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In Judaism, Ha-mashiach (המשיח, 'the Messiah'), [3] [a] often referred to as melekh ha-mashiach (מלך המשיח, 'King Messiah'), [5] is a fully human non-deity Jewish leader, physically descended via a human genetic father of an unbroken paternal Davidic line through King David and King Solomon.
Number 12 is the main principle relating to Mashiach. Orthodox Jews strictly believe in a Messiah, life after death, and restoration of the Promised Land: [52] [53] I believe with full faith in the coming of the Messiah. And even though he tarries, with all that, I await his arrival with every day. [note 8]
In Jewish eschatology Messiah ben Joseph or Mashiach ben Yoseph (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן־יוֹסֵף Māšīaḥ ben Yōsēf), also known as Mashiach bar/ben Ephraim (Aram./Heb.: מָשִׁיחַ בַּר/בֶּן אֶפְרַיִם Māšīaḥ bar/ben Efrayīm), is a Jewish messiah from the tribe of Ephraim and a descendant of Joseph. [1]
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.
Islamic tradition has a prophecy of the Mahdi, who will come alongside the return of Isa (Jesus).. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India (1835–1908), proclaimed himself to be both the expected Mahdi and Messiah.
Many Hasidim felt that Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the mashiach of the generation, even though he never said so himself. [41] As the years went on, and descriptions of Schneerson as being toweringly unique, a Rebbe of truly unprecedented and universally recognized stature, spread ever further, this messianic speculation spread to greater ...
Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. This includes the ingathering of the exiled diaspora, the coming of the Jewish Messiah, the afterlife, and the resurrection of the dead.
Medieval Jews saw the story as possibly anti-Roman, and Rashi interpreted 'Rome' as meaning not the physical city but the part of paradise overlooking Rome. This neutralised and spiritualised the story and reconciled it with legends of the Messiah being carried alive to paradise.