Exciting Discoveries about Geula and Moshiach

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I have been formulating information to let us know when Moshiach and the worldwide redemption are likely to occur. This past Shabbos, Parshas Noach, was a real eye-opener.

For decades I have been doing what is called Daf Yomi, which is a system being done worldwide of studying the Babylonian Talmud. It consists of a 7½ year cycle that covers 2711 pages of the Talmud. Since everyone is doing the same page throughout the world, it is very interesting to find that the subjects covered on any particular day may have some relevance to the world situation. It is another way that Hashem is sending us messages about what is happening and what is coming up.

On this past Shabbos we studied Sanhedrin 97, which is the most reveling page in the Talmud about the coming of Moshiach. It tells us when he will be introduced to the world. The problem is the information has always been with a mistake that I would like to clear up.

We are told that the seven years before Moshiach is introduced will be with very definite events. It is worded as: in the first year…, in the second year…, etc. Then it says that in the eighth year, the year following this seven year period, the Moshiach will be introduced. All modern Rabbis talk of this revealing page of the Talmud as the 7 year Shemitah cycle that we observe. It is the most defined information which has been watched for decades. It also was the biggest reason that the end of the last Shemitah cycle in 5775 appeared to be the cycle and the year 5776 would definitely be the year Moshiach would be introduced. There were Rabbis during World War 2 who said that after 10 Shemitah cycles Moshiach would come. With the war ending in 5705, 1945, the 10 cycles or 70 years brought us to 5775, which was totally consistent with Moshiach being introduced in 5776 after the last Shemitah cycle.

When it didn’t happen, many Torah scholars were scratching their heads asking what went wrong. I was so sure that it would happen that I wrote blog posts with such assurances that we were there in 5776.

I learned on Shabbos what went wrong. In reviewing the page 97 in Sanhedrin, I noticed that there was not one mention of Shemitah. Even in the commentary by the great sages there was talk of the 7 year cycle, but no mention of it being in conjunction with the 7 year Shemitah cycle. It was only commentary from modern Rabbis that insisted that the 7 year cycles were congruent.

The actual wording in the Talmud is: "In the seven year cycle when the son of David will come: In the first year…, in the second year…, etc. In the aftermath of the seventh year (the eighth year), the son of David will come." Not only is there no reference to the Shemitah, but alluding to the eighth year means “the next year after the 7 year period.” Otherwise it should say in the first year of the next Shemitah cycle, since the eighth year of a Shemitah cycle is meaningless.

It even makes more sense to talk about ten 7 year cycles or 70 years, not after WW2 but the establishment of the State of Israel. 5708 to 5778 is much more believable.

So to what does the Talmud refer? If it is talking the years 5771 to 5777 as the seven year period (referring to our actual calendar rather than a Shemitah cycle), the statement “in the eighth year” is much more correct, the eighth year of the decade.

I got very excited about this since we are getting so many messages from Ben Golden, Meir, Rav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita, Rav Glazerson, other Rabbis and Mekubalim and even from scriptures that “this is the year.”

Tomorrow, I hope to share with you some of the dot-connecting I have experienced about the possible time within this year that we might expect the big day.

Note: If anyone can show me a definite reference to the seven year period being the Shemitah cycle, I would like to see it. Just make sure it is not from a source from modern times.