Messiah Ben Joseph - Jews Considered The Messiah Ben Joseph

Jews Considered The Messiah Ben Joseph

  • Bar Abba (1st century CE).
  • Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–1572) thought himself Messiah ben Joseph and Rabbi Hayyim Vital his heir.
  • Hayyim Vital (1543–1620) named Messiah ben Joseph in a 1574 letter of Abraham Shalom.
  • Joshua Heschel Zoref (b.1633): claimed to be Messiah ben Joseph, with Shabbetai Zvi as the Jewish Messiah.
  • Judah Leib Prossnitz (c.1670-1730): claimed to be Messiah ben Joseph, with Shabbetai Zvi as the Jewish Messiah.
  • Theodore Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) referred to him as this Messiah ben Joseph, the one who is helping to pave the way for Messiah ben David.

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