The person who is destined
to be the Moshiach [Hazrat Mahdi (as)]
will not realize beforehand that he is the Moshiach [Hazrat Mahdi (as)].
And then, on the day of the set
time... he will merit to be the redeemer... and then he will realize himself
that he is the Moshiach [Hazrat Mahdi (as)].
[Rabbi Chaim Vital, Arba Mei’os
Shekel Kessef, quoted in Otzros
Acharis HaYamim, vol. 2, ch. 6]
Moshe Rabbeniu also did not know he was destined to be
the first redeemer of the Jewish people.
Moshe replied to God, “Please, my
Master, I am not a man of words, not since yesterday nor since the day before
yesterday, nor since You first spoke to Your servant, for I am heavy of mouth
and heavy of speech. Then God said to him, “Who makes a mouth for man or
who makes one dumb or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, God? So now go! I
shall be your mouth and teach you what you should say.” He replied, “Please, my
Master, send whomever You will send.”
[Shemos, 4:10-13]
Regarding the coming of the [Moshiach (Hazrat Mahdi (as)), the]
descendant of David, I must present the following point. Moshe Rabbeniu, peace upon him, the first redeemer, lived for eighty
years with no knowledge or inkling that he would redeem Israel…
And just as Shaul received the spirit of rulership and ruach hakodesh only after he had been
anointed, while beforehand he did not recognize [his potential], the same was
true of the first redeemer, and the same
will be true of the last redeemer. That righteous person does not realize
himself…
[Chasam Sofer, Responsa, vol.
6, 98, s.v. “hareini nazir”]
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