The Motivation Congregation: The #1 Torah & Mussar Podcast
May 25, 2026 · 5 min · 4 segments
Million-dollar homes, manicured yards, and $500-per-square-foot listings force a question most of us would rather dodge: can we build a comfortable life in Lakewood while still claiming we genuinely…
Michael BrookeHost
Doesn't that completely contradict tzipiso l'Yeshua, and ani maamin be'emunas shleima b'vias hamashiach? What's the answer? Rav Nosson Wachtfogel, the mashgiach of Yeshivas BMG, one of the first talmidim of Rav Aharon Kotler, one of the first 19 boys in Beis Medrash Govoha, a talmud of Chelm, and somebody that was the mashgiach ruchani, the spiritual dean of Yeshivas BMG for more than 50 years.
Somebody asked him, "How can I buy real estate? How can I buy an investment property in America if I need to move to Eretz Yisrael?" And he said, "The answer is because you need to long for Mashiach, and you need to pray that it should come, and you should be ready to drop everything as soon as you hear that it's arrived.
But that doesn't mean that you don't try to shtayig and grow and be a productive, happy Jew in exile.
But should you hear, and should you finally get the news that you've been waiting for that Mashiach's here, you have to be willing to say, 'I'm gonna sell this property.
There's more to my life.' You have to stay in the proper mindset of where everything fits in the grand scheme of things." Why did Rav Nosson Meir Wachtfogel say that if we dive in? I think there's a tremendous wealth of chachmah here.
Doesn't that completely contradict tzipiso l'Yeshua, and ani maamin be'emunas shleima b'vias hamashiach? What's the answer? Rav Nosson Wachtfogel, the mashgiach of Yeshivas BMG, one of the first talmidim of Rav Aharon Kotler, one of the first 19 boys in Beis Medrash Govoha, a talmud of Chelm, and somebody that was the mashgiach ruchani, the spiritual dean of Yeshivas BMG for more than 50 years.
Somebody asked him, "How can I buy real estate? How can I buy an investment property in America if I need to move to Eretz Yisrael?" And he said, "The answer is because you need to long for Mashiach, and you need to pray that it should come, and you should be ready to drop everything as soon as you hear that it's arrived.
But that doesn't mean that you don't try to shtayig and grow and be a productive, happy Jew in exile.
But should you hear, and should you finally get the news that you've been waiting for that Mashiach's here, you have to be willing to say, 'I'm gonna sell this property.
There's more to my life.' You have to stay in the proper mindset of where everything fits in the grand scheme of things." Why did Rav Nosson Meir Wachtfogel say that if we dive in? I think there's a tremendous wealth of chachmah here.
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