Like Dreamers - Rabbi Doniel Staum

every shabbos and every yantif at the end of our sudahs we sing when hashem will return all the captives would see on when the final redemption will finally be heralded and arrive we will have been like dreamers what does that mean will have been like dreamers so the mitsudos explains it will become like it was all like a bad dream once the googler comes will look back and say wow it was like a nightmare was all like a bad dream my bubby allah shalom would say that when she would reflect back on her experiences in siberia and escaping and she would say in later years when she would reflect back on it she said it's hard to imagine that that was really me it's almost you know it was like a dream did that really happen all of those travails and difficulties really happened to me but the targum has a different explanation he says we will have been like ill people who have finally been healed it's a beautiful idea in the safer community of the three weeks from kamanovich he writes in there i believe it's the author's grandfather the challenge grandfather and he says that it was a yid who people say never miss the night of saying for the morning over the hormone and he said the following muscle he said there was a person who worked very hard used to sell sand this was at a time when sand was uh he needed commodity they would use it for different things and he would sell sand every morning he would go to the marketplace and scream sand sand wants to buy sand it was difficult job he didn't make that much money but that's what he needed for a parnosa to support his wife and his children one morning he's standing out in the marketplace and he's screaming like usual sand sand someone comes over to him and says wait a minute look in your bag that's not sand that's gold dust that's very valuable and he runs home and he tells his wife look at that it's not sand it's cold dust we're rich and he sells it and he buys some bread and buys some food and then he sells more of it and all of a sudden he's able to buy a mansion and suddenly his life is turned around and he can't believe it he's so excited and then all of a sudden he hears him in the back of his mind he says and it's his wife again go to marketplace so late oh it was a dream do you're the such a good dream he doesn't want to leave the dream behind he jumps up and he runs off to show he's late to daveny then he runs off to the marketplace it's a tough day for him but that dream but then the next night the dream happens again and happens a few times a recovering dream what a wonderful dream every single time he's dreaming he's sleeping on wonderful beds and he's wealthy and things are comfortable for him and then one day he's out in the marketplace and he's selling the saint and someone says to them why are you selling the sand you have gold dust over there and he looks and he says yeah it's cold dust and really is but maybe i'm just dreaming again this must be a dream and so he runs off he comes home and he shows it to his wife and he says is this called us in my dream and then their children come home and the children look and they say this gold dust that's amazing and finally he realizes it's not a dream because if everybody sees it and everybody's telling it the same thing it's not a dream anymore it's real censor of komanovic he says throughout the goliaths throughout the difficult dark long goalless the night of ghosts we've had different times we're waiting for and there's been other mashiachs who've come back was starting the time of the gemara already and himself he thought and so many others throughout the years and are we dreaming is this real every single time in the past when this has happened we thought it can't really be is this real until was your move then we'll realize that indeed it was a dream until now but then we will realize that indeed we have been healed that the dark days are over and that's how he brings together both of these ideas where you can hold him like a dream like those who are sick to be healed it's a dream the kula right now is a dream but we know that it's a dream that will be fulfilled very soon and as we mourn the base during these weeks as we approach tisha buff the gemara reassures us those who mourn for it those who hold on to that dream will be able to see the day when they will look back and say look at it the other way is a train it'd be very soon