Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah
Elhanan Wasserman
1938
Deeds of the Fathers
4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his exile, it says: “And he put the handmaids and their children foremost” [Genesis 33:2]. The Gaon says: This shows that in the [era of the] “footsteps of…
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