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In Nisan they were redeemed, and in Nisan they will be redeemed in the future.
-Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 11a
Truth will spring from the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven. In the days of the Messiah, the times of God will become clear, and the righteous will walk in His light.
-Midrash Tehillim (on Psalm 85:11)
Elijah will come to herald the arrival of the Messiah, and he will teach the mysteries of the calendar, revealing the hidden times of God.
-Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, Chapter 43
The coming of the Messiah will not occur until the measure is full, as it is said, ‘In its time I will hasten it’ (Isaiah 60:22). The school of Eliyahu interpreted this to mean: In its appointed time if they are not worthy; but hastened if they are righteous.
-Pesikta de-Rav Kahana 5:9
The Sages taught in a baraita: With regard to the seven-year period, i.e., the Sabbatical cycle, during which the Messiah, son of David, comes: During the first year, this verse will be fulfilled: “And I will cause it to rain upon one city and cause it not to rain upon another city” (Amos 4:7). During the second year of that period, arrows of famine will be shot, indicating that there will be famine only in certain places. During the third year there will be a great famine, and men, women, children, the pious, and men of action will die, and the Torah is forgotten by those who study it. During the fourth year there will be plenty but not great plenty. During the fifth year there will be great plenty and they will eat, and drink, and rejoice, and the Torah will return to those who study it. During the sixth year, heavenly voices will be heard. During the Sabbatical Year, wars, e.g., the war of Gog and Magog, will be waged involving the Jewish people. During the year after the conclusion of the Sabbatical Year, the son of David will come.
-Sanhedrin.97a.2
What were these twelve months for? From the [new collection] they would offer the continual sacrifices and the additional sacrifices, the libations, the omer, the two loaves, and the showbread, all the communal offerings, and the guards of the towers of Edar [Migdal Eder] and the guards of the city.
-Mishnah Shekalim 7:4
And Jacob proceeded and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder, the place where the King Messiah will reveal Himself at the end of days.
-Targum Jonathan on Genesis 35:21
If Israel repents for even a single day, the Son of David (Messiah) will come immediately. If they do not repent, the redemption will come in its appointed time.
-Sanhedrin 97b
The school of Eliyahu (Elijah) taught: Six thousand years is the duration of the world. Two thousand of the six thousand years are characterized by chaos; two thousand years are characterized by Torah, from the era of the Patriarchs until the end of the mishnaic period; and two thousand years are the period of the coming of the Messiah. Six thousand years is the duration of the world, and it is in ruins for one thousand years. The duration of the period during which the world is in ruins is derived from a verse, as it is stated: “And the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day” (Isaiah 2:11). That is the course that history was to take, but due to our many sins, the Messiah did not come after four thousand years passed, and furthermore, the years that elapsed since then, which were to have been the messianic era, have elapsed.
-Sanhedrin.97a.14, 97a.12, 97b.01