Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the high priest entered, once a year. In addition, there are various views over how and when a new Temple could or should be raised. The Babylonian Talmud offers conflicting opinions, but Rashi, the great medieval sage, insisted that the Temple must descend directly from heaven when the Messiah comes. On the other hand, tradition holds that God's biblical command to build the Temple is irrevocable, and the Jerusalem Talmud says Jews may construct an intermediate edifice before the Messianic era. A 1983 newspaper poll showed that a surprising 18.3% of Israelis thought it was time to rebuild...
...homosexual who advocated violence and murder. Hermann Goring was an air-force veteran without a scruple to his name. "I have no conscience," he liked to declare. "My conscience is Adolf Hitler." But then, Hitler was the conscience of all his cadre. Pan-Germanism was their creed, Adolf their Messiah. When criticized, Hitler would say, "Two thousand years ago, a man was similarly denounced . . . That man was dragged before a court, and they said, 'He is arousing the people!' So he too was an agitator...
...combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue to believe that the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared in A.D. 940, will one day emerge from hiding to establish a purified Islamic state. Some Iranians hailed Khomeini as an Imam qualified to be the deputy for the Shi'ite messiah...
Anti-semitism has also been a problem in the Church for more than a millenia. It has its roots in the belief of some Christians that the Jewish religion, while still valuable in its doctrines, has been replaced by the word of Christ, who claimed to be the messiah of the Jews but was rejected by their leaders...
...Walton. Wu, who was a Literature concentrator while a resident of Dunster, has studied voice at the Longy School of Music for several years and has performed locally with the Tanglewood Chorus. Earlier this year, Wu sang the soprano lead in Dunster's Christmas presentation of Handel's Messiah. Saturday's voice recital is free and open to the public...