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Six Thousand Years and a Deadline That Keeps Moving
The Talmud says the world exists for six thousand years. Maimonides made belief in the Messiah a mandatory principle of faith — and then cursed anyone who tried to calculate when he'd arrive. This episode works through the actual tension in Jewish sources: the rationalists versus the apocalyptics, the Ramban dismissing the six-thousand-year clock at the Barcelona disputation, and Maimonides deflating the drama by insisting the natural order won't change. Then it turns to the Talmud's own arguments in Sanhedrin 97–98, where the majority view is that things get so bad God has to intervene — and…
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