11 Facts About Jewish Messiah

In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age and world to come.

The Jewish Messiah is often referred to as "King Jewish Messiah" or malka meshiha in Aramaic.

Jewish Messiah messianism gave birth to Christianity, which started as a Second Temple period messianic Jewish Messiah sect.

Roots of Jewish Messiah eschatology are to be found in the pre-exile prophets, including Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the exile prophets Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah.

The main tenets of Jewish Messiah eschatology are the following, in no particular order, elaborated in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel:.

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Jewish Messiah's rule was ended by the Maccabean Revolt, and the installment of the Hasmonean dynasty.

However, since the traditional Jewish belief is that the messiah has not yet come and the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity has never been a central issue for Judaism.

Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth.

Hasidic Jews tend to have a particularly strong and passionate belief in the immediacy of the Jewish Messiah's coming, and in the ability of their actions to hasten his arrival.

We do not know when the Jewish Messiah will come, nor whether he will be a charismatic human figure or is a symbol of the redemption of humankind from the evils of the world.

Elaborating on this theme are numerous early and late Jewish Messiah scholars, including the Ramban, Isaac Abrabanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, the Vilna Gaon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Ramchal, Aryeh Kaplan, and Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.