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Moshiach (Messiah) lit. "annointed one". The final redeemer of the Jewish people from exile. Prophesied in Tanach, he will be a righteous human king descended patrilineally from King David. Identity still unknown, check back later.
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Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk cancelled the Chevlei Moshiach?
Here a just a bunch of collections from several seforim that discuss this concept.
See the sefer Igra Debe Hiluli אגרא דבי הילולי (p. 235):
בכל העולם סיגף עצמו במאד מאד וידוע שאמר כי ביטל בסיגופיו ה …
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The end of days
A lot can be found in Zecharya, chapter 14. Especially in the beginning. In posuk 16, it writes:
All who survive of all those nations that came up against Jerusalem
shall make a pilgrimage year by ye …
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Judaism's position on the coming of the Messiah and the ingathering of the exiles
There are a lot of sources that stress that Moshiach will come, and then we will be gathered to Eretz Yisrael from the "four corners of the world". See for example Yirmiyahu 29:14.
The Rambam rules cl …
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Free will after Moshiach
The prophet Zechariah writes (13:1):
And it shall come to pass on that day, says the L-rd of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: a …
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Who are Gog and Magog?
There's an article by Rabbi Eliyahu Bahbout called "Can Russia’s war against Ukraine evolve into a Gog and Magog war?" where it explains, using a plethora of sources, that Russia could be Gog Magog. A …
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Seventy-two Years of Chevlei Mashiach
Vilna Gaon in Yahel Ohr (2:119:2) notes that there are seventy words in this Psalm, corresponding to the seventy years of travails and suffering referred to in the classic texts as the birth pangs of Messiah … - that the Jewish people will have to experience before the Messiah comes and redeems us (emphasis mine)
The Gra mentions this in his סידור הגר"א (Siddur), see picture below, property of HebrewBooks.org …
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Staying in galut to avoid Gog Umagog
their lives in going to Eretz Yisroel, "in order to merit a pure soul, not caring about their health [...] or to be captured by harsh lords" (Chesed L'Avraham, Even Shetiya, Maayan 3, Nahar 22):
And the Messiah …
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Source for this Vilna Gaon?
It is indeed an oral tradition from the Vilna Gaon.
The Vilna Gaon seems to say this piece of information in Chevlei Mashiach Bizemaneinu, p. 134:
I saw somewhere that this also can be found in the co …
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What opinions on what types of bird's nests relate to Moshiach? Is phoenix sourced?
At that time the king, Messiah, will arise to go out of the Garden of
Eden from the place called the 'bird's nest' and he will become
revealed in the land of Galilee. … On the day that MESSIAH goes there,
the whole world will tremble and all the people of the world will hide
in the caves and CRACKS in the rocks and will not expect to survive. …
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Aliyat ha-dorot
The Lubavitcher Rebbe (לקוטי שיחות יה) explains why pnimiyus haTorah, the mystical dimension of the Torah, was revealed in the last generation in which the "footsteps of Moshiach" can be heard. The Re …
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Moshiach and three meals
The Imrei Emes (Avraham Mordechai Alter) explains this Gemara as follows (No time for a translation, anyone who can do this, please feel free to translate it. Otherwise I will pick this up at a later …
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The reason Sukkos is connected to Gog U'Magog
One possible answer (to get the flow going) is given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Toras Menachem Hisvaaaduyos Volume 38 p. 53 (שיחת שבת חול-המועד סוכות ה'תשכ"ד).
The Gemara teaches (Sukkah 55b and Rash …
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Moshiach will come unexpectedly
This is as in that practice of Rabbi Zeira, who, when he would find
Sages who were engaging in discussions about the coming of the
Messiah, said to them: Please, I ask of you, do not delay his coming
by … As we learn in a baraita: There are
three matters that come only by means of diversion of attention from
those matters, and these are they: The Messiah, a lost item, and a
scorpion. …
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Is it still galut even though a lot of Jews are in Israel
The Gemara in Shabbos 21a says:
The only difference between this world and the messianic era is subjugation of the exiles to other kingdoms, from which the Jewish people will be released.
The Satmar …
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