SACRIFICE

Sacrifice
What is the significance of sacrifice?Why do we seem to revere the concept even while we fear it?
Sacrifice reminds us of our mortality. The demand to sacrifice or to set aside for others seems to be a core value that many talk about and honor but few actually do.
So why talk about something that seems impractical? The answer lies in the need that man feels
for perfection. Not only personal development but the repair of the whole world. We feel at one point or another that there is something amiss and that somehow someone shall lead us to this end to human suffering, to the respect for all of G-D's creatures,for a world that shall be in total harmony.
We recognize that the person leading this effort will have to struggle and sacrifice his own aspirations for the good of the whole.
So that's it. The impetus for sacrifice is the desire to correct the world. At its' root is the yearning for Messiah . This is coupled with the hope that man will regain immortality in the process.
Sacrifice; We see in it the roots of our salvation, the means to restore our relationship with G-D.
Hence the devoted following of Mr. Obama .
However, when a person has never really sacrificed as Obama has never done one cannot but be unimpressed. If this be The Messiah I don't want to be helped.
In the Talmud the Messiah is described as a leper filled with the wounds inflicted upon him for the sake of our people , for the world. There is a reason Isiah 53 describes a suffering servant.
Otherwise no reasonable thinking person will follow.
Sacrifice, the ingredient necessary for the Moshiach. Let us hope that the sacrifice of those 8 beautiful children shall be the last sacrifice in the quest of mankind for salvation!