Posts Tagged gog and magog

I am making available to you, the reader, writtings on Mashiach ben Yosef from a non Messianic Jew. Very interesting. Background: Jewish tradition speaks of two redeemers, each one called Mashiach. Both are involved in ushering in the Messianic era. They are Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Yosef. Now to the article: A number of months ago, I sang at a wedding where the chosson had written a little sefer about Mashiach ben Yosef and Yehoshua. I recently came across the copy I had gotten, and called him up to ask for permission to reprint it in the blog. He graciously acquiesced, so here I will present, in segments, some of the interesting contents of this sefer, written by Rav Daniel Krentzman. The concept of Mashiach ben Yosef appears once in Shas, in an obscure aggadah in (Succah 52a) that expounds a pasuk in Zecharyah. At the [...]
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Traditional Judaism maintains belief in two anointed ones who come once. Messianic Judaism, in contrast, finds its foundation firmly established upon the concept of one Messiah who makes two appearances (the Chabad movement believes the same as we do, One Messiah). Traditional Judaism says that the King Messiah, who succeeds in his task of creating ...
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