to create. It disciplines it. It humanizes it. It lets it return to the source of all the inner longing for harmony that we a born with, Hashem Himself.

We are now being told—gently, unmistakably—that the door is open.

Not every generation gets that message so clearly. We do.

It’s not subtle anymore. The illusions of safety, of progress, of stability—they’re cracking. And the cracks are not random either. They're strategic. Every break in the facade is an opening. Every shock is a summons.

But here’s the challenge: open doors still require you to walk through them.

The real danger right now is not spiritual fatigue—it’s distraction. It’s missing the moment. It’s treating these weeks, these months, as just another cycle of crisis-and-recovery, instead of what they are: an inflection point. A convergence of Torah, history, and human potential.

This is not a call to do more. It’s a call to become more.

Not “be inspired.” Not “feel uplifted.” That language is too soft.

This is a moment to recalibrate your operating system. To learn with more precision. To daven with more honesty. To do mitzvos as acts of strategy, not habit. To realize that the dream we’ve carried for thousands of years is not theoretical—and that we are not spectators.

If we don’t act now, then when would we?

The Talmud told us what’s coming. The headlines confirm it. Hashem is not hiding His hand. But what we do with that clarity—that’s on us.

The future is not waiting for us to be ready. It’s happening.

Let’s move.

Love,

Tziporah

 

 

**We Are a Generation of Suddenly (Pitom)**

 

Father, we are a generation of suddenly (pitom),

A generation that understands the 'core,' the atomic bomb...

A generation trained in changes and transformations,

A generation that knows challenging times...

 

Suddenly (pitom) we wake in the morning, and there's no school—

There's a strike on Iran, history of years...

What suddenly (pitom)? We knew nothing of the plans...

Trying to grasp what's happening...

 

We enter the routine of war,

Alert through nights, and days without pause,

We even get advance warning for the siren...

We go down to shelters (if there are any...), hearts heavy with dread...

 

Twelve days of war,

To You we lift our eyes in prayer,

And here again suddenly (pitom)—tomorrow there's school...

As usual, routine! Adults and children...

 

Father, we are a generation of suddenly (pitom),

A generation that knows yesterday is not today...

A generation trained in changes and transformations,

A generation passing through challenging times...

 

We ask of You, we lift our eyes,

We plead now to witness Jerusalem being built,

Merciful Father, Your people are like a lion—

We beg that this is how You'll bring the Mashiach.

 

Soon, suddenly (pitom), without more sorrow and wars,

We're used to changes, no more introductions needed...

We've experienced, we've learned how times change...

We're waiting already, waiting already for years...

 

We want to suddenly (pitom) hear the shofar's call,

We want to suddenly (pitom) wake to an illuminated world,

We're waiting for suddenly (pitom), for a city built on its hill,

For we are a generation of suddenly (pitom), a generation of redemption.

 

And He will come, suddenly (pitom). For He promised.

And soon, there will be only good, the Mashiach will come.

 

*Translated from Hebrew*