I remind you, that at a quick glance over Jewish history, there are 2 acute messianic movements, with literature and a following and...

To look at the messianic value of Luranic Kabbalah, we will come at it retrospectively, for a reason. We know that the Sabbatean movement...

The rise of Kabbalah within the Jewish world really made ground after the Spanish expulsion, as the many mystics from Spain spread all...

Born by the name of Diogo Pires in Portugal to a family of anusim (conversos), he would become at a young age an important official in...

After the Kabbalah has continued to develop and spread, without much to say for mysticism and messianism, things pick up in the 16th...

We continue to rough through the fog of mysticism, and at that - looking for traces of messianism , so we can continue to the...

Here is an interesting big messianic MIDRASH (homily) in the Zohar (Shemot 96 onwards / part 2 page 7 onwards) - building off the halacha...

What is the Zohar and how is it connected to messianism? More or less parallel to the public defamed career of Abulafiya, the book of...

Born in 1240 in Spain, not far from Barcelona, Abraham Abulafiya studied Bible and Talumud under his father. He set out in 1260, after...

We did a stretch through this foggy era of mystical texts in early medieval times. The main point was that it was mystical , but not...

If you read the last post/s, you learned that there was no connection really between "anicent Jewish mysticism" and messsianism . Well,...

This is going to be one long post, that for once, here, will not deal with messianism directly. It is necessary, one post, for context....

We are speaking of messianism. We are exploring the development of messianism in Jewish history. We saw it come out of the biblical roots...

In these posts regarding Talmudic discussions of messianic proportions, I wanted to provide an impression, a taste for this type of...

Through the next passages there are three big questions or dilemmas that are rightfully brought to the fore: One question is, why do we...

What is interesting for us as readers of messianism developing, is to observe how the ideas and themes unfold and grow from the Bible...

We previously got a taste of Talmud writing style and its dealings with messianic ideas. It is associative inconsistent writing. Items...

The Talmud and parallel rabbinical literature, include all sorts of passages engaging directly with messianic ideas and messianic texts....

We are tracing messianic footseps in early rabbinic literature. We are curious how the messianic ideas developed and evolved. We found...

If you have lasted this long, and are familiar with Bar Kochva, you are surely biting your tongue saying, what about Bar Kochva? He was...