We think we run the world.

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We think we run the world.
We think our voice decides who wins.
Rabbi Shalom Landau שליט״א explains: That’s wrong.

Every ruler. Every government.
Every rise. Every fall.
It’s all His hand.

As Shlomo HaMelech said:
“רַבּוֹת מַחֲשָׁבוֹת בְּלֶב אִישׁ — וַעֲצַת ה׳ הִיא תָקוּם.”
(Many are the thoughts in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Hashem — that will stand.) (משלי י״ט כ״א)

We’re in exile — and for a reason.
Hashem told Avraham:
“יָדֹעַ תֵּדַע כִּי גֵר יִהְיֶה זַרְעֲךָ בְּאֶרֶץ לֹא לָהֶם.”
That wasn’t a curse — it was the covenant.

A deal between Hashem and His people:
that we would travel through the nations
and reveal Him wherever we go.
As Yeshayahu said:
“וּנְתַתִּיךָ לְאוֹר גּוֹיִם.”
I will make you a light to the nations.

Our mission in exile isn’t to protest — it’s to illuminate.
To live with faith, kindness, and Torah,
so the world sees who the real King is.

But every generation forgets.
We think redemption comes from influence, alliances, or power.
And every generation, Hashem reminds us —
it doesn’t.

Antisemitism rises.
It’s not random — it’s the alarm clock of exile.
It’s not to make us scream at them —
it’s to make us cry out to Him.
To pray.
To return.
To wake up.

And no task force, no law, no campaign can fix it —
because you can’t legislate away a spiritual system.
When Hashem sends the reminder,
the only answer is Teshuvah.

Like Mordechai and Esther —
we step forward with faith,
doing our hishtadlus,
not to beg for favor,
but to bring Hashem into the room.

Each of us holds a spark of that mission —
to turn exile into light.
That’s how redemption begins —
not with noise,
but with awareness.

Awareness that brings unity, prayer, and return —
the first spark of Geulah.

As King Shlomo says:
“לֶב מֶלֶךְ בְּיַד ה׳.”
(The heart of the king is in the hand of Hashem.) (משלי כ״א א׳)

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