משתמש:איתן נחמן/Moshiach in every generation: הבדלים בין גרסאות בדף

From the words of our sages we derive many signs regarding the identity of this person. Jews throughout the ages have always tried identifying which person in their generation is fit to be the messiah.

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This does not mean that that baby is the king Messiah who will actually redeem the Jews, but rather this shows us that while the temple was still burning, a person was born who would be ready and fit to redeem them the moment they become deserving.

It is on this basis that rabbi Obadiah bartenurah wrote in his commentary on the book of Ruth: " in every generation one of the descendants of Judah who deserves to be the messiah is born". And also in the responsa "and from the day that the temple was destroyed, immediately one was born worthy of his righteousness to be a Redeemer, and when the time comes, the holy one blessed be he will reveal himself to him and send him to redeem the Jewish nation. It is because of our many sins that we did not deserve redemption, but when the time is ripe, God will reveal himself to him and send him, just as God sent Moses In the exodus from Egypt." In 'pri tzaddik' of rabbi tzadok hacohen of Lublin, he writes: "in every generation the soul of the Messiah is enclothed in a different body" and so says the radak "in every generation there shall be one who is of the seed of David, who will bring about salvation". As proof of this, the rebbe wrote to a Jew who was astonished to hear from his rabbi that in every generation there is a man great enough to be the Messiah that "this is also in the words of maimonides in the thirteen principals of faith "I believe... I will await him every day that he should come" which is only possible if he is born before the years before the death of the previous. Elsewhere the rebbe clarifies regarding the birth of moshiach immediately after the destruction that this is necessary because as soon as the Jews repent of their sins "they are right away redeemed". After all, the moshiach is a human being who will rule over Israel, thus he needs to be ready to redeem the Jews as soon as they repent. In one of his discourses the rebbe transcribed: messiah is in the world suffering from the ailments of exile, and looking forward with impatience to the godly revelation that will come about in the true and complete redemption, that is brought about by him, a redemption which there is no exile afterwards, as maimonides states "a king shall rise from the house of David..."

The identity of the moshiach in every generation

Therefore this person must be  

*From the seed of David. For the Messiah is a "king from the house of David"  

* The gemara asks what is the name of the Messiah, and every school said that his name is name of their rebbe. Every student calls his rebbe the Messiah, as he believes in him being the rebbe, the leader of the generation, and thus also the moshiach of the generation. In this way throughout the ages there have been many people called "moshiach", and obviously there is only one actual moshiach. It means to say that they are all worthy of being moshiach, and would have been had their generation deserved it.  

* In our generation, the man identified by Jews around the world as the leader of the generation, and thus also the moshiach of the generation, is the lubavitcher rebbe.

The rebbes name is the name of moshiach, as the gemara says "Menachem is the name of moshiach"..

The rebbe adds Mendel.

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