This is a reprint of a cover story that first appeared in the April 2007 issue of Israel Today Magazine
A few months before he died, one of the nation’s most prominent rabbis, Yitzhak Kaduri, supposedly wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was unsealed, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), is the Messiah.
With the biblical name of Jesus, the Rabbi and kabbalist described the Messiah using six words and hinting that the initial letters form the name of the Messiah. The secret note said:
Concerning the letter abbreviation of the Messiah’s name, He will lift the people and prove that his word and law are valid.
This I have signed in the month of mercy,
Yitzhak Kaduri
The Hebrew sentence (translated above in bold) with the hidden name of the Messiah reads:
Yarim Ha’Am Veyokhiakh Shedvaro Vetorato Omdim
[Tuostahan tulee YHVShVO. Noh, kirjain 'vav' dagesh-pisteen kaa (piste konsonanttimerkin sisällä)
lienee useimmiten 'shureq' eli toinen u-vokaalia tarkoittavista merkeistä. Toisaalta, jos nikkud-piste
on vav-konsonantin yläpuolella, kyseessä on o-vokaalia tarkoittava Holem-vav. Vain muutaman kuukauden
hepreaa harrastaneena en kykene het'kohta selittämään viimeistä o-äännettä -> yehoshuo, ei yehoshua...
(edit) Höh, tuohan lienee aivan päivänselvä juttu: jos allaolevasta hepreankielisestä lauseesta otetaan sanojen
alkukirjaimet (suomalaisittain, oikealta vasemmalle: jod, hee, vav [= o], sin/shin, vav [= u], ajin), niistä muodostunee Jeesuksen nimen kirjoitusasu nykyheprealla, tyypillisesti ilman nikkud'eja eli vokaalimerkkejä! Sanan 'omdim' o-äänne tulee
siitä, että "äänetöntä" ajin-konsonanttia seuraa 'vav', joka tuossa tapauksessa on holem vav, eli 'o', ei shureq eli 'u'!]
ירים העם ויוכיח שדברו ותורתו עומדים
Kaduri’s Portrayal of the Messiah
A few months before Kaduri died at the age of 108, he surprised his followers when he told them that he met the Messiah. Kaduri gave a message in his synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, teaching how to recognize the Messiah. He also mentioned that the Messiah would appear to Israel after Ariel Sharon’s death. (The former prime minister is still in a coma after suffering a massive stroke more than a year ago.) Other rabbis predict the same, including Rabbi Haim Cohen, kabbalist Nir Ben Artzi and the wife of Rabbi Haim Kneiveskzy.
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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23877/Default.aspx
