Papal Visit Purim Millennium Snow in Jer. However, two very different portraits of Elijah are found within our tradition. Yet this image as a radical zealot is tempered in the Oral Torah.
Violence is replaced with vision, passion gives way to patience.
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. If we turn to talmudic texts we discover the extent of Elijah's metamorphosis. In each of the following accounts a significant moral lesson is taught, and the figure responsible is Elijah, who is portrayed as a person who never died. First we have the story of a great sage totally enamored of his own achievements. Our second story concerns an encounter between R. Broka and Elijah in a marketplace.