determine who will be drawn to do "Jewish" things and who will not, who will be compelled to keep the Sabbath and who will see no value in it, who will have a real love for the Biblical Holy Days and who will look at them as something strange.

However, the act of the House of Israel returning to God, is the event the whole world waits for. Even in the Christian Bible we see Paul writes about this expected and anticipated event.

Romans 8: 19

For the creation waits in earnest expectation for the manifestation of the sons of God.

This phenomenon is also foretold in a Jewish Orthodox Torah Blessing.

Orthodox Torah Blessing

Blessed are You, Hashem, our God,
King of the universe,
Who has sanctified us with His commandments
and has commanded us to engross ourselves
in the words of Torah.
Please, Hashem, our God,
sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouth
and in the mouth of Your people
,
the family of Israel.
May we and our offspring
and the offspring of Your people,
the House of Israel - all of us
-
know Your Name and study Your Torah
for its own sake.
Blessed are You, Hashem,
Who teaches Torah to His people Israel.

On Shabbat Teshuva (the Sabbath of Return) between Rosh

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