Editing 50,000 Jubilees (section)

== Their Concept ==

=== In Kabbalah ===
It states in the Gemara: "Rav Ketina said: The world will exist for six thousand years and be destroyed for one, as it says 'And Hashem alone will be exalted on that day.'" This means that the duration of the world's existence is divided into six thousand years followed by the seventh millennium, "one of destruction" - like the cycle of the six days of creation followed by the Sabbath day, and like the six years of work followed by the Shemittah year.

Based on this foundation, it is explained in Kabbalah that this cycle - of "the world existing for six thousand years and one of destruction" - is the second Shemittah, and before it there was another Shemittah (about which it is said "Hakadosh Baruch Hu builds worlds and destroys them"). According to this, the later Kabbalists established that there would be five additional Shemittot, for a total of seven Shemittot - corresponding to the seven middot (attributes). In other places, it is brought that according to this calculation of seven Shemittot followed by a Jubilee, there will be 50,000 such cycles (50,000 Jubilees).

The Arizal disagrees with the opinion of these Kabbalists, and says that there are no other physical Shemittot like ours.

=== In Chassidut ===
In Chassidic teachings, it is explained that even according to the Arizal there was a Shemittah before our world - but not as a physical world, rather as the world of Tohu (chaos). Based on this, the Rebbe learns that the Arizal also agrees to the other Shemittot and Jubilees that will exist as spiritual worlds.

According to this, it is explained many times in Chassidut, and the Rebbe also explains, that all the Shemittot and Jubilees are spiritual, and our Shemittah - the six thousand years of the world's existence - is the only physical world. From this it is also understood that through our actions and service, all the 50,000 Jubilees are also elevated.

The concept of all these Shemittot and Jubilees is explained in Chassidut as spiritual worlds one above the other. That is, when our world in its six thousand years reaches its perfection after all its elevations - it will receive its reward in the seventh millennium, which is the end and perfection of the elevations, and in it there will be rest (like the Sabbath day after the week, and the Shemittah year after the six years). In this Shemittah, our world of Asiyah will reach the level of the world of Atzilut, and the world of Atzilut will be elevated to an even higher level. However, what is considered perfection relative to our Shemittah is considered only the beginning of creation - six thousand years - in a higher world, and the perfection of reward in the next Shemittah is in elevation to an even higher world. And so on, elevation after elevation.

In truth, there could have been many more elevations in Shemittot and Jubilees without end, but it arose in His will that there should be 50,000 Jubilees.