– Q. Why are there two Meshichim in Yiddishkeit, Moshiach ben Yosef and Moshiach ben Dovid? Couldn’t the abilities of both be invested in one person?

A. Our Sages teach us that the Universal Creation of the world involves usually two or more forces that are contradictory or oppose each other.

Common examples are day and night, positive and negative charges, centrifugal and centripetal forces etc. The only true single force in our universe is Hashem himself, as we constantly declare in Shema.

The same must also apply to the process of our Geula and the anointed ones that represent it.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.