The Jerusalem Talmud: the Torah 'was written with letters of black fire upon a background of white fire'. According to Rabbi Isaac the Blind, father of Kabbalah, two Torahs, it is in the white fire one finds the written Torah; the black fire is the oral Torah. Perhaps Moses could read the white fire; the prophets, too, were able to glimpse a little of the white flame, but only when the Messiah comes will it be legible for all.
The testamentary book that the Jews call the Tanakh is unread and unreadable, except by a few. But what of those theologians who argue the Messiah has come, that he is there among the lepers and the beggars at the gates of Rome. Strange thought: he is recognized; someone asks him: ‘When will you come?’ Strange question, for this is already to know he has come; that he is there by the gates.
He is here – but is he here? What if he replies to the question: ‘Today’? 'When will you come?' - 'Today'. There he is - but there, too, he is not. But he adds: ‘Now, if only you heed me, or if you are willing to listen to my voice’. Now? But perhaps it takes a kind of prophet to listen to the one who is the tomorrow-in-today.