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Yankel Berel, the three oaths are learned from Divrei Kabbala, which means that they are obviously not a new Mitzvah. They are a warning. That would explain why the Rambam doesn’t bring it as a Halachah. It’s a Hangaga but not a Halacha per se.
In his Iggeres Teiman we see him referring to it, and we also see how he refers to it. He calls it ‘advice from Shlomo Hamelech’. You can’t dismiss it as Agadaic, which was never meant to be dismissed, buy that’s another story. The Gemara treats it as any other Halachic discussion with back and forth Limudim from the Psukim. And it comes in where the actual action of going up to EY is being judged.
As to the OP, we can’t ignore that Moshiach is very near. After all we have the Gemara in Sanhedrin 98:
???? ??? ??? ??? ?? ?? ????? ??? ????? (?????? ??, ?) ???? ??? ????? ????? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ???’.
The Gemara is saying that if you see the land giving fruit you know that the ?? is near.
I don’t think there’s a natural way out. Although it is possible to imagine natural solutions, where the Iranian government gets overthrown and Iran reconnects with Israel, and the “Palestinians” are de-programmed over two decades etc. We all know that this won’t happen. I do not believe that the situation will resolve itself before Moshiach. In the contrary, this is all a lead-up.
We are inside a thick, interesting novel but we have no clue what’s in the next page and it’s written so well that nobody can guess the end.
