ARE LAKEWOOD MANSIONS A LIE? The Shocking Contradiction Real Estate Agents Won't Talk About! (LONGING FOR MOSHIACH)

The Moral Tension Of High Prices

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How could Lakewood's realtors and real estate salesmen actually sell Lakewood real estate with a clean and pure conscience when the prices are in the millions? In neighborhoods, some houses trade hands at more than four to five hundred dollars per square foot? The sprawling mansions that myself included, or any home for that matter, that we sell to people for them to build their Jewish homes, there seems to be a big conflict, a question that we have to ask ourselves.

Six Questions We Face After Life

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The Gemara says in Mesekhlash Shabbos that you are going to be asked six things after you pass away. Did you try to become smart and wise? Did you try to build a Jewish family? Did you do business honestly and with integrity and important for our discussion? Is CPC Lyeshua? Did you long for the redemption? Did you wait earnestly for Hashem to send the Mashiach for us to build the third base A Mikda? You have to ask or listen to the Hashem's question and answer honestly. Do you truly long for Mashiach? And furthermore, the Rambam, his 12th of his 13 creeds, is do you believe with complete faith about the coming of Mashiach? And hopefully we will answer yes to both of those questions.

Settling Comfortably Versus Longing

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But how is it that with that thought in mind of longing to be in Jerusalem, that people can open up shop and just settle down here, pay $500 per square foot of Lakewood real estate with a big pool and a big yard, with an acre of property near a shoal, set themselves up with a job, with a place for the in-laws, kind of just settling down happy and gallus. Doesn't that completely contradict se Pisa Li Yeshua and Animamim beemuna shalema beviasamoshiach? What's the answer?

Rav Nasan Wachtfogel’s Practical Answer

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Rab Nasan Vachtfoigo, the Mashkiach of Ishivas BMG, one of the first Talmudim of Reb Iron Cutler, one of the first 19 boys in base Medrish Kavo, a Talmud of Kelm, and somebody that was the Mushkiach Ruchani, the spiritual dean of Shiva's BMG for more than 50 years. He explains this question. Somebody asked him, how can I buy real estate? How can I buy an investment property in America if I need to move to RIT Strell? And he said, The answer is because you need to long for Mashiach and you need to pray that it should come, and you should be ready to drop everything as soon as you hear that it's arrived. But that doesn't mean that you don't try to steige and grow and be a productive, happy Jew in exile. Strive, invest, build a Jewish home. But should you hear and should you finally get the news that you've been waiting for that Mashiach's here, you have to be willing to say, I'm gonna sell this property. I'm going to Eric Cesarle. There's more to my life. You have to stay in the proper mindset of where everything fits in the grand scheme of things. Why did Ribnelsan Mayor Wachtwagel Zacharn Labracha say that if we dive in? I think there's a tremendous wealth of Chachmah

Grit In Exile With Readiness

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here. You see, when you really badly want something, you want a shiddach, you want a child, you want to be wealthy, you want to be a Tamil Chakam. It doesn't mean that you rip up your life and just don't become a productive member of society and just try only to get married or only, only to make a million dollars. What it means is to be an honest, happy, building, pragmatic Jew with grit and with fortitude that's stuck in a situation that they don't want to be in. It doesn't matter, it doesn't affect their work ethic. And they continue to be a productive Jew in society. They continue to be emotionally happy and stable and do the best that they can, and they still long and pray for the grand reveal and the yeshua, and those aren't contradictory clauses and ideas. We long for the yeshua, but we still need to be happy, healthy, normal adults that stag and serve Hashem in this current setting. And we want so badly for everyone's Yeshua's. But that doesn't mean that we don't show a bit of grit and industriousness and some fortitude in being the best that we can right now in the current situation. That's how you invest in Lakewood real estate. That's how you settle down and build a family, and that's how you can answer yes, that I really want the Mashiach to come, and I believe with complete faith that it is coming, because as soon as it arrives, and we pray for its arrival, I'm ready to drop everything, the bat of an eyelash, and move to greet Mashiach and the Eritesur.