Komentaryo sa Amos 9:15: Tze'enah Ure'enah

“And I will plant them on their soil, nevermore to be uprooted, etc.” [9:15]. I will plant them on their land and they will never be expelled again, so says God, your God.

The Talmud writes in [tractate Sanhedrin] chapter ten, about the verse “I will set up again the fallen booth of David” [9:15]. Rabbi Johanan said that in the days when the Messiah will come, the number of scholars will shrink. The people will have great troubles. Before the first trouble ends, the next trouble will come behind it. Our sages said that in the time that the Messiah will come, the young will shame the old and the elders will stand up before youths. The daughter will quarrel with her mother, the son-in-law with his father-in-law, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law. The son will not be ashamed before his father. The Messiah will come only when there are few sages in the world. There must be so little money in the wallet that a penny will not be found. The Messiah will only come when Israel will despair of the Messiah. That is, they will say that the Messiah will not come. Rabbi Zeira, when he found rabbis talking about the Messiah, he said to them, do not cause that the Messiah should not come soon, since we learned that three things come when one does not remember or think about them. One is the Messiah. The second is a found article. The third is a scorpion that bites a person.⁵B. Sanhedrin, 97a; Yalkut Shimoni, Amos, Remez, 549.

We should be worthy of the Messiah and the travails. Amen.