Il Messia di Israele

Il Messia, è forse un semplice uomo, come lo si pensa generalmente nel giudaismo tradizionale, oppure è egli divino, come lo dicono i cristiani? Il concetto del Messia divino proviene da influenze greche e pagane, oppure è radicato nella Bibbia? Questa idea è un'invenzione del Nuovo Testamento oppure possiamo trovare degli indizi e delle tracce nelle Scritture Ebraiche (l'Antico Testamento) e nella letteratura ebraica?

Leggete sulla divinità del Messia negli scritti patristici, nel Nuovo Testamento, nell'Antico Testamento e nella letteratura ebraica.

The Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. The term describes the inner life of God, who is an eternal communion of Persons and a Family whose life is love. Is the concept of the Trinity a Christian invention, derived from Greco-Roman pagan ideas? Or do we already find hints of the Trinity in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish sources?

The Feasts of Israel recall God's deliverance of the Israelites and his care for them throughout their history: the Exodus out of Egypt, the journey through the desert, the giving of the law and the arrival in the promised land of Canaan. But the feasts also go beyond this first meaning: They are also a shadow of God's salvation plan for humanity through Christ.  This essay will examine the Jewish Holy Days in the Torah, in Jewish tradition and in the New Testament, and will analyze how these Holy Days serve as a shadow of the Messiah.

A study of the river flowing from Ezekiel's Temple (Ezek 47:1-12) and its underlying themes: Jerusalem and Zion as the Lord's cosmic mountain; water as a prophetic sign of eschatological healing; the Garden of Eden.  The Feast of Tabernacles and its water libation ceremony in the Temple actualized these themes and anticipated God's future outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus' words uttered during the same feast show that he identified himself with Ezekiel's temple and is the giver of the waters of life – the Holy Spirit. The eschatology of the book of Revelation and the vision of "a pure river of water of life" proceeding from the throne of God recapitulate and expand Ezekiel's vision by incorporating the other prophetic themes and Jesus' self-revelation.

This coming Saturday night begins the fast of Tisha b'av on which we mourn the destruction of both the first and second Temples. According to the midrash, the messiah was born on Tisha b’av, when the first Temple, the Temple of Solomon, was destroyed. Something happened when the Temple was destroyed that kicked off the final redemption.