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== Pushing the End (Dchikat HaKetz) == In several places, the prohibition against calculating the end [of exile] and pushing the end appears. For example: Rashi in Tractate Ketubot writes that Hashem made the Jewish people take an oath not to push the end, meaning they should not excessively plead for it. Many great Poskim discuss these words and explain why this does not contradict the expectation and request for Moshiach: * After five thousand five hundred years, it is not considered pushing the end but rather the time of the end. * Today it is not only permitted but obligatory to increase in supplications, and it is a great mitzvah. * The prohibition written in the Gemara is pushing the end through kabbalistic actions and the like.
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