| Although monasticism is not part of mainstream Judaism, the Essenes, a messianic sect, founded a remote community by the Dead Sea. |
| The establishment of a nation state fueled messianic visions, and may have concretized some ideas that should have been kept more fluid. |
| Lefties perfected long ago the enlistment of Jesus in their secular messianic causes. |
| An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples. |
| The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy. |
| Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world. |
