Moshe a pre-type of Yeshua

Excerpt from "Tormented Master, The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav" 

By Arthur Green 

pp. 118- 119

 "The Kabbalistic authors, building upon these rabbinic speculations, went much further in elaborating the figure of Moses as the prototypical unique leader of a generation. According to the rabbis, all souls ever to be born into the world were already present in the soul of Adam. This notion, shared by the Aggadic authors and the early church, became central to Christianity in connection with the idea of original sin. Although little emphasis was placed upon it in early Judaism, the idea was rediscovered by the Kabbalists, who gave it a place of preëminence. Particularly in the Lurianic system, where the myth of the Fall is so central, the rootedness of all souls in Adam is strongly emphasized.  But equally crucial to the Kabbalistic myth is the belief that all the souls of Israel were to be found in the soul of Moses. Just as Adam, through the Fall, wrought damage to all human souls, so Moses, the lawgiver, brought potential redemption to all the souls of Israel. Moses not only reveals the law: he in-fact embodies it. While the soul of each individual Jew is rooted in one of the six hundred thousand mystical letters of the Torah, the soul of Moses contains the entire Torah, the soul-root of the entire House of Israel. The Talmud had already seen the revelation at Sinai as the "antidote" to the poison of original sin; here however it is Moses, the bearer of that revelation, who is able to redeem all the souls by virtue of the fact that his soul contains them all. The revelation to Moses is here presented in terms that are so reminiscent of some incarnational formulae of Christianity that a purely structural distinction between the two faiths would here perhaps be put to its severest test.  No wonder that penitent Marranos, with their Catholic upbringing, were attracted to the Sabbatian version of Kabbalah, and no wonder that Christian occultists in the Renaissance, and later, found Kabbalistic symbols to be so attractive! The further step, claiming that Moses' soul was not only all-inclusive but in fact was different in origin from that of any other human, was also taken by some Kabbalists. According to the fourteenth-century author of Sefer-ha-Qaneh (often known for his strikingly radical formations), Moses at first refused to go into Egypt to redeem Israel because his soul was derived from the cosmic cycle of grace (shemitat ha-hesed), while Israel was already living under the cycle of harshness (shemitat ha-gevurah). It was even claimed that Moses' soul was uniquely pre-existent:  it was in fact the primordial light of which Scripture says:  'And God saw the light, and it was good' (Gen. 1:4). 

The soul of Moses, standing at the center of its generation, and indeed of the cosmos altogether, is associated both with the souls of later zaddiqim and with the soul of the Messiah." 

*Moses as a pre-type of Yeshua 

*Moses apart from the rest of humanity, even pre-existent, like Yeshua. 

*Upon seeing a crucifix as a child: " WHO IS THIS MAN AND WHY IS HIS SUFFERING DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER MAN'S?" (only by grace would a child wonder this) 

* As sin came into the world through Adam, so redemption came into the world through Yeshua (Moses in the Hasidic tradition). 

*Moses embodies the entire Torah just as Yeshua embodies the Law & the Prophets 

*Whereas for the Israelites, the antidote to sin was the Torah delivered by Moses, for followers of Yeshua,  redemption came in the divine person and ministry of Yeshua, the sacrificial Lamb. Sin was atoned for by the suffering & death of Yeshua on the Cross.