Everything that happens in the creative process of creation, is not by chance, there is an order and wisdom to everything. Moreover, there is a process as to how things play out. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97) teaches us:
Six thousand years is the world. Two thousand years for the development of the world; two thousand years for the development of Torah, and two thousand years for the development of Mashiach. After the six thousand years, will be a time of Tikkun and Geula.
In the world we live in, we are bombarded with different ideas and events at a dizzying rate, we are tempted to look at the big picture and try to figure out where we are in the developmental process and when the process will bring Mashiach, perhaps and hopefully, even now.
However, it is in fact more important to focus on the present, on the here and now. When you focus on the present, you are left feeling empowered and able to accomplish that much more in terms of the daily grind.
We may look into ourselves and try t…
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