QUESTION:
Will Mashiach be married or single? We know that our first Mashiach, Moshe Rabbeinu, separated from his wife after the Torah was given, because he had to always be prepared for prophecy to speak with Hashem. Since Mashiach will be a on higher level than Moshe (Midrash Tanchuma, Toldos 14:1), it would seem that he also won’t have a wife. Also, Hashem wanted to make Chizkiyahu into Mashiach, and Chizkiyahu at first didn’t have a wife and still he was eligible to be Mashiach. Also, the Rav said that the prophet Daniel didn’t marry and didn’t have children, and the Gemara says that Daniel could have been Mashiach, even though he was single. It seems that Mashiach doesn’t have to be married. Is that true?
ANSWER:
As of now I don’t know of a source that discusses anything about the wife of Mashiach. The proofs you brought are not concrete. Even though Chizkiyahu wasn’t married when he was worthy of being Mashiach, later he did get married. And had Daniel become Mashiach, it’s very possible that he would have married.
But the deeper way of looking at this is that the illumination of Mashiach is the secret of the Yechidah, the secret of Atik, where there is no independent level of Nukva (feminine) in it but attached with it back-to-back, where the masculine and feminine are intertwined and it is entirely pnim (the “inside” level) with no back (achor) to it. Therefore, it stands to reason that in the active sense, Mashiach will not have a wife [because instead of having a wife who is independent from his being, the feminine part of his soul will be intertwined with his masculine soul] and he will be like Moshe.
But the deeper way of looking at this is that the illumination of Mashiach is the secret of the Yechidah, the secret of Atik, where there is no independent level of Nukva (feminine) in it but attached with it back-to-back, where the masculine and feminine are intertwined and it is entirely pnim (the “inside” level) with no back (achor) to it. Therefore, it stands to reason that in the active sense, Mashiach will not have a wife [because instead of having a wife who is independent from his being, the feminine part of his soul will be intertwined with his masculine soul] and he will be like Moshe.
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