Q&A: Redemption
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Redemption
Question
Does the Rabbi really think redemption will come? Doesn’t it sound a bit strange that in the year 6000 the world will be destroyed?
Answer
Why are you linking redemption to the date of 6000 years and to the destruction of the world? Is that invention what defines redemption for you?
Discussion on Answer
There’s nothing like that in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). There’s only what you interpret into it. It’s a myth based on an aggadic teaching of the Sages that people took far too literally. As far as I understand, it has no basis at all.
And do you really believe the Messiah will come?
I don’t know. I hope so.
That’s how I was educated. Isn’t there in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) a Day of Judgment when the world is destroyed, and that’s in the year 6000?