The Zohar has many sections, some more kabbalistic than others. One is called Sifra D’tzniusa, and it deals directly with the kabbalistic origin of Creation. It requires considerable background in Kabbalah to understand, even with the commentary that the Vilna Gaon (the GR”A) provided. However, the following from the Gaon reads pretty straightforward:
You should know that these days allude to the 6,000 years, and are the six days, as mentioned earlier in Ch. 1: The 6,000 years depend upon the six days, and all the specifics of the six days will occur in the 6,000 years, each one on its day and in its time. From this you can figure out the redemption of b’ittah if we don’t merit it, God forbid, [achishenah]. It is the final redemption, and I impose an oath in the name of the God of Israel that the person who reads this will not reveal it. (Sifra D’tzniusa, Ch. 5)
I have a chavrusa whose great-grandfather was a kabbalist in Jerusalem who supposedly made the calculation, but he could not compare notes with a fellow mekubel who had done the same thing because of the Gaon’s oath.
One thing seems to be obvious. The GR”A is saying that Moshiach’s arrival in the sixth millennium is based upon an event that occurred during the corresponding sixth day of Creation. Would it not make sense then that the event would be the one that first undid redemption back in the Garden of Eden?
After all, the gematria of nachash—snake, who led us into exile is the same as Moshiach, who will lead us out of it.
After all, as of 1990 we have been living in the tenth hour of the sixth millennium that corresponds to the tenth hour of Day Six when Adam ate the forbidden fruit.
After all, the Internet is the best example of a modern Aitz HaDa’as Tov v’Ra, and it became prominent in 1990 when the tenth hour began.
The theory is therefore that, if someone can figure out the precise time during the tenth hour on Day Six when the first man changed history in our direction, they will be able to figure out the respective year during which Moshiach will come, and mankind will change history back in the direction of Adam HaRishon.
That far the Talmud did not go. It tells us that Adam HaRishon ate during the tenth hour, but that corresponds to 83.33 years in millennium time, beginning in September of 1989. That’s still a fair bit of time, except that 32 years have already happened, and Techiyas HaMeisim, the resurrection of the dead is set to begin some time between four and eight years.
No wonder current history has become so wild and confusing.
Just because so many people have no clue what is going on or why, and so many others have a difficult time believing that Moshiach will come in their time, does not mean that it isn’t happening. Anyone living when it happens will have to change their way of thinking, and more than likely, it will happen for them.