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daf bit: Sanhedrin 97
The g'mara on today's daf is discussing the timing of the coming of the
moshiach. R. Kattina said the world would exist for 6000 years and
then be desolate for another thousand -- just as in the seventh year
we are commanded to let our fields lie fallow, so too with the seventh
millennium for the world. The tanna Eliyahu also said the world would
exist for 6000 years, but that is: 2000 of desolation, 2000 in which
the torah flourished, and the next 2000 is the messianic era -- that
was the design, but through our iniquities it has been lost. (A different)
Eliyahu said to R. Yehudah: the world shall exist not fewer than 85 jubilees
(which occur every 50 years). And R. Chanan b. Tahlifa once met a
man in possession of a scroll written in Assyrian characters that said
the world would be orphaned 4231 years after creation. After that
come the war of the great sea monsters and the war of Gog and Magog
and only then the messianic era. Opinions differ on how long that
takes, either 7000 years (total) or 5000. (97a-b)
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Gojira! Finally, a better explanation for kaiju than radioactivity.
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I had heard that eventually we're supposed to feast on leviathan (that's a singular creature, not a class), but I didn't know there was a whole war. I also don't know if leviathan is kosher now or if the rules will change.
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