[Avodah] Rambam on False Messiahs

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/1/2013 2:02 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 1/09/2013 12:38 AM, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> See, I don't read it that way.  Mashiach isn't "sent".  That's an idea
>> that's rooted in Christianity.
>
> In no particular order
> "Yishlach lekeitz hayamin meshicheinu...."

It's a pretty song.

> "Harachaman hu yishlach lanu meshicho holech tamim..."

Is that in the Chabad bensching, or something?

> "Shelach na beyad tishlach"  (which refers to Moshiach)

Says who?

> About the first geulah, and subsequent ones: "Vayishlach Hashem es Moshe
> ve'es Aharon...vayishlach Hashem es Yerba`al ve'es Bedan ve'es Yiftach
> ve'es Shmuel."

None of these are particularly convincing.

Lisa