Word: messiah
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...driven Israel's massive settlement expansion of the last three decades, by shattering its basic tenet - the secular Israeli state is no longer serving as a vehicle for restoring Jewish possession of the Biblical Land of Israel, which they believe is an essential condition for the coming of the Messiah...
...Torah, and the way to get there has been shown us in a practical way by the mitzvot," the 613 commandments that define traditional Jewish practice. In Lubavitcher thinking, all matter is filled with holiness, and even minor deeds help prepare for the coming of the Messiah...
...private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman was hoping to discuss a possible summit meeting. In a talk with Likud activists, Shamir declared that Weizman, a member of the small Yahad Party, had decided that "he has been crowned Israel's messiah of peace." Replied Weizman the next day: "I suggest that we not go too deeply into heavenly terminology. Better a messiah of peace than...
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...they see the destination as having been a theological necessity. Bethlehem had been King David's hometown. And in a confused 1st century theological landscape in which many Jews expected a mighty new leader but disagreed on his nature, David's biblical status as God's "anointed one" (or "Messiah") provided a potent precedent of divinely sanctioned kingship. Binding Jesus to him by family (through Joseph) and birthplace consolidated that definition, which then matured into Christianity's far grander messiahship. Says White: "No Bethlehem, no David. No David, no messianic prototype. Matthew and Luke both understood that." The way each...