posted at Mystical Paths

If you become spiritually sensitive, as you go about you may start to notice you feel people's makifim. As people live, a sense of, for want of a better word, life force eminates from them. The more people together, the more energy, the makifim of people start to react off each other. If a group of people are focused on a common matter, the energy itself focuses in common. This is why achdut is so important, how a minyan opens heavenly doors, and why we say that 600,000 Jews together can bring the Geulah instantly (but that's a side point).

Today, if you wander through Jerusalem or other parts of Israel, people have stopped eminating. There's no life force. They're (spiritually) dead. There is no life in their eyes anymore. Now and then you run across someone who is awake, they look up and see you are also, and life force comes together.

But the spirituality is draining away, even people who were alive just 6 months ago no longer are.

Something is wrong.

We spoke to a begger at Kever Rashbi (the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, zt"l, in Meron). He was alive. He asked, "where did you come from?". "Jerusalem" we answered. He said, "there's still people alive there???"

Perhaps the word awake applies better than alive. Eyes are closed, the veil of the illusion has fallen...

The beggers are praying for Am Yisroel. The comfortable are those at risk.

The beggers say, "any day now, any day now", they're just waiting for it. One old man leaned over and said, "Moshiach's been here, we've seen him!" We asked, "who is he?" The old man just laughed at us and wouldn't talk to us further.

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