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Mon, 20-Oct-14 09:36:07
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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."
"and many explain it as refering to mashiach based on the words of our sages in Midrash Rabah 11:3..."
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