Elijah Prepares the Way for Mashiach

 The Soon Coming of Moses and Elijah

A pale light spread its fingers across the horizon, casting shadows long and deep. The darkness was not yet defeated, but its reign was coming to an end. And in the interplay of light and shadow lay a story—ancient, intricate, and luminous. A story of brothers at war, of kingdoms rising and falling, of serpents and saviors, and of a radiance concealed since the dawn of time, waiting to be unveiled. It was the story of Moses and Elijah, of the Torah and the Zohar, of the written word and the hidden light, converging at last to herald the coming of Mashiach.

This was the story written in the scroll of Malachi, a prophecy sealed in twilight, to be unsealed at the dawn of redemption.

“And the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name.”
— Malachi 4:2

In the dim light of exile, the sun seemed distant and dim. For generations, Israel wandered beneath a veil of darkness, burdened by the klipot—the husks of impurity that obscured the divine light. But the prophets spoke of a time when the sun would rise again, its rays tearing through the clouds of deception, bringing warmth and clarity to the world.

This sun was no ordinary sun. The sages called it the Or HaGanuz—the hidden light, concealed at the dawn of creation for the righteous in the end of days. Its rays were the secrets of Kabbalah, the hidden Torah, the mysteries sealed within the scroll of the Zohar—radiance waiting to be revealed.

For centuries, the written Torah—Moses’ Torah—had been the body of Israel’s faith, its laws and precepts the bones and sinews of the covenant. But bones without the breath of life are a corpse, and a body without a soul is but clay. The soul of Torah was hidden, waiting for the time appointed, when the light of Kabbalah would burst forth to illuminate the commandments with their innermost essence.

Elijah, the prophet, was that light-bearer. He was the guardian of secrets, the one who would come to unlock the gates of understanding, to unseal the scroll of mysteries, preparing the world for the radiant dawn of Mashiach.

“Lo, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”
— Malachi 4:5

And yet, before Elijah, there was Moses—the servant of Hashem, the lawgiver who stood atop Sinai with the tablets of stone, his face radiant with the light of a covenant unfulfilled. Though he delivered the Torah, Moses never set foot in the Promised Land. His eyes beheld it from afar, but the gates were closed to him, and he was gathered to his fathers with a task left undone. The soul of Moses lingered, bound to the Torah but exiled from its promise.

The Kabbalists spoke in whispers of the Gilgul—the return of Moses’ soul, not in flesh, but in spirit, through the Sanhedrin of 70 elders. For had not Hashem said to Moses:

“I will take of the spirit that is upon you and will put it upon them.”
— Numbers 11:17

The Sanhedrin—seventy elders, each a spark of Moses’ soul—would return in the days of Mashiach to restore the Torah in fullness. And through them, Moses would at last cross the Jordan, entering the land with the light of the Torah, fulfilled and unveiled.

The sages taught that Moses and Shiloh shared the same gematria—345. One name, two missions: the lawgiver and the king, the Torah and its fulfillment. Shiloh, the one to whom it belongs, the one who would take up the scepter and the law, uniting priesthood and kingship in the light of Mashiach.

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes.”
— Genesis 49:10

The coming of Shiloh was the coming of Moses’ soul, not in stone tablets but in the living Torah—the light of Kabbalah that reveals the soul within the commandments. And who but Elijah could prepare the way for such a light, for had he not ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, his cloak left behind as a promise of return?

The Zohar, the Book of Radiance, was the light in the wings of the sun. Its teachings, concealed for centuries, were the rays that would burn away the serpent’s venom—the klipot that darkened the soul of Israel.

“And he shall sit refining and purifying silver.”
— Malachi 3:3

Elijah—the guardian of Kabbalah—would unlock these mysteries, teaching the hidden Torah that had the power to heal the wound inflicted by the serpent. The wings of the sun were the Sefirot of Netzach and Hod—the left and right wings of the divine chariot, through which the light of Kabbalah would flow into the world.

Moses gave the Torah.
Elijah would reveal its soul.
Mashiach would unite them.

“And saviors will ascend Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be Hashem’s.”
— Obadiah 1:21

The fire of Jacob and the flame of Joseph would consume the stubble of Esau—not merely in judgment but in transformation. For the Sanhedrin of 70, the embodiment of Moses’ soul, would judge the nations with the light of Torah, while the wisdom of Elijah would pierce the darkness with the secrets of Kabbalah.

The Sanhedrin’s fire was the fire of Torah law—burning away falsehood.
The Zohar’s radiance was the light of Kabbalah—dispelling darkness.
Together, they would prepare the world for the dawn.

And the sun rose higher. Its light poured through the veils of darkness, illuminating the way to Zion. In that dawn, the voices of Moses and Elijah would be one—the lawgiver and the prophet, the Torah and the Zohar, the external and the internal united.

Mashiach would come in that dawn, the seed of the woman who would crush the head of the serpent, ending the exile of the Shechinah and bringing the world to the knowledge of Hashem.

“And Hashem will be King over all the earth; on that day Hashem will be One and His Name One.”
— Zechariah 14:9

The dawn had come.
And the darkness could not overcome it.