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: R. Katina said, “ Six thousand years the world will exist and one the seventh, it shall be desolate ( haruv ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.

2: 11 )... R. Katina also taught, “ Just as the seventh year is the Shmita year, so too does the world have one thousand years out of seven that are fallow ( mushmat ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.

2: 11 ); and further it is written, ‘ A psalm and song for the Shabbat day ’ ( Ps.

92: 1 ) – meaning the day that is altogether Shabbat – and also it is said, ‘ For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past ’ ( Ps. 90: 4 ) ( Sanhedrin 97a ).”