The Jewish Tradition of Messianic Time

walter benyamin looks to the jewish tradition to offer a different vision of waiting. And he develops the notion of messianic time in his very influential text on the concept of history. So it might seem like waiting for the messiah as something that happens in a far distant future, and you're just kind of passively wading around. But that's not at all what is happening in the jewISH tradition of messianism.

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