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Sat, 18-Oct-14 21:09:26
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Eli wrote: It basically quotes R Alshich as saying: "[Isaiah 52:13] Behold, my servant shall prosper... [Alshech:] I therefore, in my humility, am come after them; [the commentators], not with any sense of the wisdom I am about to utter, but merely with the object of applying to its elucidation a straightforward method, in accordance with the literal sense of the text... I may remark, then, that our Rabbis with one voice accept and affirm the opinion that the prophet is speaking of the King Messiah, and we shall ourselves adhere to the same view.". . . it presents a question as to Moshe and David being Messiah, since they were literal persons.
"[Isaiah 52:13] Behold, my servant shall prosper... [Alshech:] I therefore, in my humility, am come after them; [the commentators], not with any sense of the wisdom I am about to utter, but merely with the object of applying to its elucidation a straightforward method, in accordance with the literal sense of the text... I may remark, then, that our Rabbis with one voice accept and affirm the opinion that the prophet is speaking of the King Messiah, and we shall ourselves adhere to the same view."
"for the Messiah is of course David, who, as is well known, was ‘anointed’, and there is a verse in which the prophet, speaking in the name of the L-rd, says expressly, ‘My servant David shall be king over them’. The expression my servant, therefore, can be justly referred to David…."
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