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This is a continuation of the post "Yovel Count of Rebbi Yehudah."
As the Steps of Moshiach advance, they become louder, to the point that they are apparent to all.
Yovel Year 46 - 5678
- Dated November 2, 1917 (17th Marcheshvan 5678), the Balfour Declaration is one of the biggest steps towards gaining international recognition for the Return to Eretz Yisrael.
Yovel Year 47 - 5727
- In Iyar 5727 (June of 1967), Yerushalayim, Yehudah, Shomron, the Golan, and Gaza came under Jewish control for the first time in centuries, and the move back to these areas began.
May Yovel Year 48 bring Am Yisrael even closer to Eretz Yisrael.
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I think this means that from the side of Chesed we reach שיתין ושית in 5776.
ReplyDeleteWould it not still be the year that the Sanhedrin starts acting, 5777? Otherwise does this not change the year of the extra half?
ReplyDeleteAnd are you saying eliminate the other Yovel or add this one?
ReplyDeleteI had the Yovel at years 49*n +1. Your convincing svara has it seven years earlier. It would mean we reach שיתין ושית a year before 5777, when it will already be 67.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, what you bring in "The Threefold System" regarding מועד מועדים וחצי made me realize that 5769 (an instance of וחצי) could be considered reaching 66 at קו האמצע. So perhaps we will merit to a level of כי בא מועד. May it be so.
So 5727 is a year of double?
ReplyDeletePlease elaborate on פלג עידן
This brings earlier opportunities for Teshuvah as well. Did you see that? This seems to be a better situation. Three extra years.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Din rules less over Chesed, much better. A double pekida in 5727, I am sure what to say, but I am quite bewildered how this seems to work out. I would not know a better year of Chesed.
ReplyDeleteThis leaves a question as to what the פקידה of the Zohar there is. The war made sense.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the final end will also be a double pekidah, since that is in our control.
The פלגא mentioned, and the year implied up to now, we have other shitot that point to that. You think it is sooner now?
Yes, the Yom Kippur war fits well with Yovelim at 49*n + 1, also because Yovel is conceptually associated to Yom Kippur.
ReplyDeleteBut we have to investigate your shita. And it makes a lot of sense. Regarding the half Idan, it is six years, sure, an instance of "vav". There are three such half Idan's. One at 60, one at 66, one at 72. So with Yovelim at
49*n - 6 this could come out to be 5729-5735, containing the war. The second is 5776-5782. The gilui would be shifted by a year, though the war would not.
The war, though, was contained completely in the beginning of 5734. The Zohar there says that it is 60 + 6 and a half, not 60 and a half + 6. Would not the Pekidah be then by 5729?
ReplyDeletewhen you write 5729-5735, do you mean the period of those years? or 5729 + 6 = 5735?
ReplyDeleteIt is all about the Vav, 6. Three times the Zohar mentions the half (here), and there are three pekidot/zechirot, at 60, at 66, and at 72. Six apart, and at each of them, there is a period/process of half an Idan, six years. The first largely hidden, the second more revealed, the third completely revealed. So when I write 5729-5735, I mean the period, yes, shifted from 5734-5740.
ReplyDelete5776-5782 seems to exclude, then, the war, by a year, no? Meaning 5783
ReplyDeleteTrue, but it only ends in 5783.
ReplyDeleteSo we need to look in to the meaning of the words Pekidah and Zechirah. Are they singular events or periods of time? Maamar HaGeulah indicates that they are periods of time. So is the Zohar referring to the period in which the starting point falls? If so, we have quite an אי דיוק on our hands.
ReplyDeleteI would say it is a question of scale. Six years is only a tenth of a percent of history, and yslrd less than one percent of period of the chesed count (which will reach 100 at the end of the sixth millenium - assuming Sanhedrin will establish three Yovelim after Beit HaMikdash will be restored, in the years 5801 + n*50, n=1,2,3).
ReplyDeleteChesed reaching 100. Is that a tikkun for not being able to have the original count reach its conclusion that same year?
ReplyDeleteThese are steps of Moshiach. Moshiach is k'Neged Adam HaRishon. At 70 the Cheth is fixed, at 72 the connection between Heaven and Earth restored, but to grow towards Heaven there are steps until 100, upwards. Every step is one Amah. Adam HaRishon was 100 Amot, and he reached from Earth to Heaven.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful drash. Is there any relation to the superhuman heights of other people in the midrashim?
ReplyDeleteI think so. At 60, Moshiach starts to appear, small and unrecognized. At 70, 10 steps further, he is Melech at the height of 10 Amot, the level of Moshe. (This refers to more than one individual.)
ReplyDeleteI see that I misread your remark regarding Pekidah and Zechira. My position is quite immutable. The Pekidah is at the count of 60, and in our current approach that would be in 5729. Think of the landing on the Moon, or Woodstock (I know people laugh, but I am serious). Both events were not related to Israel, but I feel that would add to the covert and hidden Nature of the Pekida. They were two huge universal events. By definition, the Pekidah is the start of a process, that includes hardship and Ye'ush, but slimmers on until the Zechira. Again a significant event that leads to an overt process leading to Israel's redemption.
ReplyDeleteIt fits our current approach that towards the end of the half Idan starting at 60, after the Yom Kippur war, the Western world quite abruptly turned against Israel. The poor displaced Arabs were discovered. And the climax of that will start at the end of the half Idan starting at 66.
There is no doubt that the Six Day War was the high point in Israel's history. The question is when did things start going down hill? There seems to be a period from 5729 to 5730 where Achishenah was available by this method. Was it when this gate closed?
ReplyDeleteThe nature of the Pekida at 60 is that it is temporary. It faded after six years, after the Yom Kippur war, around the time of the Munich massacre.
ReplyDelete"The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by Black September, a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization."
ReplyDeleteWikipedia.
I assume you mean something else when you refer to after the war.
I was just writing too fast. Just wanted to say some sad things happened, and then the light slowly disappeared and the atmosphere changed.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, a light that fades away, then 5729 would seem more in line than 5734, for 5734 was more akin to a quick fade. Perhaps this light that came was the chance to do Teshuvah which closed a year later.
ReplyDeleteThat could be. If only we had interpreted the miracles the right way.
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