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SomeJew- ignoring the unnecessary personal attacks… my point is simply that we daven to return to EY and Hashem has enabled that to happen. We thank Hashem for EY and Hashem has enabled us to utilize that gift. It takes a certain level of cognitive dissonance to pray those prayers with genuine kavana while ignoring our ability to make those prayers come true and blinding ourselves to the probability that this may be Hashem’s way of answering those tefilos. Sure, we can come up with excuses, we didn’t mean to return to EY by plane, we meant flying through the air in a miraculous fashion. We didn’t mean that we want to return to EY now, we meant at some point in the near or far future after Mashiach comes. I know it sounds like Hashem is giving us what we want, but it’s not really what we want and not really what we’re praying for.
But ultimately, it’s all an excuse. Moving to EY is hard. Probably harder than any other mitzvah. So we just convince ourselves that it’s not the right time, continuing to pray for something that hasn’t happened yet, and go about our lives in Chul pretending to yearn to leave.
