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Mashiach ben Yosef #1

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 end of a prophetic portrayal of the war of Gog and Magog, it relates: The land will eulogize, each family by itself, the family of David by itself and their wives by themselves (12:12). One opinion amongst the Tannaim identifies this as the eulogy of Mashiach descended from the tribe of Yosef, who will have been killed in the war. The Maharsha explains that Mashiach ben Yosef will precede the coming of Mashiach ben David, saving the Jewish People, but dying...

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Parashat Parah, Parashat Shemini, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Shemini (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Shemini (Videos)

Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight) Shabbat: Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 9:1 - 11:47 Special Maftir: Bamidbar / Numbers 19:1-19:22 Haftorah: Yechezkel / Ezekiel 36:16 - 36:38 Shemini, Sh’mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי — Hebrew f ...

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Parasha Ree, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Ree (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Ree (Videos)

Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree (ראה — Hebrew for “see,” the first word in the parshah) is the 47th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in August or ea ...

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Castellano, Parasha Behaalotecha, Torá en Español, Torah

Torah, Habitos o Adiccion – Parasha Beaaloteja (Videos)

Torah, Habitos o Adiccion - Parasha Beaaloteja (Videos)

La gente del nuestro pueblo acababan de comenzar su viaje hacia la tierra de Israel. Después de haber permanecido en el desierto frente al Monte Sinaí por más de un año, había llegado el momento de volver a emprender viaje. Esta vez se trataba – según se suponía en ese momento - del últ ...

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Bat Torah, Parashat Metzorah, Parashat Tazria, Torah

Is God Sexist? – Parashat Tazria / Mezora (Videos)

Is God Sexist? - Parashat Tazria / Mezora (Videos)

This week''s reading is a double portion since it is a nonleap year.  We are reading  Tazira and Metzora - Vayikra 12-16. These parashot primarily address the issue of purity and impurity.  Often these concepts are not understood and called unnecessary, ancient, and not understandable by today's standards.  There are many lesso ...

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Judaismo Mesianico, Torah

Pura Vida o Vida Pura (Video)

Pura Vida o Vida Pura (Video)

El Judío ha caminado, camina y caminará siempre hasta a venida de Mashiaj Tzidkenu, en un camino lleno de encrucijadas, donde siempre tendrá que tomar decisiones que cambiarán su vida y la de los suyos, es por ello que HaKadosh Baruj Hu (El bendito sea Su Nombre), nos ha entregado el Manual del Buen Explorador, para and ...

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Parashat Shemini, Torah, Torah Video

Playing with Fire – Parasha Shemini (Videos)

Playing with Fire - Parasha Shemini (Videos)

Now Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before HaShem alien fire, which He had not enjoined upon them. 2 And fire came forth from HaShem and consumed them; thus they died at the instance of HaShem. [Vayikra 10:1-3] This weeks Torah reading deals in part with the death of Aar ...

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