Zecharia: Chapter 1 - The Abarbanel Reveals the Hidden Meaning of "Hashem Master of Hosts"

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com hope everyone had a nice young Tiff we're learning uh now safer zacharya this is we learned um uh hagai which preceded zakaya we learned Malachi which followed zacharya and now there's a session we're going to learn safer zakaya was one of the last navians and we're going to see immediately that Rashi does something here for safer zakaya which is very rare and Rashi gives an introduction very rare for Rashi to give an introduction Rashi doesn't give an introduction even to any of the books of the Hamish um Rashi in general does not give introductions to any of the navient any of the books of the navient and here is Zachary which is not even a separate Navy it's one of the trails are Rashi gives an introduction to the safer zacharya and Rashi says the following foreign it's very ambiguous it's very sealed it's very ununderstandable it's amazing thing Rashi doesn't even give an introduction to savor Danielle where Daniel himself says seal up the prophecy and yet Rashi feels the prophecy of Zachary is so ambiguous so mysterious so clouded and shrouded in mystery Rashi has the need to tell us that this prophecy is foreign because there are in it visions similar to dreams hanite and Le pisroy which are given to interpretation and we are not able to interpret it here we're actually saying there are Visions here in zacharya which are open to interpretation and we are not able to interpret it and then perhaps we could suggest that when it comes to safer Daniel it's not necessary for Rashi to uh give an introduction and to say that these prophecies are shrouded in mystery because it's obvious they're shrouded in mystery the whole Daniel the Novi himself says right seal up the end so it's not necessary for Rashi to give us that introduction that you're not going to really understand that the navi himself says it the lest you think that this navua is easily interpreted mirashi has to warn us that it's not really given to interpretation Rashi says you know when you'll be able to interpret it when the righteous teacher comes who's that right oh yeah says Rashi I'm gonna do my best here and according to my ability I will pay attention I will try liaise to interpret and explain them one by one minute and I will primarily follow the interpretations of the target target gives us a jump start that we don't really know the meaning of these prophecies and Rashi is saying I'm giving my best educated guess based on the tiger medicine but bottom line is we're not going to understand these new voice until mashiach comes okay and with that we begin um zakaya was a member of the ancient together with khagai and Malachi at the beginning of the second base Summit and as we're gonna see he warns the people he admonishes them for not being having more alacrity in building the second base amigdush once permission was granted foreign in the eighth month what's the eighth month of the year okay in the second year of King Darius don't be don't confuse us with Darius the first Darius the mede this is Darius the Persian the son of Esther Hashem the word of God okay don't confuse this with zacharya who is the Cayenne who prophecies in the days of yahayash and who is stoned to death by the Jews this is the difference this is right we say in the kinos that we anticipate the Fulfillment of Ben barrachia which Ben barasca this this Sakaya he's the one who said Canaan was a canis yerushalayim that one day old men and old women will be sitting in the streets of you and leaning on their sticks from old age so he's the son of Baraka Ben edai the son of edoi look at the radak ah Benny died yeah the question is Hanover Lamar well the question is when the plastic says Hanabi the prophet who's the prophet is it going back only on zacharya or was it is it also going on either Navi maybe Ido is also a navi and we know there is a figure in tanath called maybe that's who it's talking about now probably say and say for Ezra zakari is called zakaya benidoy the same zacharya but sometimes in Tanakh were refer to somebody as a son of their grandfather if their grandfather was the more well-known says Rashi is this prophecy came before they began to rebuild the second base is because they began building the basement on the 24th day what does Rashi mean by that the 24th day of which month wouldn't it be the same night that's what you would think right you would think it's in the month of on the 24th fourth day of the month however I didn't learn a day that they started to build a basement right in Chicago we learned and imposter Park Bays pasta your house on the 24th day of his slave so really they did not begin to bring it to build until the next month so now she says the 24th of the month it's a little bit misleading maybe there's the word missing here in Rashi but it really means the 24th day of the next month so this is a very short time before they actually resumed uh Construction foreign was angry against your forefathers with katseth what's katseth real anger serious anger who are your forefathers the generation that witnessed the destruction of the samiktash you know at least 70 years earlier let's see the Tiger have a regasman Hashem got angry on your forefathers for that which they angered me oh that doesn't cause much in other words we would have read it Hashem got angry at them with an anger the tiger was translating it a little differently Hashem got anger on them because they angered me okay oh why why otherwise what I shouldn't get angry at that it's obvious problem the Melbourne says here's the summation he says by the bias we shine before Hashem destroyed the Visa make dust and Exile cry as well he constantly repeatedly sent prophets to warn us and to tell us about the impending disaster so that they should do chuba in other words Hashem was the one who opened to return that we should return to him and we did not respond in kind and now that all this evil has befallen them the anger is still there because there's the album The Gula of Courage was not a complete gula in other words point is God is still angry and the point is since God is still angry he's not going to send any more prophets to remind them to do chubashem already did that he's not gonna do it again the album says now you have to take the first step and then you should say to them so says God the Lord of hosts return to me no mashem says God the Lord of hosts now even if you're only up for let's say a third of this pasta you would still have picked up the fact that the revolution is the Lord of hosts over here right even if let's say your eyes are only half open even for one moment in this process you still would have got it the fact that what's the difference between the um and Omar I don't know the beginning and that means like on behalf of gnome is also the word of but the model knows the point is that since God reprimanded him and the anger is still against him he's not going to send them any more to be him because now as we're going to see prophecy is beginning to dwindle and now they have to do chuba on their own and they have to return to me and then I will return to them what's the reason you mentioned the repetition ah so I'd like to look carefully at this pasta pasta gimmo so here we have the fact that God is the master of Legions three times now we've already spoken out in in Shira many times but the reason why the revolution is because he's the master of Legions of Malachi asharis there are hundreds of thousands is the the master of all of them however why in the world would this plastic mention three times we're going to see in safe Izakaya this is a phrase that repeats itself many times this reaction is going on here yeah Hashem says telling people who returned to me right and the third time is if I will return to you right so there's three different things going on right it's okay right it's three actions to the right there are three ideas being conveyed over here one is foreign but the first I mean the first one the first one is like just a introduction to me then how should my life right two ideas though right okay look I want to show you take a look pass this out um he um has a very interesting explanation for the repetition of Hashem I've had vanilla was uh he was a descendants and he says the following is that hanavi in the words of this Navy Hashem this name of God of Hashem is fluent in his mouth why is no yeah is also a reference to not just the hosts of malachem but the legions of Israel were exiled and we know they were exiled and they didn't all return only who returned and very few of the other foreign so you would think that Hashem he still is he still yield kevke he's still a lakenu he's still kale he's still wrath but he's not Hashem he's not the God of all the shwaten because there are no shwaten so maybe you would think that that title is no longer befitting of God that's why the novice refers to Massachusetts Israel he is still the guide he's still the overseer of the schwatim the Halloween that's a paraphrase I believe Israel these scattered tribes God will re will gather in his name has not been lost ayam and he's still existing in other words like this we have a tradition that even though there are no guarantees on any on any individual Jew no Jew has any guarantees about them that their family that their family will forever remain loyal to Judaism but there is a haftaha that there will always be a cloud Israel but so too there's also have Tasha that every shaved will always exist forever so therefore the navi is emphasizing even though the the schwatten were exiled and even though they didn't all return but still God is still watching over all the wherever they may be wherever in golus they are and one day he's going to restore them and that that dimension of the riban Islam has not been lost he's still called like Israel and it's like Hashem saying to them after you saw Hashem that goddess Israel who is who has many Legions got angry at them skip to the next sign Roy lochem it is it is uh befitting that you return to him he's still the master of Your Allegiance the tidba Kuba you should cling to him and when you do this I'll return to you in other words I will gather all your Legions from all the four corners of the world I will return to dimash Via new cabins Israel yes from here we could understand why it has to say hashems three times so let's see if we can figure that out why why does it have to say something three times the answer is so says Hashem is foreign I got angry at you but if you return to me the master of Legions I will return to you and and gather you in from all the four corners of the world in other words this is a plead to call Israel that if they return to hashemakos he will be and he will act for them as Hashem and he will gather all the shots and back okay plus a dollar historically that's the defense button uh they're not they're not intact anymore they're negatively Afghanistan and they mix them with the Afghans and the mixed in Taliban in Africa it sounds like it's 10 uh tribes out there attacked you know practicing Yiddish guy throughout the world and I don't think that we uh have to you know accepted that kind of idea I mean we think that they're assimilated into these peoples he's saying here they're gonna take them out and well first of all this is what will be that God will restore them now did he restore them the gemara says in the gala they hear me out another you brought back that sort of right I'm not accusing anyone at this table but uh they're here they're out of the bar Park Flatbush Williamsburg Monroe Garden Hills two gardens I don't know Main Street Union Turnpike this time the river in India is supposed to be something is over there but uh look I don't know about Legends I could just tell you what the gemara says the gamara says here Mia brought back that starts he brought back people from Mother's bathroom I don't know are you they're Jews okay so we tried to explain it out to you don't be like your forefathers that they called out to them the first novem now who are the first interview the gemara says so the first Naveen called out to the Jews lame are saying so says God master of hosts return please from your bad your bad actions so the Navy's saying don't be like your forefathers who the they were reprimanded and they didn't listen they didn't listen to like Shiva they were not attentive Eli no om Hashem now what's the difference between don't they both mean bad ways stand there are bad ways and better ways what are the what is the difference between them album says some album does not explain the difference between and evil ways are referring to the bad character traits and evil Deeds that were performed as a result of the bad character tricks man who says that well hearing roles yeah but the model doesn't say that foreign interesting now by the way what's the difference between like Shamu and like Shibu the album says Shemia is a deeper level of listening about that are you here are you really just here it goes in goes out nothing happens right are you really compute actually what you heard so which one is more more intense deeper right yeah so the album says not only did they not hear on a deep level but they they didn't even hear it at all my usual means to be macabo right or we have uh deeper listen or you have yala the other even after it finds favor with God but he hadn't the shama is even deeper okay the navi says like this have I saved them and your fathers where are they behind the VM and the prophets will they live forever meaning the Navy's saying look what happened to your forefathers for not listening where are they now they're gone you're for your ancestors are gone they were punished for their being inattentive to the words of the prophets so you'll say very nice that our forefathers are gone but so are the prophets gone the same way that our ancestors who were reprimanded are not alive anymore well the prophets who reprimanded them are also not alive anymore so the navi says yes but what do you think the prophets are going to live forever will the prophets live forever now that's not a very strong argument Matthew you go to someone and say huh look what happened your forefathers were reprimanded and now they're gone so the guy so they say back yeah but so were the the rabbis are reprimanded yeah what do you want they're gonna live forever so they could say right back you think our ancestors live forever sarashi points out like this that your forefathers died unnaturally in hunger By The Sword in captivity I the prophets are not here either no he says you think they can live forever the proof is in the pudding in other words the prophets died a natural death your forefathers they died unnaturally plastic love ah davari but my words and my statutes I should CVC that I commanded my servants the prophets they all befell your ancestors and then when Hashem planned to do for us according to our actions so he did with us in other words they realized that the election was punishing them for their actions okay so now we begin the first vision of zakaya and again let's see I want to remind you that Rashi opened up the safer with an introduction that these these uh prophecies are shrouded in mystery we can't even interpret them so we can have all kinds of hiroshim you know who wrote who wrote zacharya these are the newest of Zechariah actually zacharya and redacted it and made it part of Tana so that you have the gomoran balavasra the gemara says there Isa now what does that mean because it also says they wrote McGillis Esther and the Magilla says martikayanester wrote Miguel ancestor they started to become part of the biscarova and the ramam says when it says that they were kasab doesn't mean they wrote it means they they codified it they uh they canonized it that's when they allowed us to become part of Tana okay so let's start the first prophecy okay everyone get on your profit hats okay we're going into the realm of of Prophecy Beyond on the 24th day of the 11th month the month of Shabbat in the second year of dariusham was the word of God Al zacharya foreign follow the same pattern but it tells us the Trot we don't know which shot huh good question why in plastic Olive it just tells you which which uh number month and it doesn't say and here it tells you the name of the month so obviously uh the name of the month is very significant also imposter golfer does not say the date of the month and here it does say the date of the month now when we're learning I believe we pointed out from that barber now then in general when prophecy is given it doesn't say that data the dates of it and certainly not the date of the month and when it does there's a reason for it there's a significance there's a connection with the day so we have to understand why does it say Shabbat why does it say that the uh 24th day of the month now we already know something about a 24th day of a month at the start of the construction right when do they start in Kiss life and now this is how many months later two two months later how many days later we're gonna see 59 days later okay and keep that in mind also the pro it why is telling me zacharya Bamberg you know we already got his lineage in possible why is it going through again his whole uh ancestry spell ego differently yeah [Music] you know before it did not be Olive foreign [Applause] okay so these are all things that um we will have to investigate so let's see the first Vision we'll just translate and we'll try to explain it let's Hashem next time so on a vision of night riding on a red horse and he was standing among the murders that was in the depths the astrov and after him red horses colorful horses wolavan and white horses and the angel that spoke to me said to me anirko I will show you mahimailah what these are and the man answered who stood between Hashem that God sent to his house to walk in the land Hashem and they answered they responded to the angel of God who stood between the murders we walked in the Earth and behold the whole earth is sitting the shaikates and his tranquil and what this means as a system will try to explain next week Tuesday you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com