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1 yehoshua on 2010 01 22

Somewhere it says that we will know Maschiach is here when we look at a stranger and see our brother.  Then, too, darkness will give way to dawn.

2 TH on 2010 01 22

See Igros Moshe OC 4:6 second half of the teshuva

3 HA Arnevet on 2012 01 27

"When you can see your brother”
OK - it’s 5 a.m. and I must be at work by 7 a.m.
Alot HaShahar is 6:38.
I turn on electric lights and see my bride and my children, and have sufficient light to read from the sidur.
My choice: follow the rabbis - not the Torah, but the rabbis - and wait until 6:38 (and in the end have to skip the prayers) or don tallit & tefillin and say the prayers at 5:45 a.m. by electric light.
MOST Jews today are NOT farmers working by the light of the sun.

4 Shalom on 2012 01 27

In fact the Rabbis suggest as you have!
hence the “Korach Minyan” in many Shuls where people would not get to work on time if they waited until Alot. I think Rabbi Haber was pointing out how the Rabbi’s were explaining the Torah, at a time when most Jews were farmer’s and waited for the light of day to begin work. And the message holds true today.
Good Shabbos!

5 Deborah Raice Fox on 2012 01 27

What a beautiful message! If only we would all try to see our brother. Mazal Tov!

6 Deborah Mayer on 2012 01 27

BS"D

Yashar koach!  May we always be able to hear, listen, emphathize, disagree respectfully, display great understanding becausae each one of us has a spark of the Borei in us and must be treated with the greatest sensitivity.