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asked 6 years ago

Hello.
One of the thirteen main principles is belief in the coming of the Messiah.
And here is the purpose of the coming of the Messiah, wrote Maimonides, that he would gather the outcasts of Israel and build the Temple, and more.
And since then, it has been difficult for me to believe why the Messiah would do this, what would happen if a group of public figures did it?
And if you say that these actions are not necessary for the Messiah to do them, then why is a Messiah needed?
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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
If you do it as a group of people, then they are the Messiah. Who said that the Messiah is a person? It has already been written that the Messiah is not necessarily a person but perhaps an era. According to this, the Messiah the King is a metaphor and not a factual description. But as for your question itself, I didn’t understand it. If you accept the tradition that the Messiah will come and gather the outcasts of Israel, then that’s what the tradition says. There could be a kibbutz without a specific person, but the tradition says that a person will do it. What’s the problem with that? You assume for some reason that there is a tradition that there will be a kibbutz of outcasts but there is no tradition that it will be by a person. Where do you get that from?

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בועז replied 6 years ago

I personally thought that tradition should also have some logic, and here is the question.
As for the substance of the matter, I agree with what you wrote that there should be no individual named Messiah, perhaps this is included in what Maimonides wrote that these things will not be known until He comes.
The necessity to assume this is because intuitively it seems that the gathering of the exiles was done by a group of people (and even heretics, Rabbi), so let's assume that Herzl is the Messiah (as Rabbi Kook said), or let's assume that the gathering of the exiles is all twelve tribes.
And the twelve tribes, when they came to them, were given a milta,
Apparently according to the halacha, it seems that most of the twelve tribes have been true gentiles for a long time (except for the tribe of Dan, where many also believe that they are doubtless gentiles), so one must ask whether the things that depend on the twelve tribes, such as the obligation to pay the tithe and the challah that all of you must pay, and for how many rishonim does a majority of all twelve tribes need, do we have to wait until they convert or are they already out of the tribe count?

mikyab123 replied 6 years ago

I don't know how to say. Simply put, the majority of its inhabitants means the majority of those known as its inhabitants (as Jews).

אור פרי דבש replied 6 years ago

Perhaps the novelty is that God is the Messiah (not in the flesh) who redeems Israel.

בני replied 6 years ago

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

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