Kol HaTor

Kol HaTor (Hebrew: קול התור, "The Voice of the Turtledove", from Song of Songs 2:12) is a book of Jewish thought attributed to Rabbi Hillel Rivlin of Shklov, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Many historians^[who?] suggest that it was in fact written by Moshe Zalman Rivlin in the middle of the 20th century.^[1] The text deals with the Geulah (Era of eschatology and salvation) and describes its signs vis-a-vis an evaluation of a proposed 999 footsteps of the Moshiach's arrival. The Vilna Gaon believed the number 999 to be intrinsically connected to the idea of Moshiach ben Yosef, he also felt that this number is alluded to in the gematria of his own name.^[2]

^ Etkes, Immanuel (2024). The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-3453-4.
^ Kol HaTor; Notes on Chapter 3 Archived 2013-02-10 at archive.today Holy Hints on the Beginning of the Redemption

[1] Etkes, Immanuel (2024). The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-3453-4.

[2] Kol HaTor; Notes on Chapter 3 Archived 2013-02-10 at archive.today Holy Hints on the Beginning of the Redemption

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