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A man places a note in the cracks of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel (Shutterstock).
Afterward, the Israelites will turn back and will seek Hashem their God and David their king—and they will thrill over Hashem and over His bounty in the days to come.
Hosea 3:5 (The Israel Bible™)

Hear the verse in Hebrew

a-KHAR ya-SHU-vu b’-NAY yis-ra-AYL u-vik-SHU et a-do-NAI e-lo-hay-HEM v’-AYT
da-VEED mal-KAM u-fa-kha-DU el a-do-NAI v’-el tu-VO b’-a-kha-REET ha-ya-MEEM

Maintaining Hope for a Bright Future and Days of Redemption

Hoshea promises that despite the period of punishment and separation, ultimately Israel will return and seek Hashem, their God and David, their king. He says this will take place b’acharit ha’yamim ( ), translated here as ‘in the days to come,’ but often translated as ‘the end of days.’ However, as Prime Minister Menachem Begin pointed out in a speech to the delegates of the United Nations Disarmament Conference in 1982, “Acharit hayamim does not mean ‘the last days’ or ‘the end of days.’ On the contrary! The key word, acharit, is a synonym for a bright future. It means hatikva, ‘hope,’ as we find in Jeremiah (29:11): latet lachem acharit v’tikva ( ) — ‘to give to you a future and a hope,’ or, ‘to give you a hopeful future.’ Acharit can also mean progeny, as we find in Ezekiel (23:25), and in progeny there is future. Hence, b’acharit hayamim really means the days of redemption, when mankind shall enjoy the full blessings of eternal peace for all generations to come.” The Prime Minister taught the UN delegates that no matter how difficult the present may be, one must maintain our hope for a bright future and the days of redemption.
 

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