[Avodah] Rambam on False Messiahs

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 07:54:38PM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> "Yishlach lekeitz hayamin meshicheinu...."

> It's a pretty song.

Which every Jewish qehillah from Frankfurt to the Darad'im have no
problem with including in our siddur..

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

> Is that in the Chabad bensching, or something?

It's in everyone's (AFAIK) bentching for a se'udas beris milah.

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

> Says who?

Pirqei derR Eliezer ch. 40 and Medrash Leqach Tov on our pasuq.

>> 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.

They show that sending a go'el has nothing to do with implying his
divinity.

BTW, if sending a go'el is problematic in your eyes, how much more so
would be bringing him -- as that doesn't even imply the separation between
G-d and the redeemer that sending does? IOW, why would you be okay with
"umeivi go'el livnei veneihem" if you won't even countenance shelichus?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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