Ketz HaYamin (The Appointed End / Calculating the End)
The 'appointed end' of redemption and the fraught enterprise of calculating it (against which the Sages warned) — a major eschatological theme.
"Ketz HaYamin" is the "appointed end" — the destined time of final redemption — and, with it, the age-old temptation to calculate exactly when it will come. The Sages sharply warned against such date-setting ("may those who calculate the end be cursed"), urging trust and readiness instead. The tension between longing to know and being told to wait runs through Jewish messianic hope.
How it traveled
- DanielEretz Yisrael (travels) · c. 164 BCEdefines
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וְאַתָּ֖ה לֵ֣ךְ לַקֵּ֑ץ וְתָנ֛וּחַ וְתַעֲמֹ֥ד לְגֹרָלְךָ֖ לְקֵ֥ץ הַיָּמִֽין׃
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