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Talmud Class: Can the Messiah Come Now?

Published: May 28, 2022, 4:14 p.m.

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Uvalde. Buffalo. Santa Ana. Bomb threats at JCCs (including our own).

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If the Messiah were ever going to come to fix our broken world, now would be a good time.

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On Shabbat we are going to take a look at three texts that deal with the Messiah.

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The first is an Elijah story. Elijah famously tells a rabbi searching for the Messiah that you can find him in a leper colony, among the most diseased and impoverished people.

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The second is a story by Israel\\u2019s Nobel Prize-winning author Shmuel Agnon called The Kerchief, which is a literary treatment of the passage from the Talmud about the Messiah coming from a leper colony.

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The third is a sermon by Rabbi Harold Kushner, delivered at his son Aaron\\u2019s Bar Mitzvah (Aaron would pass away later that year), on the Agnon story.

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