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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
ירים העם ויוכיח שדברו ותורתו עומדים
The initials spell the Hebrew name of Jesus יהושוע . Yehoshua and Yeshua are effectively the same name, derived from the same Hebrew root of the word “salvation” as documented in Zechariah 6:11 and Ezra 3:2. The same priest writes in Ezra, “Yeshua (ישוע) son of Yozadak” while writing in Zechariah “Yehoshua (יהושוע) son of Yohozadak.” The priest adds the holy abbreviation of God’s name, ho (הו), in the father’s name Yozadak and in the name Yeshua.
With one of Israel’s most prominent rabbis indicating the name of the Messiah is Yeshua, it is understandable why his last wish was to wait one year after his death before revealing what he wrote.
When the name of Yehoshua appeared in Kaduri’s message, ultra-Orthodox Jews from his Nahalat Yitzhak Yeshiva (seminary) in Jerusalem argued that their master did not leave the exact solution for decoding the Messiah’s name.
The revelation received scant coverage in the Israeli media. Only the Hebrew websites News First Class (Nfc) and Kaduri.net mentioned the Messiah note, insisting it was authentic. The Hebrew daily Ma’ariv ran a story on the note but described it as a forgery.
Jewish readers responded on the websites’ forums with mixed feelings: “So this means Rabbi Kaduri was a Christian?” and “The Christians are dancing and celebrating,” were among the comments.
Israel Today spoke to two of Kaduri’s followers in Jerusalem who admitted that the note was authentic, but confusing for his followers as well. “We have no idea how the Rabbi got to this name of the Messiah,” one of them said.
Plans for a state funeral begin to be discussed behind the scenes as comatose former premier's health declines.
Former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s condition continued to deteriorate at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer on Thursday as plans for a state funeral began to be discussed behind the scenes.
Sharon, now 85, had made clear that he preferred to be buried at his Negev home – Sycamore Ranch – next to his late wife Lily and not in the traditional grave-site for former prime ministers on Mount Herzl in the capital. The Prime Minister’s Office would handle arrangements for a funeral together with Sharon’s sons, Gilad and Omri.
It was unclear on Thursday whether many world leaders and foreign ministers would come to the funeral, as they have to the recent funerals of former South African president Nelson Mandela and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke warmly of Sharon in his Jerusalem press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
A close confidant of Sharon who visited his hospital bed on Thursday told The Jerusalem Post that since he entered a coma after his stroke, the former prime minister’s family always hoped in vain that something would happen that would enable him to return to his former health. He said it was unclear how long Sharon would live.
“Nobody knows, not even the doctor, how long he could hold on,” the confidant said.
“If there is anything positive that emerged from this, it is the response from the public. We thought that after eight years nobody would care, but it’s not so.”
Saturday marks eight years since Sharon’s severe second stroke.
At press time, Sharon remained in critical condition, and his life remained in danger due to a deterioration in the function of vital organs, Prof. Ze’ev Rotstein, head of Sheba Medical Center, said.