Sir Moses Montefiore was a religious philanthropist who worked tirelessly on behalf of his brethren worldwide, and especially in the Land of Israel. He dispensed large sums toward charitable causes and founded numerous establishments and institutions. Sir Montefiore traveled far and wide to visit Jewish communities and interceded on their behalf before rulers such as Queen Victoria, Czar Alexander the Second, the Ottoman Sultan, and the pope. He lived to the ripe old age of 100, passing away on 16 Menachem Av 5645 (1885).
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Within each of us is a point where all of us meet. And within that point is a place where we are all one simple essence. That is the spark of the Moshiach within each of us.
If so, the person who we will call Moshiach does not need to convince us to follow. He only needs to awaken that sleeping moshiach within each of us. And then we will look and say, “I know this tzaddik. He is the spark I feel awake within me.”
That is when we will all be liberated.
We and all the creation.