The Baal Haturim says at the end of Chaya Sara that Yishmoel has to fall before Meshiach can come otherwise the Ramban says that the affliction of Hagar by Sarah was an error and therefore we will fall in Yishmoel’s hand if we don’t behave properly. The Sefer Amudeho Shiva said on the year 5760 (2000) that it was a time for Meshiach as a mikva is 40 sah and a soh is 144 eggs making it 5760 eggs. He said that the world will be meetuhar then. The Ramban in Breishis says that every day of creation is for a thousand years and Meshiach should have come when Adam Harishon was created. The Chasam Sofer says that it was suitable to come but we must be worthy.
They bring a mashel about the counting of days towards Meshiach which the gemora is against. A man took along a friend and his son to travel to the Leiptzig the great market. As they got into the wagon and started to travel, the son asked how much more time will it take? The father got angry and said, why are you asking me that when we just got into the wagon? After traveling an hour or two the friend asked also how much more? He told him another hour. The son got angry for screaming at him. He told his son when you asked it was not appropriate to ask as we just started to travel but my friend asked after we traveled more than half the distance. Currently we are close to the coming of Meshiach and therefore we are able to ask.
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