Hello Edward,
Throughout Tanach, there are many prophets who prophesied about the times of Moshiach.
One striking verse is found in Yirmiyahu (50:20): "בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵם֩ וּבָעֵ֨ת הַהִ֜יא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה יְבֻקַּ֞שׁ אֶת־עֲוֺ֤ן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְאֶת־חַטֹּ֥את יְהוּדָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תִמָּצֶ֑אינָה כִּ֥י אֶסְלַ֖ח לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר אַשְׁאִֽיר׃
In those days and at that time —declares the LORD— The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, And there shall be none; The sins of Judah, And none shall be found; For I will pardon those I allow to survive."
The Metzudas Dovid explains that those who survive the exile will have had their sins cleaned by the tribulations of the exile itself, and will no longer need to be judged.
The Malbim makes it very clear that this refers to the future times, writing that the Ten Lost Tribes are included in this verse, and that their sins of idolatry will be forgiven. See the Radak, who seconds this notion, writing that it must be talking about a future time, since even after the Second Temple was built, sins did not disappear.
It is for this reason that many people wrote that the great judgement that is said to take place in the times of Moshiach is not for Jews. Their sins will be forgiven. It is for the nations of the world, judging them for their persecution of the Jews, and their laxity in keeping the Seven Noahide Laws.
So, our sins will be forgiven, and our evil inclination will be absolutely blown way by the revelation of G-d. You should check out http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/332562/jewish/Moshiach-101.htm.
Let me know if you need any more information.
Have a great Shabbos!
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1157486/jewish/Moshiach-An-Introduction.htm
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1121893/jewish/Who-Is-Moshiach-the-Jewish-Messiah.htm
Anonymous Prescott, ARJune 22, 2017
I know he is to be a descendent of King David, but where in Tanakh does it say that he must also be son of King Solomon. King David had many sons.
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Moshiach will certainly be a leader in all those respects, and you're right - initially he may not be accepted by the entire Jewish world. And as the Rambam writes, initially he is only presumed to be Moshiach. But certainly after he succeeds in the first steps and actually rebuilds the Temple and gathers the Jewish people to the Holy Land, there will be little room for doubt.
Hey Anonymous,
Great question! In fact, Chabad.org has an article on this question. You can find it at this link.
The essence of the answer is that there is a verse that says, “Let my lord King David live forever” (I Kings 1:31). That verse, which reaffirms the fact that monarchy will only continue through David's descendants, is used in relation to David appointing Solomon as his heir. From here, we see that kingship will also only come through Solomon.
Great question! In fact, Chabad.org has an article on this question. You can find it at this link.
The essence of the answer is that there is a verse that says, “Let my lord King David live forever” (I Kings 1:31). That verse, which reaffirms the fact that monarchy will only continue through David's descendants, is used in relation to David appointing Solomon as his heir. From here, we see that kingship will also only come through Solomon.
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Dear Rabbi,
I read that the Messiah will not only be a descendant of King David, but also of his son Solomon. What is the source for this?
Answer:
Let’s start with King David.
Various verses throughout Scripture clearly state that the Messiah, known in Hebrew as the Moshiach, will be a descendant of the house of David:
And a shoot shall spring forth from the stem of Jesse[David’s father], and a twig shall sprout from his roots. (Isaiah 11:1)Behold, days are coming, says the L‑rd, when I will set up of David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign as king and prosper, and he shall perform judgment and righteousness in the land. In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name that he shall be called, The L‑rd is our righteousness. (Jeremiah 23:5–6)
The reason that the Moshiach will be a descendant of King David is because, once David was anointed king by the prophet Samuel, he acquired the kingship for himself and his descendants forever. The verse thus states (II Samuel 7:16), “Your throne shall be established forever.” This acquisition was conditional, applying only to his righteous descendants, as the verse in Psalms states (132:12), “If your children will keep My covenant . . . their children shall also sit on your throne forever.”
Nevertheless, G‑d assured David that the monarchy would not be taken from his descendants forever:
If his children will forsake My Torah and cease walking in My statutes . . . I will punish their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with plagues. Nevertheless, I will not utterly remove My grace from him . . . His throne shall be . . . established forever. (Psalms 89:31–38)1
While this promise seems to be made about all of David’s offspring, we find that G‑d singles out King Solomon (I Chronicles 22:9–10):
Behold, a son will be born to you; he will be a man of peace, and I shall give him peace (shalom) from all his enemies around about, for Solomon (Shlomo) will be his name, and I shall give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. He shall build a house in My name, and he shall be to Me as a son, and I to him as a father, and I shall prepare the throne of his kingdom forever.
And later on, David states:
And of all my sons—for the L‑rd gave me many sons—He chose my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the L‑rd over Israel . . . (Ibid. 28:5)
When King David reaffirms that Solomon will reign after him, he is saluted with the expression, “Let my lord King David live forever” (I Kings 1:31),2 indicating that the eternal monarchy continues through Solomon.
In light of the above, the fact that Moshiach will be a descendant of both David and Solomon is part of the twelfth (of the thirteen) Jewish fundamental beliefs as outlined by Maimonides.3
However, it is interesting to note that while it is clear from all of the above sources that the Messiah will be a descendant of King Solomon, the Zohar seems to state that Moshiach will actually be a descendant of Nathan, a different son of David. Expounding on the verse (Isaiah 40:9), “Upon a lofty mountain ascend, you who brings good tidings to Zion,” the Zohar states:
The famed 20th-century Jewish scholar and kabbalist Rabbi Reuven Margolies explains that the Zohar is careful to describe the Moshiach as being a descendant of Nathan’s wife, rather than of Nathan himself. Nathan had passed away childless, and Solomon his brother married his widow, according to the laws of yibum, levirate marriage.5
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See Yibum and Chalitzah.
In a levirate marriage, the firstborn son of the widow and the brother of the deceased is considered to be a continuation of the dead husband’s line. Therefore, Moshiach is referred to here as “offspring” of Nathan, even though he is a descendant of King Solomon.6
Zohar 3:173b.
Margaliot Hayam, Sanhedrin 95b, note 6. For further discussion on this, see Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky, Yemot HaMoshiach
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2.
See Likkutei Sichot (by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory), vol. 25, p. 113.
3.
Maimonides, preface to his commentary on the Mishnah, Sanhedrin, ch. 10.
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Moschiach will be a combinationMoschiach will be a combination of different soul sparks of all the great leaders of the generations..fixing the errors of them all..they will be wise with knowledge of the future, technology to make peace on the Earth and in the Heavens and also will be a holy leader, like Aaron, but will sing like David. They will have an upbringing like Moshe and Joseph, for they had the passion to strive to save the world, like Soloman. The Moschiach will want to unite the world, bringing together all the children of G-d to acknowledge that everyone is created physically equal, but everyone has different jobs, and the job of the first born of the world, Israel, is to be teachers, leaders, and priests. A leader has to be able to go as low as possible to bring up people who are there, has to get down and dirty and make it a clean place. And has to be wise and learn when to say the right thing and act with the right force. Shalom to you all and may you be blessed with the light of the infinite!
Moschiach will be a combinationMoschiach will be a combination of different soul sparks of all the great leaders of the generations..fixing the errors of them all..they will be wise with knowledge of the future, technology to make peace on the Earth and in the Heavens and also will be a holy leader, like Aaron, but will sing like David. They will have an upbringing like Moshe and Joseph, for they had the passion to strive to save the world, like Soloman. The Moschiach will want to unite the world, bringing together all the children of G-d to acknowledge that everyone is created physically equal, but everyone has different jobs, and the job of the first born of the world, Israel, is to be teachers, leaders, and priests. A leader has to be able to go as low as possible to bring up people who are there, has to get down and dirty and make it a clean place. And has to be wise and learn when to say the right thing and act with the right force. Shalom to you all and may you be blessed with the light of the infinite!
Look to The BOOK of Ruththere is a profound reason G_d put this lineage in Ruth.
there is a deep and utter beauty to this that has to the story itself, and the mitzvot, a story that is deeply and purely, about friendship and love.
and this I will say, there is a circling story that has everything to do with ascent and descent, and a story, so beautiful, contained by Ruth that G_d wrote that is going to propel us all into a new state of consciousness.
G_d, the Master Poet, wrote us all into a story that deeply turns on ruah itself. And UR as in UR, the R and the U, have deep connects to this Messianic story.
I KNOW this. I am not asking for any confirmation of what G_d is telling me.
there is a deep and utter beauty to this that has to the story itself, and the mitzvot, a story that is deeply and purely, about friendship and love.
and this I will say, there is a circling story that has everything to do with ascent and descent, and a story, so beautiful, contained by Ruth that G_d wrote that is going to propel us all into a new state of consciousness.
G_d, the Master Poet, wrote us all into a story that deeply turns on ruah itself. And UR as in UR, the R and the U, have deep connects to this Messianic story.
I KNOW this. I am not asking for any confirmation of what G_d is telling me.
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Margaliot Hayam, Sanhedrin 95b, note 6. For further discussion on this, see Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky, Yemot HaMoshiach B’Halachah, chs. 10–11.
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Ruth mentions JungYou may want to investigate the continuation of Jung's work. Marc Bregman has had the courage to follow him all the way down the rabbit hole and beyond, to wholeness. He has radically altered the meaning of Animus and Anima. He is radically honorable. He would make a hugely admirable Noachide, for example.
Lies My Father Taught Me: a play within, a play? God is laughing ( Ladinsky, poetry)It's interesting how articles keep coming back. And I to them, at X. A few years ago I went to Montreal to this play eager also to see legendary Theodore Bikel act as the Father. In this play, set in a Sholem Aleichem setting and time, Bikel's grandson asks about Moshiach. " Can anyone be the Moshiach?" Bikel as grandfather answers, Anyone. "Anyone?" asks the boy. "Even YOU", is the response. And I was thinking it could be a girl too, because despite what's written here and elsewhere, there is an alchemy to all this and I think G_d is laughing, because it could be a kind of White Lie, as in, the migrations of soul, many feel, brought us back, and so a girl could have been, a boy. I know in my life, G_d is laughing, because the evidence is everywhere, in the life I am leading, in following the River, in the astounding connectivity that says, yes, Ruth, there is such a thing as Divine Providence. So I keep a record, and that record is without doubt brilliant in terms of the connects.
Lies My Father Taught Me: a play within, a play? God is laughing ( Ladinsky, poetry)It's interesting how articles keep coming back. And I to them, at X. A few years ago I went to Montreal to this play eager also to see legendary Theodore Bikel act as the Father. In this play, set in a Sholem Aleichem setting and time, Bikel's grandson asks about Moshiach. " Can anyone be the Moshiach?" Bikel as grandfather answers, Anyone. "Anyone?" asks the boy. "Even YOU", is the response. And I was thinking it could be a girl too, because despite what's written here and elsewhere, there is an alchemy to all this and I think G_d is laughing, because it could be a kind of White Lie, as in, the migrations of soul, many feel, brought us back, and so a girl could have been, a boy. I know in my life, G_d is laughing, because the evidence is everywhere, in the life I am leading, in following the River, in the astounding connectivity that says, yes, Ruth, there is such a thing as Divine Providence. So I keep a record, and that record is without doubt brilliant in terms of the connects.
Excellent CommentsThank you for sharing your excellent commentary. I only have one question, as I have not been educated in the Jewish Scriptures. What is the scriptural reference for "The curtain will be ripped aside, and all flesh will perceive G‑d?
It is a true statement. I am not disagreeing, just looking for the reference to expand my readings.
Carl Jung experienced G-d when he was going through the depths of his soul after the breakdown resulting from his disagreement and rejection by Freud. However, he abandoned his "wholeness" required to experience G-d by denying his feminine aspect and relied on using Toni Wolfe, with who he had a fifteen year extra-marital affair as his crutch to feel whole and thus could not recreate the G-d perceiving experience. Although I still hold Jung in very high esteem, he never recreated the experience of self transcendence throughout his life, even during his near death experience.
Carl Jung experienced G-d when he was going through the depths of his soul after the breakdown resulting from his disagreement and rejection by Freud. However, he abandoned his "wholeness" required to experience G-d by denying his feminine aspect and relied on using Toni Wolfe, with who he had a fifteen year extra-marital affair as his crutch to feel whole and thus could not recreate the G-d perceiving experience. Although I still hold Jung in very high esteem, he never recreated the experience of self transcendence throughout his life, even during his near death experience.
the sand in the oyster shellRecently Carl Jung's Red Book was published. Jung was a man who didn't believe in the existence of God. He "knew". He wrote about the collective unconscious. He wrote in his own words, in psychoanalytic terms, about consciousness and the stream, that is the River, that is consciousness. What we are daily perceiving, is deeply metaphoric of another story, a journey of soul. I am saying, we're doing a cosmic dance together, and that dance, is deeply part of a story we didn't write, but it is about the rub, how we shine, in dialogue, in investing ourselves in issues of ethics, and how we deal with complex ethical issues. It's about the reach, and I am saying, God wrote us all into a profound story that is going someplace deep.
In synchronicity Jung saw something, namely a moving together through seemingly a causal connects, and he must have wondered, what's making this happen.
To grapple with this mystery, is a God driven story. We are sand in the oyster shell. Ah there's the rub!
In synchronicity Jung saw something, namely a moving together through seemingly a causal connects, and he must have wondered, what's making this happen.
To grapple with this mystery, is a God driven story. We are sand in the oyster shell. Ah there's the rub!
Thank youI read this today after our evening prayers, and my little boy (Yehudah) and I felt a surge of Hope when we read the last paragraph. Thank you! It is amazing what children pick up; but what is more amazing is what they repeat back to you, and how timely it can be...he said - almost to himself..."I believe in the Coming of the Mashiach; and tho He is delayed, I still believe". I'm not sure he knows what "delay" or "tho" means. But he felt something in saying it....and so did I.
