Had a minute- Arso:
In one of the prophecies of Bilaam it is written,6 דרך כוכב מיעקב — “A star shall go forth from Jacob.” In one of its tractates, the Talmud Yerushalmi7 explains that this phrase is an allusion to the King Mashiach. Elsewhere,8 the Talmud Yerushalmi explains it as an allusion to every individual Jew. (The Talmud there relates that a certain gentile once dreamed that he had swallowed a star; it transpired that he had killed a Jew, for the Jews are likened to stars.)
These two interpretations are related, for within every single Jew there is a spark of Mashiach.
Footnote 8: Maaser sheni 4:6 (in Talmud bavli)