It is a startling coincidence that "Moshi'a" means "Savior" and "Maschiach" means "Messiah" or "Anointed One". The Hebrew Root words are NOT the same, yet their pronunciations make this a VERY interesting play on words. The Scriptures are full of these intriguing little things like this. That's why I enjoy these Word Studies SO MUCH! Here you go then, because just these past couple of days I have been studying a word/spelling play on just that, Mashiach verses masiyah, another root.
It has to do with the concept of 8 transcending 7. 8 goes beyond the physical world of 7, but that's because it's really a restart. It can move forward while at the same transcend the past, like it never even happened. Simple example: the days of the week are 7, but the next day is the first day all over again, even though it is the 8th day.
Thus the 8th day is also the 1st day. The 1st isn't necessarily the 8th though, because it hasn't gotten there yet. But once another Sunday rolls around, *that* 1st day [of the week] is also the 8th day of the previous week. But a week is only 7, so... well, you get the idea. It's tangible but not tangible, because 8 floats outside of the system of 7.
Same with the 50th year being also year 1 [of the next 7 x 7 years]. A restart of restarts.
Octaves on the piano keys. C is C again, one octave up. But it is still "C".
The retelling of the creation account (Genesis 2) is framed as if it were occurring on the 8th day:
1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them:
2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made:
3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made:
4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens:
The whole concept of the Messiah is to rectify the mess man made of himself and the world. A rectification so perfect and complete such that '"it" never even happened'. Like new, fresh out of the box [again]. Idyllic. Paradise. Eden. This involves the revelation of all knowledge: everyone will know and understand the why of everything. It will all make perfect sense...
The Mashiach and the transcendent quality of 8 and how they interlink is the subject of much commentary. The letter chet (8), the 8th month (Marcheshvan)... so many Messianic parallels.
That brings me back to the point of my word study, because the word Mashiach ends on the letter chet (8). The "letter" of the Mashiach.
As I described above, though... 8 operates beyond a system of 7 (the physical world); 8 is really ONE.
In terms of Hebrew letters, it would be the same as saying that a chet is an alef. Thus the saying, "The Torah of the Mashiach begins with an alef", is the verb ahav, love:
His Ways are not Our Ways, but every once in a while, something happens that illustrates that "Greater love hath No Man Than This: That He Gives His Life For a Friend".
But an alef (like a first day of a week) is also a transcendent "8" of the Mashiach. In the system, but not of the system. The word Mashiach ends on the 8, the letter chet:
משיח
Which is to say, an alef:
משיא
The word siya (שיא): record, pinnacle, summit, highest point, apex: nothing that is higher, greater, longer, wider, faster...
A "world record" is a siya olam (שיא עולם). The pinnacle of achievement. That wiki page even uses a bridge [in the land of the rising sun] as the photo example.
"M'siya" is therefore what/whom is from, or what/whom comes out of the highest point, the apex of achievement, and so forth. And people don't give a second thought to man's first words from the moon, except to argue over an indefinite article. :)
Out of the pinnacle of achievement: Messiah <---> masiya. It's the simple meaning.
Back to the first man to step foot on the earth, Adam in Eden, Gen 2:
23. And Adam (ha-adam) said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman [isha], because she was taken out of Man [ish]:
This is the first place man (ish) appears. Prior to this point, the man is adam, ha-adam (the man). The preposition (the letter mem) means out of, but also from. Yet this "ish" fellow didn't even exist until this very place, where the adam lost a part of himself in God's creation of isha.
she shall be called Woman [isha], because she was taken away from Man [ish]:
It was the spitting of the adam into ish and isha.
24. Therefore shall a man (ish) leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife (his isha); and they shall be one flesh:
Away from man (ish): m'ish:
מאיש
Same letters as masiyeh (משיא), which is to say, Mashiach (משיח). There's a whole lot in the rest of that narrative into the next chapter, where there is ish, and where there is adam, and the word naked (ערום) and the word subtle (ערום).
I have a suspicion that the entire failure of man is predicated on a 5778 year of a lack of attention to detail to a subtle but important distinction between man (adam) and man (ish). Whole worlds can be destroyed by the splitting of atoms if someone isn't paying attention or actually meant to do that.
It's like the Omega 13 in Galaxy Quest. 13 seconds to go back in time for a redo in order to save life by a great deliverance.
The Yechida (meaning unity, one) is the general, all-inclusive soul of the Machiach. Where (and in whom) Adam becomes one again, like the nation becoming one - one people, one heart - at Sinai. Makes sense that the letter trail of 8 (as a 1) goes right back to where isha was split away from her ish.
The letter hei at the end of isha is a directional preposition meaning toward. Esha, toward the esh, fire.
Fusion is what powers the sun. The sun makes life on earth possible.
The word brother is ach (אח), the letter alef together with the letter chet. 1 and 8, unified. David knew:
Psalm 133
1. A Song of Maalot (ascents) of David; Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity:
2. It is like the precious ointment (she-men, a play on 8) upon the head, that runs down upon the beard, Aaron's beard, that runs down to the hem of his garments:
3. Like the dew of Her-mon descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life for evermore:
In case any reader wandering though is wondering...
This study is not an intent to flick around letters and change meanings. The point is that *because* the Mashiach and the letter chet and the numeric value of 8 are already interconnected, and that the concept of 8 as 1 is already known and much dissected, I observed that in the context of the Mashiach, when the 8 is "reset" to 1 (chet into an alef), those same relationships and commentaries are shown to be wound together even tighter.
