233 year deadline for Jews awaiting the messiah.

I stumbled on this while doing some research on prayer, and reading various Jewish web sites in regards to Jewish practices.


"We also must pray to God to hasten the coming of the Messiah. The Talmud says that one of the first questions a Jew is asked on Judgment Day is: "Did you yearn for the arrival of the Messiah?" Praying for such an event increases our sensitivity to what we currently lack, and demonstrates our sincere desire for the Messiah to arrive.
The Messiah can come any moment. Every generation has a special anointed Messiah waiting, for as stated, the Messiah is alive and present in every generation, "He is ready to be revealed at a moment's notice" (Sanhedrin 98a).
According to the Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a), history will last only 6,000 years from the time of creation. The Messiah must come prior to the 6,000-years, and bring us to the next higher spiritual reality millennium. In the year of 5761 (year 2000) leaving us only 239 years until the deadline of the coming of the Messiah."