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Following this cheshbon 5772 is mincha gedola. v’haya l’es erev yihye ohr(zecharya 14). Erev is gematria 272 and exactly 272 years after the morning(5500) will be erev. So get ready for something big in the near future. The gra speaks about this in tikkunei zohar and safra d’tzniusa. I hope to post sources soon. mashiach ben yosef may be a movement not a person. Possibly this is why the Rambam makes no mention of him although the Gemara in succah 52 clearly does, since it is an aggada not meant to be understood literally. (I have already posted elsewhere that there are serios questions about the validity of all that is written in sefer kol hator. Rav M. Shternbuch makes this point in a tshuva).