Part 1 was about understanding the Biblical ailment of Tzaraat. This Part 2 is about how Tzaraat is applicable to Messianic Times.

1. www.AboutMoshiach.com An introduction to
SIGNS of Moshiach
Part 2

2. Contents
Part 1 – Tzaraat & its deeper meaning
Part 2 – How Tzaraat is applicable
before Moshiach comes
Part 3 – Terminal Tzaraat

3. Summary from Part 1
Literal Sense of Tzaraat Deeper Sense of Tzaraat
Not seen since Biblical Times Because very high level required (perfection with no
bad left inside)
The cause is ill speech Because the Metzora is so high he has problems with
expressing his high levels.
On the skin Only external (inside – all good). What people see.
Bright white spots White is good but too bright is problematic (dazzles).
Very impure He has immense spiritual energy – can do a lot of
damage if not conveyed appropriately.
Expulsion from community Because he’s too high he cannot fit in amongst others.
“The Torah (is the process) of
the Metzora’s purification”
Teaching Torah will enable the Metzora’s purification.
Purification also through
Cedar-wood and hyssop
Metzora to remain a cedar but adopt humility of
hyssop.
Not all Tzaraat instances are
impure
Tzaraat in reality is a good thing. Just needs to be in a
pure form.

4. So what’s Tzaraat got to do with Moshiach?

5. You guessed it.
Moshiach will be a Metzora.
(Talmud, Sanhedrin 98a & 98b and Rashi there)

6. What’s changing at the end of days
to bring Tzaraat from ancient times
back into play?

7. • Think bigger.
• True, it’s been less and less likely to find
people who would meet the Tzaraat criteria.
• But the journey of the world is heading right
toward a state of Tzaraat…
Global Perspective

8. The hefty criteria for Tzaraat are:
1. Perfection (in the realm of Good)
2. No mixture of bad inside (in the realm of Evil)
Remember

9. 1. Global Perfection
• Each generation accomplished one piece of
the puzzle –
• The puzzle of a perfect world.
• So by the time Moshiach comes the puzzle
would be virtually complete.
• Perfection in a global/historical sense.
• The world will have
fulfilled the 1st criterion
of Tzaraat.

10. How Would We Know?
• How can you tell the world is nearing the age
of perfection?
• Just look for the Positive Signs of Moshiach.
• (To be illustrated on AboutMoshiach.com in due course, G-d willing)

11. 2. No Bad Within World
• Throughout the ages
• Evils have been surfacing
• And getting cleansed.
• By the time we get to the end,
• The world is all good –
• At least under the surface.
• Hence the world will have fulfilled this 2nd
Tzaraat criterion also.

12. How Would We Know?
• How can you tell all evils have been cleansed?
• When you see Deep Evil celebrating.
• Refer to the Deep Evil slides for more details.

13. Tzaraat Comes to the World
• So before the Coming of Moshiach,
• The world will fulfill the Tzaraat criteria
• (1) perfection and (2) no evils inside.
That calls for Tzaraat…

14. What sort of “Tzaraat”
can the World experience?

15. Messianic Tzaraat
• Like the Metzora who has become much
higher than the community –
• The Messianic Times will involve great
spiritual revelations,
• Above and beyond what the world could
normally handle.
• That’s the “Tzaraat” the world will face with
the Coming of Moshiach.

16. Question is:
How will this “Messianic Tzaraat” be expressed
in the world?

17. Two Extreme Reactions
• Like the Metzora can either be very welcomed
or distanced by the community –
• Messianic Tzaraat could either kindle and
captivate the world,
• Or the world can reject and repel it.

18. Pure Messianic Tzaraat
• If the Messianic Tzaraat will be welcomed by
the world,
• The Messianic Age will then commence.
• That’s like the pure form of Tzaraat.
• A positive wow.
• We hope and pray for this…
• And it will ultimately be achieved.

19. Impure Messianic Tzaraat
• However if Messianic Tzaraat is rejected –
• The onset of the Messianic Age gets delayed.
• In the meantime we have extreme impurity –
• Like the impure form of Tzaraat.
• A negative wow (Oy Vey)

20. The Effect of Impure Messianic Tzaraat
• There are many problems before Moshiach
comes…
• The birth pangs of Moshiach.
• But if the solution to these problems is
rejected –
• The problems are exacerbated…

21. Moshiach – a “Metzora”
• Bringing Messianic Tzaraat into the world is
Moshiach’s job.
• Hence he is labelled as a “Metzora”.
• Intrinsically –
• Because even though initially it may be in the
impure form,
• Ultimately it’ll be in the pure form.
• Either way, Messianic Tzaraat is what he’s about.

22. Inside Skin Outside
The
Person
Increasing good,
Decreasing bad
Once perfection achieved
–>
His high levels
become physically
visible on his skin
Others are exposed to his high
levels.
And either reject or embrace.
The
World
Working toward spiritual
perfection of the world,
throughout history.
Not so visible (“inside”).
Once achieved –>
Messianic Tzaraat
becomes physically
visible in the world.
Through Moshiach &
his generation
The world (“outside”) is exposed
to Messianic Tzaraat.
They either reject or embrace.
Summary So Far

23. Now, why would Messianic Tzaraat be rejected?

24. • Well, why was the Metzora rejected by the
community?
• They couldn’t grasp his high levels.
• There was a gap.

25. • And at the end of days:
• We have the impending Messianic Tzaraat on
the one hand (inside),
• The world as we see it on the other (outside),
• And a gap in between…
There’s a Gap

26. The Gap in
The Realm of Good
Inside Skin Outside
Messianic revelations
ready for sharing…
What are you talking about?
Not interested!

27. The Gap in
The Realm of Evil
How it is inside Skin What you see outside
Cleaned up of all evils Deep Evil amassed for all to see

28. No Insight
• Why this big gap?
• Because we reside on the “outside”.
• So we see the exact opposite of Messianic
Times (Deep Evil).
• And anyway, what is this Messianic Age that’s
coming up?
• What does the “inside” looks like?
• We have no insight.

29. So how on earth will we welcome
Moshiach and his Tzaraat –
and what’s more –
with excitement??

30. Need to close the gap.

31. Torah
• The remedy of the Metzora is
Torah.
• Because it’s the only medium
by which
• The highest (= most foreign)
spiritual concepts,
• Can be expressed in worldly
terms and “move” even a truck
driver from Pennsylvania.

32. Moshiach will also need to use Torah
to cure Messianic Tzaraat.

33. Torah About Moshiach
• Moshiach will need to do a lot of explaining:
• Torah teachings to bring the lofty Messianic
Tzaraat within reach of the lowest common
denominator.
• Dress it in the worldly contexts that we know.
• So we can relate to it and embrace.
• And not reject and estrange.

34. Humility of Moshiach
• The Metzora was well versed in Torah.
• His problem was lack of humility.
• Although Moshiach will be so great –
• As alluded in his “riding with the clouds of Heaven”
(Daniel 7:13) –
• True greatness is coupled with humility (Talmud Megila 31a)
• And the greater – the more humble. (Zohar Intro 11)
• Indeed, Moshiach will also need to be “a pauper riding
on a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9) –
• A reference to his humility.

35. Visual Illustrations
• It’s hard to explain a foreign concept without
some visual aid.
• True we can’t see the Messianic
theme that’s been cooking under
the surface,
• But we can see the skin –
• The pre-Moshiach generation.

36. Drastic Symptoms
• And when this skin starts changing,
• In a loud, acute, and unheard-of fashion,
• That’s Messianic Tzaraat being expressed on it.
• The Messianic Times are no longer just
abstract, futuristic, fairy-tale theory.

37. Religious Signs
• Torah scholars generally have a lot on their
shoulders.
• And when it comes to Messianic Tzaraat
• And its cure (Torah-about-Moshiach) –
• Torah scholars are also responsible.
• Not only Moshiach.
• Hence Messianic Tzaraat is reflected on them
• Viz. the “bad”, religious-type signs of Moshiach.

38. Learning is 2-Way
• Moshiach and the scholars are accountable for
Messianic Tzaraat –
• To purify it.
• But are we going to sit and watch?
• Closing the gap is not
a one-way street.
• We can start putting
2 and 2 together.

39. Transformation
• Lucky Tzaraat is not a terminal illness.
• The Metzora can become pure.
• He has a remedy! (Torah)
• Those Bad (impure) Signs of Moshiach
• Can also be transformed into good (pure).
• There’s a remedy (Torah about Moshiach).

40. How Does it Look Now?
• The Torah about Moshiach
• Coupled with humility
• Will heal the gap
• And enable the flow of the impending
Messianic energy into the world.
• The impure Tzaraat (Gola) will be purified
(Geula).

41. Summary
Person (Part 1) World (Part 2)
What is Tzaraat? An unnatural disease
that comes to the
person
Unnatural maladies that come
to the world
When is it applicable? When the person
reaches completeness
When the job of spiritualising
the world has been completed.
Why does it come? Expressing his lofty state
to people in the other
extreme – big gap
Expression of the lofty
Messianic levels to the
masses. A huge gap.
Where expressed? In the skin – the outer,
visible parts are infected
with extreme impurity
In the last generations of Gola
(the skin of the entire working
history)
The remedy: Torah teaching &
humility
Torah teaching & humility
about Moshiach

42. There’s actually one other type of Tzaraat...
When the whole thing turns white…

43. Coming next

44. Some Appendices

45. “What’s his [Moshiach’s]
name?... The white-one
of Rebbi’s family” –
as it says (Isaiah 53:4):
“Surely our diseases he
did bear, and our pains he
carried; whereas we
esteemed him as plagued,
smitten of G-d, and
afflicted.”
‫רבי‬ ‫דבי‬ ‫חיוורא‬ … ‫שמו‬? ‫מה‬
(‫נ״ג‬ ‫ישעי‬-‫ה‬ ) ‫שנאמר‬
‫ּו‬ ‫א‬ ָ‫ָש‬‫נ‬ ‫הּוא‬ ‫נּו‬ֵ‫י‬ָ‫ל‬ֳ‫ח‬ ‫ן‬ֵ‫כ‬‫ָא‬‫ינּו‬ֵ‫ב‬ֹ ‫ְא‬‫כ‬ ַ‫מ‬
ְ‫ב‬ ַ‫ש‬ֲ‫ח‬ ‫נּו‬ְ‫ח‬ַ‫נ‬ֲ‫א‬ַ‫ו‬ ‫ָם‬‫ל‬ָ‫ב‬ְ‫ס‬‫ֻהּו‬‫נ‬ַ‫ָגּוע‬‫נ‬
‫ֶּה‬‫נ‬ֻ‫ע‬ ְ‫ּומ‬ ‫ים‬ִ‫ֹלה‬ֱ‫א‬ ‫ה‬ֵ‫כ‬ ֻ‫מ‬
“Metzora”
(Rashi et al)
“Nega”
(Tzaraat instance)
Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b:
“Metzora”
(Rashi et al)
“Nega”
(Tzaraat instance)

46. Summary from Deep Evil
Trend When Moshiach
Comes
Tzaraat
Implications
Torah
Increasing Peak with the Torah of
Moshiach
Immense positive
energy that needs to be
expressed in the world
Goodness
Adding more and more in
different times, places
and circumstances to
build a spiritual puzzle
Puzzle complete
The two Tzaraat criteria
are fulfilled
Evil
Decreasing under the
surface
Under the surface all
clean
Increasing on the surface Deepest evils on the
surface How will these energies
be accepted?Personal
Ability
Decreasing Rock bottom