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Is Belief in Moshiach a Fundamental Tennet in Judaism?

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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near completion at the end of this year because I think this will be the last topic that we discuss uh in the in this series and this is an amazing uh question that somebody actually apprised me of this week and I forget the gentleman's name but I appreciate he lives in Gad Zev and he asked me if I'm going to be dealing with this question and I'll tell you the truth I was not aware of this question question but I was very I woke up uh to work on it this morning and it's a very interesting question I actually mentioned in the last night we know there are 13 principles of Faith who created the Y the rambam where did the rambam get that there are we're going to discuss that at first glance it seems unusual we have 613 mitv if anyone doesn't believe in 613 mitv if anyone doesn't believe in anything in the Tyra they a so what exactly does it mean that there are 13 principles 13 tenants presumably a tenant means something that without it the whole Bion would collapse what is a foundation a foundation is something that without it the whole Bion would collapse I understand why belief in God is a tenant of Judaism without it there could be no t i understand why reward and punishment is a tenant because and punishment is a tenant because without it the tah cannot stand I understand why the divine origin of the tah is AAR without it the whole Bion cannot stand but we know the r made and one of the is the belief in the coming of mhia many people say after the r did not write that those are not the words of the ramam it's based on the ramam the question is and this is a little bit

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  1. 0:30near completion at the end of this year because I think this will be the last
  2. 4:06theer concludes it is not a tenant of Judaism to believe in the coming of Messiah
  3. 8:12with that now he brings from one of his students of in the ofi that's mentioned
  4. 11:57it is not a foundation to build any Torah worldview upon but the foundation of everything
  5. 16:05is but most disagreed with him so let's say a guy publicly cut wood to make
  6. 19:52fine and the disagrees with the r quotes the ra that according to the r one
  7. 24:34shs now one thing's for sure let's say somebody he's a doesn't believe that the 17th
  8. 28:08that and the purpose of is to get the T So Shapiro suggests when the rambam
  9. 32:14the another approach which I think is very interesting is from Pinkus in the P he
  10. 35:53differently if Messiah will never come and God will never take us back then what are

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