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Rashi on Daniel 7:25: Moshiach in 2011?!
muman613:
I find that post extremely difficult to read... Im sorry...
I am beginning to suspect that you are Rabbi Katz... Are you?
muman613:
Here is a basic discussion of where we get the idea of a 6000 year timeline...
http://www.jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-category/the-basics-of-judaism/the-messiah/?p=998
Basics of Judaism
The Messiah
The Messiah and 6000 years
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How do we know that the world will end in the year 6,000? There are many differing contexts of the coming of the Messiah has anyone sorted out the contexts so that we can gauge a clear view?
Here are some sources for the world lasting six thousand years:
Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin [97a]: “Rav Kattina said: ‘The world will exist for 6000 years and one (thousand) of destruction’ ... We have a teaching which is in agreement with Rav Kattina, as the seventh is the sabbatical year – one in seven years. Likewise the world will rest 1,000 in 7000 … ‘a thousand years in Your eyes are like yesterday which has passed …’ [Psalms 90:4].”
Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah [9a]: “The world will exist for six thousand years: two millennia of void (‘tohu’); Two millennia of Torah; and then two millennia of the age of Moshiach.”
Nachmanides, Commentary on the Torah (Genesis 2:3), quoting Kabbalistic sources: “Each of the Six Days of Creation corresponds to a 1,000 year period of future history.”
As for a clearer view of what it will be like when Moshiach comes, the basic answer is: a lot better than this.
From the Prophets, Talmud and Midrashim, we know what universal changes Moshiach will bring about. Among them: the whole world will return to G-d and His teachings; the entire Jewish People will be gathered back to the Land of Israel; the royal dynasty of King David will be restored; Jerusalem and the Third Temple will be rebuilt; the Temple service will be restored, along with the keeping of the Sabbatical Year (Shmitah) and the Jubilee Year (Yovel); the Sanhedrin, the religious supreme court of the Jewish people, will be reestablished.
No big deal, right?
In what order and in exactly what manner these events will occur, we do not know. G-d did not reveal the future that clearly to us. We do know certain ways that it cannot happen in any way which contradicts the Torah.
There are sources that do an excellent job of laying out clearly everything we do know about Moshiach. In English, the two best sources are The Handbook of Jewish Thought, Volume II, by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan and The Way of G-d (Derech Hashem) by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto.
british bulldog:
i am rabbi katz
muman613:
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Shalom Rabbi,
I hope that we will learn something from you. I have listened to some of your shuirs. I hope that you find JTF a good place to discuss these topics. Although we do not really spend a great deal of time concerned with these kinds of calculcation it is always very interesting to ponder when geula will come. Whether these calculations do actually increase our emmunah is debatable.
If such thoughts actually do cause some of our brothers and sisters to pick up and return to Eretz Yisroel it will be a blessing for you. The more righteous souls which make aliyah the better. I do not want to lengthen the exile, as I said I wish to hasten it. But I am still cautious about placing trust in calculations.
It is excellent to make your acquaintance. Baruch Hashem...
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: british bulldog on December 14, 2010, 03:32:16 PM ---i am rabbi katz
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;D
I always liked the British Bulldog. Good name choice.
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