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Assistant Editor

M

oses Al-Dar'i was convinced the coming
of the Messiah was only days away.
A scholar whose admirers included
Maimonides, Al-Dar'i made his prediction in
Fez, Morocco, in 1127.
He told Jews Mashiach would appear
the first night of Passover. To prepare for the
Messiah's coming, they should rid themselves
of all their wordly goods so they could leave
Morocco as the Jews left Egypt — laden with
riches heaped on them by gentiles. Those who
followed his advice were ruined.
Al-Dar'i's prophecy was one of hundreds
of its kind in Jewish history.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1992