Tree of Souls (Schwartz)

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Texts from Howard Schwartz's Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, a landmark anthology gathering myths and legends spanning the full arc of Jewish tradition, from the creation of the world to the coming of the Messiah.

The Messianic Torah

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The notion that everything we've learned, everything we've strived to understand, is just a stepping stone to something even greater. According to some traditions, this Messianic T...

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A Tabernacle For The Righteous

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We get glimpses, whispers, from our tradition. And some of them are pretty wild. Take this one, about the skin of the Leviathan... So, picture this: the World to Come, Olam Ha-Ba. ...

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The New Jerusalem

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But what if those limits…vanished? The prophet Isaiah paints a breathtaking picture of the future, a time of ultimate peace and harmony. He proclaims, "New moon after new moon, and...

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Messianic Jerusalem

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Because that's precisely the dilemma Jewish tradition grapples with when envisioning the Messianic Era – the time when all the righteous are resurrected. Where, oh where, will ever...

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The Golden Gate Of The Messiah

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Jewish tradition is rich with imagery of the End of Days, and one particularly potent symbol keeps popping up: a gate. Not just any gate, but the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. Now, Jer...

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The Descent Of The Heavenly Temple

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A world where the divide between heaven and earth blurs, and the sacred becomes tangibly real. What if I told you that in Jewish tradition, there's a vision of the future where the...

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The Creation Of The Third Temple

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And at the heart of it all lies the mystery of the Third Temple. The tradition tells us that in the End of Days, a great Ingathering of the Exiles will occur, and we'll hear the fo...

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Rebuilding The Temple

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A world where sorrow turns to song, and ruins give way to radiant hope. What does that world look like? For many Jewish traditions, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem is cen...

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The Messianic Spring

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A world healed. What would that look like? Jewish tradition paints vivid pictures of the Messianic Age, a time when the world is perfected, suffering is banished, and the divine pr...

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