Coronavirus or What Is G-d Trying To Tell Us?
As you know, more and more countries are getting infected with the CoronaVirus, and it is not slowing down. The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named this virus COVID-19. Why did they choose this name?
The Sages tell us that parents become prophets when they choose a name for their child, since they name the child with the name G-d wants him to have. I believe the same thing happened here: the World Health Organization has chosen a name that G-d wants, since He is trying to tell us something.
But what exactly is He trying to tell us?
Covid-19 is written in Hebrew as: 19–כוביד starts with letters כו - Kaf & Vav that have a Gematria or a numerical value of 26, as in the Tetragrammaton - YHVH, and the word ends with יד - Yud & Dalet or word Yad which means Hand - with a numerical value of 14. Together, both words mean: the Hand of G-d. In the middle, there's the letter ב—Bet, which has a numerical value of 2. So, if we add all these values together —26+14+2=42 —it represents a powerful Kabbalistic 42-letter name of G-d.
In Exodus 8:12-15, we have a similar reference, but to a finger of G-d: "And the Lord said to Moshe, Say to Aharon, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may turn into lice throughout all the land of Mizrayim. And they did so; for Aharon stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Mizrayim. And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice on man and beast. Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of G-d: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said."
Back then, G-d showed His Might to Pharaoh and the whole of Egypt. But during this process, Pharaoh hardened his heart every time, and at the end, he lost it all.
This time, G-d is showing His Might to the whole world, and it is not pretty.
But what should we do? There's only one way to stop it, and it is a Teshuvah - to return to G-d, to keep Shabbat, Torah laws, learn the laws of slandering, and to make G-d our Master and the driving force of our life instead of wealth and a comfortable lifestyle. The nation of Israel must keep its end of the bargain—we must fulfill what we promised when we accepted the Torah at Mount Sinai.
The same thing goes for the non-Jews, who have their own set of laws to keep.
These are the times of the Mashiach, and G-d will do everything to bring the end of days events and prophecies to happen, whether we are ready for them or not.
DO NOT repeat the mistake of Pharaoh and Harden Your Heart, a lot is at stake, and we are all in this together.
The destruction of Egypt happened with The Finger of G-d, imagine what may happen to our World from the blow of The Hand of G-d...?? Let's work together, do our parts, and make this World a better place for all of Humanity.
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Shmuel Katanov
