Eschatology

====Kabbalah====

In [[Kabbalah]], the [[Zohar]]<ref>Zohar, Vayera 119a</ref> maintains that the seven days of the week, based on the seven days of creation, correspond to the seven millennia of creation. The seventh day of the week, the [[Shabbat]] day of rest, corresponds to the seventh millennium, the age of universal rest, or the Messianic Era. The seventh millennium begins with the [[Year 6000|year 6000]] [[Anno Mundi|AM]], and is the latest time the Messiah can come. A number of early and late Jewish scholars have written in support of this, including the [[Nahmanides|Ramban]],<ref>Ramban on Genesis (2:3)</ref> [[Isaac Abarbanel]],<ref>Abarbanel on Genesis 2</ref> [[Abraham Ibn Ezra]],<ref>Ramban quoting Ibn Ezra at Leviticus (25:2)</ref> Rabbeinu [[Bachya]],<ref>Bachya on Genesis 2:3</ref> the [[Vilna Gaon]],<ref>Safra D'Tzniusa, Ch. 5</ref> the [[Lubavitcher Rebbe]],<ref>Sefer HaSichos 5750:254</ref> the [[Ramchal]],<ref>Derech Hashem 4:7:2</ref> [[Aryeh Kaplan]]<ref>Page 318, The Real Messiah {{cite book|first1=Aryeh|last1=Kaplan|title= The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology: Illuminating Expositions on Jewish Thought and Practice by a Revered Teacher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vxjgVY33LkC&q=aryeh+kaplan+1840&pg=PA318|publisher=Mesorah Publications|date=1 August 1991|isbn=9780899068664|access-date=2 September 2015}}</ref> and Rebbetzin [[Esther Jungreis]].<ref>
{{cite web |last = Fleisher |first = Malkah
|url = http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128104
|title = 'It's Erev Shabbos of the World' – Jewish World – News
|publisher = Israel National News
|date = 27 October 2008
}}
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