Shukr Kuhayl I

Shukr ben Salim Kuhayl I ( * 1821, † 1865), also known as Mari ( = Master ), Shukr Kuhayl I ( Aramaic: מרי שכר כחיל ), was a Yemeni, Jewish pseudo -messiah of the 19th century.

Shukr Kuhayl I claimed for himself to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah and anointed priest king. When he revealed himself in 1861 in Sanaa, the agreement was still there, that he was the ambassador of the Messiah. In the course of his performances, he corrected himself as meaning that he was the Messiah himself. Isaiah 45.1 he laid out so that he saw directed instead ( Cyrus ) as God's message to him ( Shukr ). Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus His anointed, whom he has taken on his right hand, to subdue him, the people, to disarm the kings, to open doors to him and to keep sealed a goal: .... From כה אמר ה ' למשיחו לכורש was thus: כה אמר ה ' למשיחו לשוכר.

Shukr Kuhayl I stepped in Sanaa at a time in appearance, produced as political turmoil increasingly messianic hope attitudes in the Jewish population. Shukr Kuhayl I divorced his wife and moved to shreds dressed as an itinerant preacher around. He taught frugality and poverty and exhorted to repentance and remorse. His self is perceived as poor and pious ascetic loner.

The people believed in him until he was killed in 1865 by local Arabs, because they saw a threat in it. The death Shukr Kuhayl I's was not accepted by his followers as death, but expected all his immediate return confinement, which seemed confirmed in 1868 by the appearance of Shukr Kuhayl II ( Judah ben Shalom ).