Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita Speaks About Moshiach

Six months after 2 stroke attacks, former chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu Shlita is still hospitalized in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu Shlita's son, the Rabbi of the city of Safed, Harav Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita, said his father is studying and writing answers to urgent questions brought to him. Usually he communicates thru writing or just moves his lips without using his voice. A medical system is connected to him that prevents him to speak normally. He said that when asked about the condition of his father, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu smiles a wide smile and replied: "Baruch HaShem. It's getting better" "My father gives courage to physicians and nurses. Even if he is in pain and suffers, he says: 'thank G.od, it's all right'."

Speaking device is used for the Rav to speak. The Rav takes advantage to talk about the urgency to unite Am Israel in order to bring the complete redemption.

Rav Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita talked about the extraordinary cloak his father earned from the honorable Baba Sali, zs'kl, which the Baba Sali personally prepared to wear for the coming of Moshiach. Before the passing of the Baba Sali, he called Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, who was lovable to him, and handed him a few things including the Glima (cloak) and told him that with this cloak, he'll greet Moshiach Tzidkenu.

In the top pocket of the cloak are a few beard hairs of the revered Baba Sali and the Baba Sali told Rav Eliyahu before giving him the cloak, "Note that when you greet the Moshiach, these few beard hairs that were part of me will stay with you."

Another thing that is associated with the Moshiach's arrival are the 2 watches Rav Mordechai Eliyahu received from the Baba Sali. Baba Baruch Shlita, the Baba Sali's son, told Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita that his father came to him several times in a dream and instructed him to give the watches to Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita. The Baba Sali said that when the watches read 12:00, Moshiach is coming.

The Rav once said the clock is showing five minutes before twelve, and now the clock are at twelve. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, "We don't dare to open the clocks without my father, my teacher, Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita. But there is such a rumor - and we are really very close to the redemption. In any case, we need to pray that the Rav, HaRav Mordechai Tzemach ben Mazal Tov Shlita, will have complete recovery and his health improves so he can return home and personally see if the watches are showing 12:00 o'clock and announce the good news to us.

I asked him several times about the watches and he replied the verse: "שִׁמְרוּ מִשְׁפָּט וַעֲשׂוּ צְדָקָה כִּי קְרוֹבָה יְשׁוּעָתִי לָבוֹא וְצִדְקָתִי לְהִגָּלוֹת So says HaShem: Keep judgment and do justice: for My salvation is near to come, and My justice to be revealed.

Listen to Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita's blessing for the new year.

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