However , the world was not yet ready for the coming of the messiah .
Isaac Luria ( 1534 -- 1572 ) Safed Kabbalists claimed that both Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital were reincarnations of Messiah ben Joseph .
The world was not yet ready for the coming of the messiah .
Isaac Luria ( 1534 -- 1572 ) Safed Kabbalists claimed that both Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital were reincarnations of Messiah ben Joseph .