second coming, new testament, & פרשת החדש

 

Parshas Hachodesh In the סילוק לפ' החדש The קליר  refers to  Moshiach's arrival “ויתכסה מהם שבעים שבעה ( *ששה)”  A period of seven times a seven-year cycle משיח will be covered. Rashi in (12-דניאל (12  explains that  after מלך המשיח will reveal himself,   he will go back into hiding for forty-five years and then reveal himself again for a second time. (second coming) The פיוט continues and enumerates all the new occurrences that will happen after Moshiach’s arrival. One of them will be  “לכרות ברית חדשה”. Hashem will make a new bond (testament) with כלל ישראל. *Rashi has the גירסא- ששה (6)