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Page 1 of 9 A Selection of the central source texts about Moshiach from the Torah, Midrash, Talmud, Zohar, Maimonides, the Chassidic Masters and other Classic sources. The seeds for many of the articles on this site are contained within these sources.
In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth... and the spirit of G-d hovered over the waters...
Genesis 1:1-2
("The spirit of G-d hovered" -- this is the spirit of Moshiach - Midrash Rabbah).
And G-d saw all that He made, and behold, it is very good.
Genesis 1:31
All His work, which G-d created (for man) to develop.
Genesis 2:3
They shall build for Me a sanctuary and I shall dwell amongst them.
Exodus 25:8
You will cross the Jordan and settle the land which G-d is giving you as an inheritance. He will give you rest from all your enemies which surround you, and you will dwell secure. Then there shall be a place which G-d shall choose to cause His name to dwell therein...
There you shall seek Him...
- Deuteronomy 12:10-11; 12:5
"You will return to the L-rd your G-d...
And the L-rd your G-d shall return with your returnees... and He will return and gather you from all the nations amongst whom the L-rd your G-d has scattered you..."
"If your outcasts shall be at the ends of the heavens, from there will the L-rd your G-d gather you, from there He will take you... [He] will bring you into the Land which your fathers have possessed and you will possess it, and he will do you good and multiply you, more than your fathers...
[He] will circumcise your heart (remove its coarse covering, make it receptive to G-dliness) ... to love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul...
G-d will again rejoice over you... for you shall hearken to the voice of G-d... to keep His commandments and statues which are written in this book of the Torah...
- Deuteronomy 30:2-10
It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mount of the house of G-d shall be established atop the mountains, and be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall stream to it.
And many nations will go, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of G-d, to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and he (Moshiach) will teach us of His ways and we will walk in His paths." For from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of G-d from Jerusalem.
And he (Moshiach) will judge between nations, and decide among the peoples.
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword upon nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- Isaiah 2:2-4
There shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Yishai, a branch shall grow from his roots. The spirit of G-d shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of G-d... Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his reins.
The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid... the cow and the bear will graze... the lion will eat straw as the ox... the suckling child will play on the cobra's hole...
For the earth shall be filed with the knowledge of G-d, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 11:1-9
No longer shall your Master be cloaked; your eyes will behold your Master.
The glory of G-d will be revealed. And all flesh will see that the mouth of G-d has spoken.
- Isaiah 30:20; 40:5
I have given you a national covenant: to be a light unto the nations.
- Isaiah 42:6
I will set my Torah in their innards and write it upon their hearts...
- Jeremiah 31:32
I will take you from the nations, gather you from the countries and bring you to your land... From all your contaminations, from all your idols, I will cleanse you.
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will place within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will place My spirit within you.
- Ezekiel 36:24-27
I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant... and I shall set My dwelling in their midst for evermore.
- Ezekiel 37:26
I will no longer hide my face from them.
- Ezekiel 39:29
I shall pour forth my spirit upon all flesh.
- Joel 3:1
Behold, days are coming, says G-d, when I will send a famine upon the earth; not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but to hear the word of G-d.
- Amos 8:11
For then I shall turn to the nations a pure tongue, that all shall call upon the name of G-d to serve Him as one.
- Zephaniah 3:9
I shall remove evil from the world.
- Zechariah 13:2
And G-d shall be king over the entire world; on that day, G-d will be one, and His name, one.
- Zechariah 14:9
Behold, I am sending you Elijah the prophet, before the great and awesome day of G-d will come. He will restore the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers.
- Malachi 3:23-24
I am sleeping but my heart is awake.
- Song of Songs 5:2
(This refers to the state of galut. -Midrash Rabbah)
The voice of my beloved, behold he has come, leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills... Behold, he is standing behind our wall, watching through the windows, peering through the cracks... Arise my loved one, my fair one, and go forth! For behold, the winter is over, the rain is over and gone. The blossoms have appeared on earth, the time of singing has arrived, and the voice of the guide is heard in the land!"
- Song of Songs 2:8-12
From the Supernal One cannot emerge both evil and good.
Lamentations 3:38
(Thus the "evil" we encounter is but the concealment of good. -Chassidic teaching)
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