‘Hasten The Coming of The Messiah’
The decorated letters have adorned the gate of Jerusalem for years many. As many as the number of years in which Messiah sits under the exact same gate, stroking his faithful donkey, waiting for the glorious moment. Oh, for countless times he had sailed imagining the time when he’d enter the city’s gate, ridden on his donkey, and redeem the masses!
Indeed, our Messiah, in spite of all his sublime characteristics, has always been impatient. Every day he would approach humbly, but devoutly, the passers-by, pleading them, hoping that those would be found worthy of redemption. Those, however, were mostly busy passing-by, and Messiah marked yet another line in his long table of despair. In the evening he would turn to feed his donkey, and watch him while he ate; And every time he redeemed the donkey from hunger to satiety, he felt as if he had redeemed the whole wide world.
One fine morning, Messiah decided to take on an unprecedented act. An act like which the world has not yet seen - neither this world nor the next one. Messiah decided to hasten his coming with his own hands. My moderate attempts are not sufficient, he thought. Desperate times call for desperate measures, the purpose sanctifies them, and they’re all kosher.
The Messiah gathered some of the copper coins occasionally thrown at him by the passers-by (in order to get rid of him), and published a small ad in the local…
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