Question:
Everyone knows that this year is a Birchas HaChama year. Birchas HaChama falls out this year on Erev Pesach. Rumor has it that this only happened twice in history, the first time being the year of Geulas Mitzrayim, and the second time the year of the Purim miracle. There is a lot of discussion that the third year is the year of Moshiach.
Source:
The Sichot of the Admor M'Ostrovosta at the time of 5685 (1925), p. 52.
Answer:
This year is 5769/2009 and is the year of Birchas Hachama which is always post Shemittah (the cycle of 7 years of rest); being a multiple of 7.
The Exodus from Egypt occurred in 2448. This was the 87th cycle of Birchas Hachama, but the twelfth year of that cycle, was the Exodus. Birchas Hachama occurred on 2437 (11 years before) and again on 2465 (17 years after).
The Events of Purim took place around the year 3405 again, nowhere near 3389 or 3417, the years of Birchas Hachama.
A simple purview of the current Hebrew calendar shows that in the years 609, 693, 1309, 1925, and 2009, are years when it did occur on Erev Pesach.
The facts are that the Moshiach can come any time, as long as Klal Yisroel do Teshuvah, that we cry out to Hashem, to answer our prayers genuinely, with a desire to fulfill the Ratzon Hashem, and to serve Him.
The Power we have in prayer can be seen from the fact that the Kohein Gadol, requests, at the height of the service of Yom Kippur, when he enters the Holy of Holies, of Hashem, to refrain from listening to the simple Jew who is walking back from Alos L'Regel. This Jew has a pure, sincere, prayer in his heart that it should not rain. This can only be stopped with the power of the Holy of Holies, with all of Klal Yisroel's soul and heart towards serving the Creator - imagine that! The Power of Teshuva, with a sincere pure heart to serve Hashem?
May we do Teshuva today, and merit to see Moshiach tomorrow, as the Gemara tells us - the Moshiach is waiting to come, he just needs to be told to come....
