Sefer Daniel: Perek 11 - Political Intrigue of Ancient Greece

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com but we're going to go back to One pasta I just want to take a look at one more pasta at the end of parakeet that's Daniel peregyard and this is the malach Gabriel speaking to Danielle and he's telling Danielle about the Persian Empire and how the Persians will be somewhat friendly and um and positive to the Jewish people but nevertheless the Empire that follows the Persian Empire and the Greeks will be much more difficult and not even he Gabrielle's talking not even I he says can uh protect the Jewish people from the Greeks but look he writes but let me tell you no they can't do a job two jobs in one time that who doesn't mean they can return and do another job they can do another job after they finish the first job okay Gabrielle traditionally the gamara says he's a mark of din so whenever Hashem needs him he's ready to do his job Gabriel tells Danielle I will tell you as hiroshim that which is imprinted in a true script and there is not one person who strengthens himself with me Ali left for these Mikhail your minister your specific angel in other words Gabrielle is saying that this impending decree of the Greek Empire let me tell you that Gabrielle says it is written in a true script and nobody is even strengthened with me in order to protect you from the Greek Empire says Rashi Q Zara what does it mean that which is written in a true script the document of decree the MS who it is true and none of the angels are doing anything or can't do anything to protect you only Mikhail the the ministering angel of Israel now it's quite interesting that the gamara is andaf Cafe asked the following question what does Gabrielle mean as harassment what's written in a true script as opposed to what as opposed to what's written as Sheck of a hustle well in other words let me tell you something let me say let me tell you what's written truthfully as opposed to what as opposed to the books that are Bubba meisis can be changed it's a gazera that's written ah from Hashem that are Ms and some from Hashem Isis could be changed yes so tomorrow says if it's written what's a shibua then it's true and it cannot be reversed but if it's written without a nose if God doesn't take a nose then it could be reversed so this is saying let me tell you what's written because of Ms with an oath with the shmuel and therefore it can't be reversed but even so Gabrielle is telling Danielle may be able to do something even though it's an O even though it's written with a with Yeshua okay now we're up to perk your aleph now perki aleph some of the hardest took him that we've seen so far I took a look at it last night and my head was spinning because in order to understand these took him you have to know Greek history you have to say what you have to know Greek history why do you have to know Greek history the Melbourne explain every detail they took him different events and politics in ancient Greece about different Governors and different Emperors plotting against other Emperors women plotting against other women rival wives plotting against other rival wives and apparently the Melbourne writes very clearly he learns Greek history and based on the knowledge of the details of the Gory details of Greek history he explains the details of these tooken so finally I I went over it this morning maybe get it a little clear the first thing we have to know is the Emperor the first emperor of Greece who took over he defeated the Persian Empire was obviously Alexander Alexander the Great he became uh Emperor at a very young age I believe at the age of 20. his Empire lasted for 12 years so you became like the environmental in the Bible you studied Greek history yeah the only thing is I had about you know one night to do it yeah Alexander the Great his Reign lasted for 12 years he died prematurely at the age of 32. right what what happened to me according to the historians he he got a fever and he died in Persia dangerous place right the Civic area [Music] um it's called the crazy River today he always going to be a mile away from the river yeah so Alexander interesting Alexander he became emperor at the age of 20 his Empire lasted 12 years he died according to One account at 32 another count at 33. after his Empire was over after excuse me his untimely death his Empire was split among his four his generals who were the four his generals tomai Tom I took Egypt Solutions took I am Syrian Assyria and Babylon Antigone he took Persia and Asia Minor and Philip who's Philip Philip was Alexander's brother he took Macedonia okay so after after Alexander Alexander's Empire was uh split up among his four generals tomahi took Egypt salute Solutions took a Syria and Babylon Auntie gonas took Persia and Asia Minor Philip Alexander's brother took Macedonia there was plenty there there's a lot to take right a lot to take now so far we had this prophecy twice paragzayan we Daniel had a vision of The Leopard with four heads and four wings the leopard represents Greece the foreheads represents the breakup of Greece into the four generals he also in Paris he saw the he goat The Sire that had one horn and then the horn breaks away and four horns grow in its place that represents that the Empire of Alexander is going to break up into four now we're going to get a little bit deeper into the Greek Empire now out of the four Empires only two of them really had kium the second and the northern Empire the northern Empire of Babylonia and Assyria which was taken over by Solutions which later became known as antokia which we had Antiochus the first and from there the Antiochus who was involved in the Hanukkah story who was a tremendous adversary to the Jewish people the two main empires of the four were the South that's Egypt and the north Babel and Paras okay so let's take a look and also they didn't they weren't able to yeah okay so listen to this is it was now I was in the first year of Darius the mede now who is Darius the meat there were two daryovicious who are the two dairyavishes well you had a lot of information over here Darius the stuff was the one who gave permission to build and then he rescinded it who came after Kai race who came after that Darius the Persian so you have four Kings Darius the mid Darius named yeah According to some accounts karish had a son what was the son's name his name was what according to the uh this is [Music] Cyrus had a son named campuses canvases yes or in Hebrew bambisha bambisa sounds good yeah that was his name now we're gonna see about him okay so you thought you know you sleep through high school and you never have to hear about this stuff again no now you're learning that you really needed to know this stuff because otherwise you're not gonna understand the Tanakh okay it was now in the first year of Darius the med the first day of it omdi I stood up who's whose eye who's talking Gabrielle the Mala I stood up to support well I'm always lying to give strength look at Rashi Passage fell as and the Empire of media and Persia stood up foreign and the Heavenly angels of Persian media were asking God God we want to get the Jews we want to make life miserable for the Jews you have to understand that whenever you see things happening in this world this world is not where it's at really before anything happens the battle takes place in heaven once the battle has taken place in heaven whatever the outcome of the battle in heaven is this world is merely a reflection of what has already taken place in heaven for example for example um yakovino sends words right he says he said your name is Israel because you fought you fought with angels and Men so the mouse sarashi says the Angels Army you fought with me and man is you beat Lavon and you beat Asaf the question is yankovina didn't face ASAP yeah he hasn't even seen himself why is the Angel telling yaakov that you already beat Asaf he hasn't seen ASA the answer is once yaakov beat the angel of ASAP so then whatever will happen between him and as of is a foregone conclusion it's already occurred it's already happened so they used to askerman that you know we should protest and we should stage uh we should have um official marches and parades against what the government is doing he says it's all nonsense because if the government has issued a decree that means in heaven it's already a foregone conclusion we to to accomplish in this world is not hitting the nail on the head you have to effectuate in the shamayim in the heavens because that's where it's at so therefore yeah the sorry stuff the the malachimovis is in heaven whatever Hitler did down here his only reflection of the ratsun of shamaim he was alone they said he had chicken legs he was he was a shed some people say that he never took off his boots even when he slept because his feet were deformed they were like chicken legs so they say he was a shin dollop he wasn't really a human being I read it Messiah said I wrote it in the book so they say it's very interesting the Malik is saying that when the Heavenly angels of Persian media requested of God God could we get the Jews so Gabriel said I I really took up the cause and I went to mikha and I said defend the Jews because in the shamayim our main defending Angel is Mikhail okay now listen to this okay this is it gets juicy okay don't don't ever say Daniel isn't Juicy plastic base Aguilar let me tell you the truth going back to what he said in possible what's written in a true writing there will yet be another three kings of Persia who are the additional three kings of Persia so far we had daryavesh we're gonna have Percy the fourth King now when we say the fourth King in other words another three so in total four and right so in total four so the fourth King is going to be the wealthiest of all [Applause] and as his wealth becomes strong he will arouse everyone against the Greek Empire says Rashi there will yet be another three kings who are the three kings zakarish verois the Persian built the third the second base why does it say that in the fourth reveal lamadai including dayavish the madai he's the fourth however around she says there's another version I will be safe for Yosef and gorion in yosefone in chapter three kasov shahyalai Ben lakhoresh korresh did have a Sonos between courage had a son and his name was in English what was his name to fight with the kings of yavan okay now listen to what's happening after the Persians who arises after the Persians whenever you see a Persian you should know there's a Greek not far behind me a great king will stand up says smoked on Alexander from Macedonia um and he will command great power he'll do as he pleases but as she says he'll do it as he pleasesh the king of Paras he'll kill him and they will accept his reign and the Persians will be subservient unto thee ivanim now but so we had earlier that when we talk about Alexander it talks about him flying why because his victories were so quick it almost appeared that he was flying through the air he was able to lightning strike from one area to the next let's click plus six dollars but when he gets very strong in his Pinnacle of power his muscles will break the second it will split to the four ends of the heavens AI after it breaks it will not beat to his end what is a person's end what is a person's Aquarius his descendants the Dominion of Alexander will not go to his descendants now did Alexander have any children so those who know Greek history will remember then Alexander had did you say before Alexander for four generals but did he have any the biological descendants he had two sons Heracles did they teach you the San Andreas Alexander had two boys Heracles who is an illegitimate son and Alexander the fourth August who was born posthumously Augustus no we'll say after he died he was born after he died okay he was conceived before he died and he was born he was born after he died they were both killed in their childhood you know what in their childhood so Alexander did not have any living descendants his two boys were killed in their child so that's what the person is you see if you don't know Greek history can't understand the second you see continuously the Malibu says he doesn't mean he means in the Greek Chronicles his Dominion will not go to his end the life kamash life and his power that is given over to generals will not be like Alexander's power they will only be a watered-down version of Alexander that he wrote his mouthless will be torn away villain and given to others besides these four in other words even though the main inheritors of an Alexander's power were these four generals who were again who remembers of four generals tamai um values Solutions antigonas and Phillip nevertheless they were others of lesser Imports Philip was Alexander's brother So for anybody to know yeah okay so look at Rashi um when Alexander became very strong and he stood on his might in the Pinnacle of his powers he died he was divided to the four ends of the heavens cause of the same for Ben-Gurion in mangorion she says it's written no not David Ben Gurion is divided to four heads these are the four heads of the eagle that in paragzan it says a leopard yeah a leper thank you the Daniel so and behold another Beast like a leopard villag it had four wings Dio falgaba of a bird upon it the arba Russian and the foreheads him this is and also Danielle saw the same thing in paragres where he saw the Horn of the he goat that that was broken by the four horns that came out after and it will not be left of Allah you won't go to his children the Dominion will not be left to his sons Ella of name is only to the sons of his family after him refers to children and they will not inherit the same power as Alexander apostake you ready this is very juicy stuff okay Alexander yes [Applause] and the King of the South became strong look carefully the King of the South became strong of the four kingdoms mentioned only two had lasting importance the South Egypt whose ruler was tamai or his official name is tamai the first soter the son of Lagos he founded the the talmayak Dynasty and the other the other Empire that had came was the north Syria Syria was ruled by Solutions the first nicotor the son of Antiochus he started the solutions Dynasty so you have the of the four the southern one was founded by tamai the northern one was founded by Solutions okay look at look at the pasta carefully the King of the South became strong um not only did he become stronger than the northern Empire he even became stronger than the Ministers of the northern Empire that's how you read the process what's the Eden it's the cover if he became stronger from the king avadi became stronger from the sorrow yeah because usually the general takes orders from the minister what it means to say is right it says like this he became stronger um if it says then the officers included a net it's like the plastic is not saying and from his Northern adversaries it says he became stronger from even the princes but that means from the northern northern Prophet um Empire and the princes in other words it means like this the southern king became stronger than who then the north it doesn't say it leaves it out it's understood like like this like in the person woman praise him all the women because Hashem was kind to us why should the guardian praise Hashem because Hashem was kind to us so the person means like this ready you ever anyone here ever say hello no hello so we say how how's God all the nations because he's kind to us why why does the Italian have to thank God because hashem's nice to the Jews answers you have to know how to read the possibility and certainly we have to praise Hashem you know why so the plastic means like this goyam has to praise God we certainly have to praise God because God is kind to us yeah but what does have to do with this fight it means like this he became stronger than the southern Empire became stronger than the northern Empire and the sarin and the Sun it's not a kavakame just going unstated and he overpowered him oh Marshall and he ruled over them a great rulership from his Dominion looking Rashi the head that rules in the south was stronger than the opposing head and from his officers now what does this mean though the malbum reads it like this [Music] there are different ways of reading this plastic one way of reading it is the King of the South will go stronger than the North and the northern Nobles [Applause] another way to read this is min Sarah [Music] like this take a look instead of um it could be read Min Sarah the King of the South was among the officers of Alexander because taumai was a Macedonian nobleman and he had been one of Alexander's most trusted generals that's how the abarinel learns another way to read this is the way the malbum reads it the album reads it um one of his servants will become even stronger than him again who are we talking about we're talking about tamai in the south is generals was one of Thomas generals was Solutions Solutions who was one of Thomas generals went to the north and solutions became even stronger in the townai himself from among the officers of the South he became stronger than tamai himself now let's let's hear what happened over here after Solutions flees to Babylonia after he excuse me after solution starts his own Empire in Babylonia the Persians started moving toward Solutions Empire whereupon Solutions had a flea back to his rebby thomai and then after tamai together with Solutions defeat antigonus the Persian Emperor Solutions goes back to the north okay now Solutions is back in Babylon so listen to what's happening Solutions no Solutions and Tom I join up against antigonas he's the ruler of the Persian corner so he's one of the four generals yeah and he's the ruler of the Persian part and solutions and tamai defeat antigonus now listen to what happens so what happens listen after antigonus is defeated Solutions returns to Babylon to the north to the north he enlarges his kingdom to the east what's east of Persia India north south he enlarges the kingdom to India he enlarges Westward to Syria so he has a massive Empire Syria Persia India that's called Antioch there were there was a shooter oh you ready we're now we're up to the shadow that's where everything gets haywired by the middle so you have in the north a major Empire ruled by Solutions you have in the South a major Egyptian Empire led by tamai now let's understand these people don't last forever so they're fighting for many years now after Solutions you had Antiochus number one Sota so the first ruler of Antioch was Solutions the first nicotor not nicotine nicotor okay that's number one after him came Antiochus the first Sota after him came Antiochus II Theos these were the rulers of the North in the south first he had talmi the first after Tama the first who did you have now tell me the first was not a friend of the Jews but Tommy II was a friend of the Jews he was called tamai II philadelphus okay not to be confused with Philadelphia cream cheese Tommy II philadelphus was a good friend of the Jews in fact thank you Tomi II philadelphus was the sponsor of the Greek translation of the Bible the Septuagint the tagum the Shivan right well we learn about him in Messiah mcgilla so now after many years of fighting they decided let's make peace enough fighting you have plenty of land Persia India Syria and we have plenty of land in Egypt so they decided to make peace now how are they going to make peace how many I might have sent the letter to Antiochus II Antiochus II was married to a woman by the name of laodice Lotus Lotus by the way Lotus was the daughter of antiochus's Uncle who is the brother Antiochus the first so I jokes II was married to leotis you ready you ready for this Mesa Antiochus II was Natalie Otis she had already born him two children Tommy II said you know what to make peace why don't you marry my daughter take leotus throw her out the window into the lake and let her go fly a kite after she jumps into the lake get rid of your wife marry my daughter and that will create a convergence of the two empires it'll be shalom al-ha goyam so sure enough why didn't you have two wives and we're not allowed to have to watch no only one didn't work they understood one is more than enough and the SEC the daughter of tamai her name was Berenice Blackberry burning Berry and he takes leotis and she said he says adios Amigo in in Persian and he marries baranis the problem is then the schwar died tamai died after time I died Antiochus II said what big is it to be married to the daughter of someone who's dead is to be married to the daughter of the jet of the emperor of the Egypt but now he's dead so what did he do he took Berenice and he said adios to you and the problem is Tom I made a deal that if you marry my daughter whatever son she Bears to you is going to be the next emperor of joint Temple of both Empires so anyway but now the time is dead um Antiochus II takes back La Otis but laotis knows that not her sons are going to be the next emperor so you know what she does she kills me she takes poison and on Shabbos when she's serving until II poison um challenge she puts some cyanide in the kishka he takes a bite of the kishka he says this is the best kiss guy ever tasted in my life and moments later he's in the islands the problem is but The Boy The Boy Is the succeedor of the of the Empire so you know what she does the first thing she does lionis takes baronis and she has her throat slit and then she has her entire family murdered and this is what made that the Persian Empire and the Egyptian Empire the solutions the Antioch led by Solutions and the Egyptian the tamayic empire were never able to convert and when the glaim are not able together things are always better off for the Jews and we'll read this in 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