"Mashiach is Near"

Jews as a nation, in the most majestic passage of Scripture concerning their Mashiach (Messiah), have yet to recognize the suffering Servant of the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah as their Yeshua Ben David, they spiritualize it.

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits writes: "God's chosen people is the suffering servant of God. The majestic fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is the description of Israel's martyrology through the centuries" (Prager & Telushkin, 1975, p. 89, emphasis added).

Rabbi Morris Kertzer writes: "Today, only the extreme orthodox still cling to the literal belief in the coming of a Messiah. … Most Jews, however, have reinterpreted the age-old belief in a Messiah, not as an individual Redeemer, but as mankind collectively, who by their own acts can usher in a Kingdom of Heaven" (Morris N. Kertzer, What is a Jew, 1953, p. 39, emphasis added).

Shneeraleh, Peraleh
Strings of pearls, and banners made of gold
Mashiach Ben David is coming we are told
Holding a goblet in his right hand
Making a blessing, blessing all the land

Amen and Amen, this is true,
Mashiach is coming, through me and through you
Amen and Amen, this is clear,
Mashiach is coming, Mashiach is near.
(tr., Shirona, emphasis added)

After Birkenau and Treblinka and Ravensbrueck and Camp David and Oslo and a never ending “Road Map” to "peace," Israel has conceded. She has joined the world in spiritualizing His Word; yet it matters not, their Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, will keep His Covenant:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn (Zechariah 12:9-10, emphasis added).

The Land of Israel
O land where the Shekinah shone,
Whose hills by One Were trod,
Writ in the volume of the Book—
The promised One of God:
Rich blessings will from thee proceed
To earth’s remotest bound
Wen thy lost sons, at home again,
Immanuel have found.
(Max I. Reich, Sweet Singer of Israel, Moody Press: Chicago, 1948, pp. 152,159).