I recently met a woman who moved to Russia from Lakewood, in order to do Kiruv.
When I asked her if they planned to stay here, she said no way!
"We only agreed to come because we knew it would only be for 2 years.. We could never even imagine moving here for "life"!
"We're not like you Chabad Shluchim who can just buy one way tickets.."
But the truth is, that we don't either believe in buying one way tickets!
True, we cannot set the date for our return ticket, and there is no way we will leave our post until we fully complete our mission, but our plan is not to stay on Shlichus forever, Gd forbid!
Our goal is not to create an amazing army of Shluchim around the world.
Our goal is not to be on Shlichus our whole life, or to make our city our permanent home.
Our goal is only to bring about the coming of Moshiach, and return to Eretz Yisroel!
And all of our Shlichus is only the means to that end.
This week we read about Yaakov's going on Shlichus to Charan, the lowest, most unholy place on earth.
We see how successful he was not only in keeping strong himself and raising a beautiful Yiddishe family there, but also in influencing and transforming the entire city.
But even though it took 20 years, and even though he was so successful, he never let himself feel comfortable there.
He worked day and night with total devotion, but the second his mission was done and he had a chance to leave, he took everyone and everything that he acquired with him, and quickly headed back home to Eretz Yisroel.
We too are ready to run the moment our Shlichus is done!
And after all that we have accomplished collectively, throughout all these years, there is no doubt that that moment is really near!!
לע״נ ר׳ מנחם מאיר בן ר׳ חיים משה יהודה הכהן ע״ה
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