db 153 we saw here both the vicarious suffering


OF
THE MESSIAH
AND THE USE
OF ISAIAH 53 TO
ANCHOR THE IDEA: THIS MIDRASH
(OR ONE VERY LIKE IT) IS WHAT LIES BEHIND
THE HEARTRENDING IMAGE THAT APPEARS ONLY ONE PAGE EARLIER IN THE TALMUD
OF THE MESSIAH SITTING AT THE GATES OF ROME AMONG THE POOR AND THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM PAINFUL DISEASE.
They all loosen and bind their bandages at one time, and he loosens and binds them one at a time, saying: "Perhaps I will be needed & I don't want to delay." Thus the Messiah too, ever mindful of his soteriological mission, suffers from the same disease and painful tor-tures of the indigent and sick of Rome. Another classical rabbinic passage might perhaps be the earliest attestation from the tradition?
Since it is only known from a volume of polemic Testimonia (of a 13th-century Dominican friar), it might be considered suspect! Martini Raymondo cites this text as from the fourth-century Midrash Siphre: I (db) don't know if this citation is accurate, & one must question whether this is a real rabbinic text? On the other hand, although RM was a polemicist, even his considerable powers as a Hebraist would not seem to have permitted him to forge a text in such fine midrashic style. Modern Jewish scholars from Zunz to Lieberman have ac-feted RM's testimoniae as authentic texts.

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