Rav Kanievsky and Mashiach, take two

Remember a short while back I linked to an amazing story with Rav Chaim Kanievsky? He supposedly had said that Armageddon was coming by Hanukkah time and Mashiach was on the way...

It turns out the story was not true. Even though the author said he had verified it, he had only verified it second hand, and there was a mis-communication. Turns out it never really happened.

When he tried to verify the story after getting probably thousands of hits from different people linking to his post and sending it out by email, he found out that Rav Kanievsky never said such a thing. Not only that, but Rav Kanievsky said "Never trust anything said in my name."

Also, there was an article in this week's Mishpacha newspaper about it.

The story was going around. not just in the blogs, but it seems all over the place, especially in the Haredi world. As a matter of fact, my daughter told us the story at the table on shabbos, saying "Did you hear Rav Elyashiv said there will be a war and we will be in the bomb shelters on Hanukkah?". I said, first of all the story was with Rav Kanievsky, and second of all, Rav Kanievsky said it is not true...

Anyway - the article in the Mishpacha said that Rav Kaniebsky said the story never happened, and that he never said there would be a war by Hanukkah, etc. Another thing interesting he said, with a smile, was that he does not make such predictions, but he does say every day that he expects and awaits Mashiachs arrival... "b'chol yom she'yavo"