them realize that God’s plan is to one day send the Messiah, even as he told the Besht that the time will come when “… the husks will perish, and that will be the time of grace and salvation.” The Enlightenment movement in the modern period did much to diminish or even dismiss the Messiah emphasis among modernized Jews. But where are we in today’s world? Most Jewish people still do not consider the Scriptures as authoritative, much less the traditions, and