Rabbi Meϊr Löb
ben Jehiel Michael, "the Malbim" (1809 —
1879)
picture source: The Jewish
Encyclopedia, Vol.8, 1904, p.276.
The Ukrainian born rabbi known today as
"the Malbim", probably shared the Nazis'
dislike of rich German Jews. As rich
German Jews who favoured Moses
Mendelssohn's Reform Judaism, persecuted
"the Malbim" for much of his life. They
contrived to have him imprisoned in
Bucharest, and only released following
pleas from British Jewish mega-banker
Sir Moses Montefiore (whose wife was the
sister of Mrs. Nathan Mayer Rothschild),
on condition that "the Malbim" leave not
just Bucharest, but Romania altogether.
They later had him thrown out of Mogilev
(now Belarus) for being a political
criminal, and they also harassed him
into leaving Königsberg (Prussia).
"The Malbim" was clearly a devoted believer in old time Judaism, and wrote of what the goyyim can expect in the Messianic era:
"The Malbim" was clearly a devoted believer in old time Judaism, and wrote of what the goyyim can expect in the Messianic era:
"At the beginning [of the Messianic era] they [the Jews] will receive converts who will be converted before the final tranquility, but afterwards the idolatrous nations will take be taken and brought to their places and no more converts will be accepted. Rather, Israel shall inherit them (after they will already be "on the soil of God") as male and female slaves."
— Malbim on Isaiah 14:2 (Mikraot Gedolot haKeter).
