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The Messiah in Judaism (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized: māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, [1] [2] and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally anointed with holy ...
In Judaism, the messiah will be a future Jewish king from the line of David and redeemer of the Jewish people and humanity. [1] [6] In Christianity, Jesus is the messiah, [note 1] the savior, the redeemer, and God. [1] [3] In Islam, Jesus was a prophet and the messiah of the Jewish people who will return in the end times. [3]
In Judaism, Ha-mashiach (המשיח, 'the Messiah'), [3] [a] often referred to as melekh ha-mashiach (מלך המשיח, 'King Messiah'), [5] is a fully human non-deity Jewish leader, physically descended via a human genetic father of an unbroken paternal Davidic line through King David and King Solomon.
Central to this belief is the conviction that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, is the awaited Messiah who is leading the Jewish people into the Messianic era. [2] [3] [4]: 24 [5] The concept of the messiah is a basic tenet of the Jewish religion.
The Quran states that Jesus was the Messiah and prophet sent to the Jews. [Quran 3:45] Muslims believe he is alive in Heaven, and will return to Earth to defeat the Masih ad-Dajjal, an anti-messiah comparable to the Christian Antichrist. It is disputed whether Isa's Messianic age will be for 40 days or for 40 years.
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.
Jesus the Son of God: Some Messianic Jews, who reject Trinitarian doctrine and Arian doctrine, believe that the Jewish Messiah is the son of God in the general sense (Jewish people are children of God) and that the Jewish Messiah is a mere human, the promised Prophet. Some Messianic Jews believe Jewish Messiah is the pre-existent Word of God ...
Orthodox Jews believes that a future Jewish messiah (the Mashiach, "anointed one") will be a king who will rule the Jewish people independently and according to Jewish law. In a traditional view, the Messiah was understood to be a human descendant of King David (that is, of the Davidic line). [40]