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Eimosai Ko'osi Mar

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Transliteration:

Eimosai ko-osi mar l'ch'sheyofutzu mayonoshecho chutzo

Translation:

"When will the Messiah come?" [The Messiah responded:] "When your wells of Torah will overflow to the outside."

Adapted from the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 98a

In one of his epistles the Baal Shem Tov writes that when his soul ascended to heaven in the year 5507, he approached the palace of Messiah and inquired of him, Eimosai Ko'ose Mar, "When will the Messiah come?" The answer of the Messiah was: "I will come only when your (The Baal Shem Tov's) wells of Torah will overflow to the outside." Thus we are taught that the propagation of the Chassidic teachings and customs is a prerequisite and necessary prelude to the coming of the Messiah. The Lubavitcher Chassidim have adapted a well-known melody to perpetuate the inquiry of the Baal Shem Tov and the reply of the Messiah. This melody is sung frequently in great ecstasy at Chassidic gatherings.

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Music notes courtesy of Kehot Publication Society and Chabad Melodies by Eli Lipsker and Velvel Pasternak.

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Posted: May 4, 2008

Re: Eimosai

Actually, the expression "your wellsprings will spread forth" is a verse in Mishlei-Proverbs (5:16), and is a blessing (not an instruction related to the coming of Moshiach) to anyone who studies the Torah properly.

However, when Moshiach responded to the Baal Shem Tov's question "When will the master come?", "when YOUR wellpsprings will spread out", it was a response directed at the Baal Shem Tov, meaning that when "YOUR" wellsprings spread out, the Moshiach will come.

Posted By Baruch S. Davidson, Chabad.org

Posted: May 3, 2008

Eimosai

It says in the Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin when 'your wellsprings spread forth.."
The Talmud Sanhedrin was written long before the Baal Shem Tov.
The fact that the Baal Shem Tov went into that palace of Moshiach I'm not going to disagree on. But where I will disagree is that the well springs are not referring to the Baal Shem Tov if this is mentioned in Sanhedrin and Sanhedrin came long before the Baal Shem Tov. So in my opinion, the spreading forth of the wellsprings is not a prerequisite for Mashiach to come.

Posted By Akiva Brett, Johannesburg, South Africa

Posted: Oct 16, 2006

Eimatai Ko'osi Mar

Amazing niggun. When we sing that melodie, we experience the geula!

Posted By Efraim, Mitzpe Netofa, Eretz Israel

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	Eimosai Ko'osi Mar
This melody is sung frequently in great ecstasy at Chassidic gatherings
Topics: Music; Song (58), Nigun (167)