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2 unusual facts about Menahem ben Hezekiah


Menahem ben Hezekiah

Menahem ben Hezekiah was a quasi-Messianic Jewish teacher born on the day the Second Temple was destroyed.

Messiah ben Joseph

In the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 98b Menahem ben Hezekiah is also mentioned along with a list of other names of the messiah suggested by different rabbis.


Menahem ben Judah

He may be identical with the Menahem ben Hezekiah mentioned in the Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin 98b) and called "the comforter that should relieve", and is to be distinguished from Menahem ben Ammiel, the Messiah of the Sefer Zerubbabel.


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