"What Does the Mashiach Look Like?"

"Another Question - Where is the Mashiach?"

With these probing questions, the kabbalist, the esteemed Rabbi Aharon Stern shlit"a opens his words and immediately continues to answer them, these are his holy words.

"I believe with complete emunah (faith) in the coming of the Mashiach, and even though he may delay, with all this I will await him every day that he should come - a Jew does not despair, he is our father, he is our king, he is our savior and he will save us, but let me describe the Mashiach to you."

"I do not say this from my heart, but from the prophet Isaiah 53: Who has believed our report, a report throughout the world, a report in all media and communication tools."

"And the arm of Hashem, upon whom has it been revealed. And he grew up like a tender plant before Him, like a baby, and like a root out of dry ground, he comes from a place of troubles."

"He has no form or majesty, he does not look like one with a beautiful white beard, and we saw him, and there was no appearance, that we should desire him, he will not appear to us as a pleasant person at all, is this the Mashiach?"

"Do you know how he will look?"

"Despised and rejected by men, this is not what I say, but the prophet. A man of pains, full of wounds, full of suffering, and acquainted with illness, they say about him: he has been sick for years."

"But what is the truth?"

"And as one from whom men hide their faces, he is hidden, King David was also hidden. Rabbi Leibowitz, peace be upon him, told me, to King David came the prophet Samuel, about whom it is said: Moses and Aaron among His priests and Samuel among those who call upon His name, Samuel the seer, and he thought David was a criminal! He did not recognize David! How can it be? The great Samuel did not recognize David?"

"But King David was hidden even from Samuel! The Mashiach will also be hidden!"

"Despised and we did not esteem him, we did not consider him, but what is the truth? Surely he has borne our illnesses all the diseases we should suffer, he took upon himself."

"And our pains he carried; and what did we think? And we thought him stricken, why does he have troubles? Because he is smitten of God, suspected of committing many sins, but in truth, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed, but where is he?"

"Let us reach the end of the chapter in Isaiah: And he was numbered with the transgressors, want to find the Mashiach? He hides among the criminals!"

"A friend told me that once someone was fleeing from the police and needed to escape, what did they do? They made a car of a bride and groom, disguised themselves as a bride and groom, and escaped. I said, how wonderful, why does Hashem hide the Mashiach?"

"In Parshat Noach, the holy Zohar says the secrets of the Torah, page 74b, the secrets of the Torah: the generation of the dispersion who built the Tower of Babel said: Let us build us a city and a tower, a city against the city of Zion, and a tower against the Tower of David. That is, the generation of the dispersion already planned to prevent King David, the city of Zion. They planned to build something in impurity to cancel and destroy the city of Zion, King David, and the building of the Holy Temple."

"Hashem had to take Lot and his daughters to hide the King Mashiach there, to hide him in Sodom, from there will come the King Mashiach, to hide him through the act of Judah and Tamar, to hide him through the act of Boaz and Ruth. When Boaz married Ruth, they said: Ruth is a Moabite and it is forbidden to marry her - from her will come the King Mashiach!"

"On the night of the wedding, Boaz passed away, and they said about him, Boaz committed a sin, therefore he died. Only after all this could King David emerge, Hashem had to hide him in a thousand hidings, the Mashiach of Hashem who is the pinnacle, he is the rectification of the world, to rectify the world in the kingdom of Shaddai - Hashem hides him among the criminals, where no one looks."

"Who prevents the Mashiach from coming?"

"The Satan! The adversary and his forces!"

"What will Hashem do? He will rejoice over you, your God, and as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride, Hashem will bring a car of a bride and groom and bring the Mashiach from there, and what joy we will have then, and as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride, your God will rejoice over you. Again will be heard in the cities of Judah, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride when they bring the King Mashiach."

"May it be Hashem's will that the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily in our days, and grant us our portion in Your Torah, may salvation come from Zion for Israel."

"David, King of Israel, lives and endures."