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Jun 3, 2008

musings while waiting at the airport

I was at the airport yesterday picking up my wife upon her return from a brief trip abroad.

It took some time from the landing of the flight until she made it out through luggage, passport control and customs, and during that time I was in the Arrivals lounge observing the various people waiting for loved ones.

I noticed that every single person was waiting and anticipating the moment their arriving friend or relative would step out through those doors. People position themselves in the best possible location they can find that gives them the best view of the doors, and beyond the doors for the fleeting moments they are open, so they can see their relative at the first possible moment they are see-able.

They jockey for position and they wait there. Then every time someone walks through the doors, everyone is straining to see if it is their relative or maybe their relative is behind them and you can catch a glimpse deep in the Custoims room while the doors are still open.

Then finally your relatives/friend steps out from behind the doors. Most people go running to give them a hug and kiss. Some play it cooler and wait until he/she comes down the lane and steps out of the main view of the public.

The tension while waiting, the anticipation we have, for our arriving spouse/child/cousin/friend, even if they were just on a brief trip and we had seen each other a week before, or if it was a long trip and we had seen each other only 15 years before, or never before, I think that anticipation is what we are supposed to be feeling towards Mashiach.

If we would be waiting for Mashiach with the same level of anticipation as we do for our relatives coming from a brief trip abroad (no easy task), I think he would already have arrived.
If we would consider that Mashiach's flight has landed and we are just waiting for him to step out through those doors, he would probably step out pretty quickly.

11 comments:

  1. does this mean you were the one not anticipating your wifes arrival so vigorously?????

    Ok we know you missed her. I still wanna know if PB was the babysitter the other night.

    glad she's home safe, it was nice to hear from her on her trip.

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  2. ....brought to you by Chabad Lubavitch of Nachal Noam

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  3. anon - want to put on tefillin?

    shaya - I plead the 5th. But nothing about what I said indicates I was not one of those waiting in anticipation. Of course I was.

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  4. i thought this was going to be comment comparing our arrivals with arrivals in Chu"l. Because I think most people waiting to pick up are taxi drivers with little signs. At least that's my impression of most major NY airports.

    but great post nonetheless (much deeper than mine)

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  5. welcome back commenter Abbi. Mazel tov on the birth of your child. I hope all is well with you guys..

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  6. Actually... it was the real anticipation of mashiach prior to the destruction of Gush Katif that made the destruction so hard.

    We prayed, we cried, said tehillim, tried to do tikkun for the dibat ha'aretz and the chet hameraglim, tzedaka, protests, votes, and the list goes on and on. You could feel the anticipation and expectation that the skies would open and deliverance would come... but alas it was not to be so.

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  7. "Musings"? Are you trying to horn in on Gil's action?

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  8. anon - good point. maybe that was because it was just a certain crowd, even one could say a very small crowd (a few tens of thousands of people), but not the general crowds. Your average person did not feel it.

    Yoni - he did link to me the other day, so I guess I was inspired....

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  9. You didn't know?

    Mashiach's here already.

    The shabak have him locked up in administrative detention.

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  10. Jameel - lol. I thought that was Reb Nati!!

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