{"id":1939,"date":"2014-10-01T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2014-10-01T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:11:47","slug":"elijah-the-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/10\/01\/elijah-the-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah the Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramchal doesn\u2019t discuss Elijah at any length in his works but we will at this juncture since he\u2019s cited at the end of the verses of Malachi we quoted above, and since he\u2019ll play an important role in the onset of the Messianic Era.<\/p>\n<p>The clearest exposition of Elijah\u2019s role in the end of days is presented at the end of Tractate <em>Eduyot<\/em> (8:7). We\u2019re told there that \u201cElijah will come to (the world in the Messianic Era in order to) solve disputations (among the sages\u2019 redactions) \u2026 to bring peace to the world, \u2026 and to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers\u201d, which is to say that he will establish peace and harmony in the world so that God can establish the same throughout the universe by manifesting His <em>Yichud<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<br \/>\nFeel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:feldman@torah.org\">feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman&#8217;s translation of Maimonides&#8217; &#8220;Eight Chapters&#8221; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.targum.com\/product.php\/378\/the-8-chapters-of-the-rambam--shemonah-perakim\">here<\/a> at a discount.<\/p>\n<p>You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman&#8217;s translation of &#8220;The Gates of Repentance&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/49s8t\">here<\/a> at a discount as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon &#8220;The Path of the Just&#8221; and &#8220;The Duties of the Heart&#8221; (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/learning\/spiritual-excellence\/archives.html\">Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/learning\/ramchal\/archives.html\">Ramchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramchal doesn\u2019t discuss Elijah at any length in his works but we will at this juncture since he\u2019s cited at the end of the verses of Malachi we quoted above, and since he\u2019ll play an important role in the onset &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/10\/01\/elijah-the-prophet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabbalah-jewish-thought-ramchal-torah-hashkafa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}