If a king will arise from the House of David who diligently contemplates the Torah and observes its mitzvot as prescribed by the Written Law and the Oral Law as David, his ancestor, will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and rectify the breaches in its observance, and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him Moshiach. If he succeeds in the above, builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Moshiach. He will then improve the entire world, motivating all the nations to serve God together, as Tzephaniah 3:9 states: I will transform the peoples to a purer language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose. If he did not succeed to this degree or was killed, he surely is not the redeemer promised by the Torah. Rather, he should be considered as all the other proper and complete kings of the Davidic dynasty who died. God caused him to arise only to test the many, as Daniel 11:35 states: And some of the wise men will stumble, to try them, to refine, and to clarify until the appointed time, because the set time is in the future. Ref: Halacha 04, Chapter 11, Melachim uMilchamot, Mishneh Torah
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:03:43 +0000
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