What Is Called Thinking?

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(When) Is the Messiah Coming?

(When) Is the Messiah Coming?

The Alter Rebbe and Negative Eschatology

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Zohar Atkins
Apr 15, 2021
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The Alter Rebbe would say, “The Messiah we are waiting for isn’t coming. The Messiah we aren’t waiting for is coming.”

The Alter Rebbe fits a constellation of thinkers who challenge the average understanding of the Messiah as a person who will arrive at a specific historical moment. His statement is a kind of negative eschatology—the Messiah is definitio…

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