I will await him

"Every observant Jew believes in the coming of moshiach and awaits him every day. Yet not everyone has given thought to what that waiting means. To wait is to refrain from doing something until a given time; what exactly are we to refrain from doing before moshiach comes? The Talmudic passage of the Three Oaths provides the answer, and this book explores how the passage has been understood by Rishonim, Acharonim and Poskim in all generations, down to the present day"--Back cover.