1000’s of Jewish Women Danced with Tambourines to Greet Moshiach

With Rabbi Reuven Feinstein’s Haskama

As a result of a social media misunderstanding, thousands of Jewish women worldwide got together two Tuesdays ago, 22 Adar I (February 26) for gatherings of song, prayer and dance, to help usher in Geula (the final redemption).

Last month, a short video that was created in 2012 inexplicably came back to life and started circulating again on WhatsApp. Rivka Malka Perlman, the creator of that original video, explained to veteran Israel News Talk Radio host, Tamar Yonah, how it all happened.

“There was a WhatsApp video that went out that was me and it was saying ‘Sisters! Unite in unity. G-d wants this unity. So many terrible things are happening and we’ve got to get together. February 26! Everybody!’”

“This video was not on YouTube and therefore there was no date on it. People thought that is was this February 26, so they started to say, ‘We want to come! We want to make a unity event in our community. We want to live stream your event!”

The only glitch was that the video was seven years old. There was no geula event being planned for February 2019.

“At the same time,” Perlman continued, “I had gotten a Divine message that right now we are so close to the End of Days. Each of us has a piece of Miriam in her, Miriam the prophetess who G-d guided the women in Egypt.

“She was the midwife there. She helped them. She encouraged them to beautify themselves. She taught them to make tambourines in anticipation of leaving Egypt. We don’t have a Miriam, but we have the women, and each of us has a spark of Miriam inside, and if we collaborate, that would be the ultimate unity.

“All of a sudden, the whole thing came together and it erupted. Yes! This is what I was talking about without realizing what I was saying. The women need to gather. When? Well, the Master Planner already planned it on a video – February 26.

“So right this minute, there are hundreds of women planning these Geula Gatherings all over the world. I’ve got women in Moscow, Sweden, the Five Towns, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem… I’m not sleeping! I’m sitting at my computer navigating all these people who are yearning for redemption.

“And now they are volunteering their gifts to create evenings of song, prayer and dance that we’re saying, ‘G-d,’ not just that we’re going to cry, “Oh, we want Moshiach,’ No! We’re going to be dancing. Because we know You’re bringing the geula. We’re not cool with this anymore. The women are demanding. And standing up and dancing and saying, ‘Now! Please, now! It’s a pretty exciting time.”

The efforts have been blessed by Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, son of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein who was one of this generation’s most renowned Jewish leaders. “It is with great pleasure that I give a bracha (blessing) to the women who are uniting in their efforts to bring nachas (pride) to Hashem (G-d) with Geula Gatherings. These tefillos (prayers) for Geula from the pure yearning hearts of the women are invaluable to Klal Yisroel (the Jewish people) and I give them a bracha for hatzlacha (success) in their endeavours.”

The Geula Gatherings are a piece of an even larger, more ambitious undertaking called The Redemption Project. Coordinated by Ziva Glanz who lives just outside of Jerusalem, The Redemption Project is planning a massive event in Jerusalem for April 7, 2019, which is the first of the Hebrew month of Nisan, a month that carries the energy of redemption.

“The goal is to declare on high that we are ready for Moshiach,” Glanz stated unambiguously. “The second goal is to create achdut (unity) which hastens the geula. People need hope as big as the fear they get reading through the daily news.”

Energies are coalescing. Perlman, Glanz and thousands of other women worldwide are directing  their intentions toward letting G-d know that we are ready for redemption. And even if, despite their efforts, Moshiach doesn’t come, they will have advanced the Messianic process by creating unity across the globe. ■