Mulling over LEE LOFASO to STEVE ASHER 30 Jan 2005

Hi Lee...

SA>I had a look last night, but I didn't find anything of much interest.
SA>One site dismissed the heifers so far produced as ineligible, & there
SA>is some stuff about whether the heifer will be sacrificed in the temple,
SA>or if it is enough to do it in site of the temple, etc. Some see the
SA>sequence as: perfect red heifer -> sacrifice -> building of temple ->
SA>coming of Moshiach. I suspect that the Sanhedrin will be formally
SA>reinstituted, & it will rule on what is required, but I might be
SA>wrong. I will keep watching for anything new.

 LL> Once the new Sanhedrin is convened, it will interpret the law to
 LL> mean whatever it wants it to mean.  After all, it will be the
 LL> Sanhedrin which makes the law.  It will be the Sanhedrin which
 LL> interprets the law.  And it will be the Sanhedrin which enforces
 LL> the law.  Since that is the case, it will be the Sanhedrin which
 LL> ushers in the new Moshiach, proclaiming that Moshiach to be the
 LL> *real* Moshiach.

Yes to all of your points, which of course rules out most of the
popular "suspects" for the role of Antichrist. I can't see a Sanhedrin
acknowledging the Pope as Moshiach any time soon, no matter how many
books are written on the subject, and how much "evidence" is presented.

Hmmm... a Jewish Pope, perhaps?

Cheers, Steve..

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