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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: Isaac Balbin via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>> Moshiach Ben Yosef prepares the
ground for Moshiach Ben David. Once so<BR>prepared, there is a potential
Moshiach Ben David at all times amongst<BR>the living. Rav Kook held that Herzl
was Moshiach Ben Yosef, and that<BR>it didn't need to even be a religious
person.<<<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Is there anyone alive today who knows that he is from the tribe of Ephraim,
Menashe or Binyamin? I assume that the way the shevatim will be restored
to us is that Eliyahu Hanavi will come and tell each person what shevet he's
from, ben achar ben, and that at least some of us are from shevatim other than
Yehuda and Levi, unbeknownst to us. So does Eliyahu Hanavi have to come
before Moshiach ben Yosef can come, so that people will actually know they're
from Yosef? Or is it the case that Moshiach ben Yosef does not have to
know that he's from Yosef, and does not even have to know that he's
a Moshiach?</DIV>
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<DIV><B><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</FONT><FONT lang=0
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