Days of the Messiah

The period that will come after the Messiah's arrival.

("Then Ben Zoma said to the sages: And why is the Exodus from Egypt mentioned in the days of the Messiah? Was it not already said (Jeremiah 23), 'Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no longer say, “As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt...”' They said to him: It is not that the Exodus from Egypt will be uprooted from its place, but rather that the subjugation of the kingdoms will be primary, and the Exodus from Egypt secondary to it." - Berakhot 12b; and also: "Believe and think that the promised good is indeed the days of the Messiah; may he reveal it soon, and in that time all people will be perpetual kings..." - Maimonides, Commentary on the Mishnah, Introduction to Chapter Ḥelek, p. 305; and also: "For us, the residents of Damascus, the days when Rabbi Ḥayyim sat in Damascus were like the days of the Messiah" - Y. Burla, Kisufim, 48; and also: "In my childhood synagogue / I sang, 'Come, bride, come, bride' on Sabbath nights / with the feeling of a groom, I trained myself in longing for the days of the Messiah" - Yehuda Amichai, The Prayers Remain Forever)

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