Sefer Daniel: Perek 1 - Part 1

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com wanted to reveal the uh targum on the navient and when he did uh when he revealed the tagum on the novem it says that ours Israel shook 400 ammos by 400 ammos 400 right past about 400 pasta and But ultimately he said that he's not doing it for his own honor he's doing it for the honor of the Tyra Israel he didn't want there to be um I guess and therefore he gave the uh authoritative and definitive translation of the navient but he was not allowed to give the tiger why because contains the ketayaman it contains a date when the Gula when mashaf would have come and therefore I'll be honestil was not authorized to disclose the targum on safer Daniel and safer Daniel is not an easy safer to understand a lot of it is written in Aramaic and because in the language of Daniel it couches the exact date when the chef would come so it's uh clouded in a lot of uh layers of mystery therefore it's not so easy to understand uh many parts of safer Danielle but I want you to know it brings down that in Greece the customers that they would actually Lane safer Daniel during the three weeks why because it's a the time that we are yearning for the coming of meshiach and therefore during the three weeks they used to lay and stay for Daniel in uh Greece so let's see we'll have to see we'll have to say something let's begin a Park Olive let's begin with the beginning out of the operating principle that a Navarro can have multiple meetings yeah well the whether Daniel was a navi that's also the gamar says he wasn't enough [Music] another why wasn't he he wasn't well let's find out let's find it who was he let's see let's see who he was at the beginning of the safer Daniel who was he he wasn't anybody yet well let's we'll have to see okay so it's peregales aleph it uh sets the background in the following way in the third year of the reign of yahoyakim the king of Yehuda but the king of Baba came to shalayam and he set Siege to the city now if anyone's familiar with navium if you if you look in say from malachem Bayes the 23rd and 24th chapters there is no such person wasn't he a king that's right there was no such person his name was El yakim his name was El yakim where do you get the name yahoyah come from yeah I'm telling you that there's no such person there was no such person his name was El Jacob and in Para on the song well let's see what happened what happened was came and conquered Israel he changed this individual whose name was el yakim el yakim to Yahoo yakim okay and that was very common thing when somebody would conquer a country so they would take their most important people and they would rename them they would rename them so this individual's name was El yakim and the navi is setting the background for the for the story of safer Daniel and that is it took place in the third year of the reign of yehoyakim the problem though is the major problem that gazal deal with is that if the right to possible became the king or at least he came to Arizona said Siege in what year in the third year of the reign of yahoyaki which is simply not true not true it wasn't the third year it was not the third year if you take a look and with sad you're going if you take a look at what side you're going you have it upside your gun yeah so uh you should have it is really raises the same point but if you're going um spells it out very clearly and he asked the following question that has I'll deal with and that is the reign of yahoe yakim so what's the navi saying over here it was the third year Cinema the channel That was the first year now think about the following here are the navi saying then came and conquered arist Israel in the third year of yahoyakum's Reign one second that's not even the king yet didn't become the king until the fourth year of the bukhana says rain and it's not like the first thing did when he became king is okay my first plan a is go conquer El cisral took him many many years from the time he became king until he conquered Hearts Israel because kazal tell us first year which we're saying is really the fourth year of Yahoo's reignets are conquers ninvee then they became his capital and then in the second year of his Reign he conquers yahoi yakim here take a look at what side you're going how can we say that this was was in fact the third year did not become king until the fourth year of the reign of yahu yakim Allah you know what it means over here what it means is not the third year of the reign of yahoyakim the third year of yahuiakim's rebellion attacked and set Siege to yerushalayim it wasn't the third year of yahoyakov's Reign because in fact what Why didn't it say so okay so let's we'll have to see what the navi means but it doesn't mean the third year of yaho yakim's Reign it means the third year of yahu yakim's rebellion so in other words becomes king in the fourth year of yakum's Reign became the king he conquers ninvee in the fourth year of um in the fifth year of Yahoo's Reign a conquerors and then for the next three years so let's get this in the fifth year of yahoi yakim's Reigns conquers him he then is his slave serves for year six year seven and year eight maintain the status of Noah no he was no longer an active King if he was serving him okay what's the meaning of the marriage well what we have to see we have to see and he rebelled in years what 9 10 and 11. he served him in the sixth seventh and eighth years of nebuchadnezza and then afterwards in other words he served him excuse me in the sixth seventh and eighth years of yakim's Reign in the 9th and 10th and 11th years of yoyakum's Reign he rebelled seriously again in the fourth year of yakum's Reign in the fifth year of the of them's Reign conquered um okay so in the fourth year of yahoyakum's reignetsa became king in the fifth year of yahua yakim's Reign conquers him yo yakum then serves the mukhanasars year six seven and eight six seven and eight according to Assad you're going and okay and then in years 9 10 and 11 . you Republican Rebels so for three years I'm ten and eleven uh yo y'all can read Bells against us is um you pay taxes yeah so now Riverside now this this story takes place doesn't mean in the third year it means at the end of the third year which is now the 12th year of yahoyakims now the question is why is it called if in fact it's not his third year it's really at the end of the 11th year it was something that he took out of that he was only a puppet King the third year to his real oh so right very good Navi saying is that it's the third year of his mouth was that he did not he was not a king in in conjunction with anybody else this is the first time in yakim's career that he is his own independent mellow so you say what about his first three years his first couple of years was the one who appointed him and was over him para Niko was over him in the beginning of his Reign so that was not considered his own independent Reign not until came and conquered and then yoyokum rebelles against the bucaneta so now these are really the first three years of his own independent Reign okay in the third year of universe oh if you reconquers yeah it's we can't get your welcome yeah so he was talking for three years and then yes correct yeah so this is the second time he's coming under the control of them what's the definition of his being independent versus um tradition he walked into the same room and sat on the same chair but it was year five six seven eight nine ten but yeah but he was under the Babylonian Empire he was he was under the umbrella of the band that he was over I don't know that's you know he wasn't the tribute thing here we have to see and say for malachim that we have to look and save him but what we're beginning over here is that when we say the third year of the march of Yaya it means the third year of the Rebellion okay and and these three years were his three years of Independence uh uh rulership okay so good you got the background background just in terms of Victor says there's something missing it's the opposite is that when you do see a little commercialized many times without saying that because I understand it's not the spouse [Applause] yeah so um we read it from Assad you're going which is basically the same thing as Rashi just with a very minor differences correct all right exactly whatever we just said is uh from Russian with Sajid is probably embellishing them okay okay so that's plastic Olive so again this is the third year of Yahoo's Rebellion comes to you Tain Hashem so now Hashem delivers into the hands of yo yakim into Canada and the Marvin points out that this happened immediately in other words into his hand there was no fight put up he just came in and he took you so the Malvern points out like three years ago the mountain points out it was take a this was this was immediately and that's when plastic stress is the special and so maybe you'll say the only way to understand that is because you know yakum sort of volunteered himself to them but that can't be because the pasta continues not only did but he also took it will make SAS clay based all they can be so some of the vessels of the Bayside mcdosh so obviously this is not something that yo yakim offered on his own Russia do we know that [Music] um but as he said he said if why did it take three years for him to deliver it he rebelled he did not come to quote the uh to the Rebellion until until three years and when he when he decided to to come and put it down for the three years when he said I had enough let's see okay you're here so it was the third year okay we'll Mix us clay baseball like him he took some of the vessels of the basement he brings it to the land of Shino now what's the land of shinar above all right why is rational practices points out why is Bravo called shinar because all of these all of the the bodies and everything that got destroyed in the marble shook down to there because uh shinar is a valley and everything sort of uh went in that direction based on a cup so he brings to the land of shinar to the house of his God now what does it mean to the house of his God what she points out right who makes us clay based on him he took them but he didn't take all of them some of them remained behind was not successful in taking all of the vessels back to Babel and he brings it to Eric shinar to the house of his God Rashi points out why to the house of this God he wanted to gloat to his idols so he brings all of the captives and he brings all of the people and all of the treasures first he brings to the basalikov and then after that vyasa calim and all the vessels he brings to his idolatrous Storehouse okay good so that's the beginning of this story well not yet because even after Yahoo Kim you have Yahoo and then after you have your hand um no not yet he's not ready to destroy the basement there's Lisa kill him but he didn't destroy the building yeah he didn't take and he didn't take all the Caleb this is like the positive points out this is the this is this special in other words this was special practice that goes together with um and the captives and he brings it first to his base alaikov and then to the base remember the name they have four Sons who had four Sons yeah right this is we're toward the end of the first placement right before where are you reading we're going to learn about the four the four boys well let's see yeah the chief Enoch the chief officer pasta Israel to bring Jews he wants Jews bring me juice in other words bring me some juice from foreign Royal Blood royal family now this according to them album This is not specifically referring to a description of what type of Jews a bring me juice and I also want to have Jewish people j-e-w-o-j-u-i-n-c not orange juice j-e-w-s not j-e-t-s okay okay Jewish people people of the faith right feather fellow brothers the Royal seat should also be Jewish now what does patime mean s yeah what does it means but if you look them up says the word partyman is a conjunction of a compound word whole fruit in other words he wants uh people without any mum without any imperfections okay and the plastic says you'll love them bring me boys bring me some boys ashrae Ibrahim call um or it's a red mum that don't have any imperfection but it's spelled like Civ is what's the difference between mum and ma'am so the Malvern points out that the word mom comes from the word mean anything at all in other words a mom is let's say something we're a real blemish means you don't even have the slightest scratch or the slightest imperfection right like the gemara says you don't even have the whole of the Lancet for war not a flop right the Tove married they should be of goodly appearance um [Music] they are wise in all now what children you love them young boys young boys and they understand Mada so now the question we have to ask is what is what is hakma what is Das and what is mother so the Melbourne says as follows the mountain says there's a difference Das is something that can be measured or can that has finite detection in other words Das means one plus one equals two that's dots you can measure something you could see with your own eyes something that can be detected something that there's a science behind right it's something that you could calculate let's say astronomy math medicine that is all Das Hoffman on the other hand is not something that you could measure scientifically is right and wrong right and wrong is not something that has a specific calculate calculation or mathematical formula it's a certain branch of wisdom that you could be very smart in terms of knowledge but not have an idea what is correct and what is incorrect that's classmate what's Mata mother is um there's a fine difference some album says between Das and Mata okay you ready for this one plus one equals two that's dance two times two equals four that's another piece of that four divided by two is two that's another piece of that right six minus four equals two it's another piece of that but when you put all the different formulas together addition subtraction multiplication um and Division and show you that all falls under the general category of Mada Mada is a general category category for all the specific branches of of specific information foreign there are a lot of people that know things and they can't explain them yeah now usually we say that if you can't explain something it means you don't understand it but the models himself writes on um it says that a person could be very bright but there's a special talent to be able to explain something and that's the town that but Salo had so it's a special to be able to convey information so that the ebenezuela means not only do they have the information but they're able to communicate it is to um yeah okay good was eight dollars uh and by the way there may be a difference between Das and Daya there may be this is in dancing there okay let's continue and also these boys these boys we wanted them to have the enough strength to stand in the Palace of the king what do you mean to stand so look at Rashi Rashi says that means I'll explain they would sort of force themselves from laughter right you know sometimes you get people okay you know they know how to behave but if something's a little bit funny then all of a sudden you know they can't control themselves anymore they don't have the self-discipline so one of the uh criteria that was looking for they people have to be controlled themselves from laughter or you know you know you ever go to you know in Washington you have the two guys that March back and forth with straight faces they don't move right in London oh yeah so right so so they have to be able to force themselves from laughter to control themselves from talking um from sleep then amas Marcus here if you can have a guard standing guard by Nebuchadnezzar if after 30 minutes of hearing you know some nonsense uh some political protocol he's gonna fall asleep he's not gonna be able to do the job and they have uh control over their physical functions you know they may have to do two day shifts without going you know to the uh basaki say so that's also important skill they need to have fine yeah doctors go to medical school you have to have uh last night the cold New Year celebration right yeah I'll tell you about uh I'll tell you afterwards anyway well the lambdum state fair what candidate is uh and to teach them safer now what it's safer what do you mean a Lambda safer right and we're showing cosm so the Marvel explains that safer is they have to have the preparation to understand and to remember the language now there are sometimes people could learn the language but they can't actually read the language right you have people they deal in business they can speak any language but they they can't read it inside so it's not enough to know the Lush on but I'm safer they have to actually be able to understand the language Innovative on the read it will shine now album explains means that this was a special way of communication in the king's Palace right the gamara talks about this that the politicians in the king's Palace had a more sophisticated communicative ability they spoke uh a term a type of language that others are not familiar with what The King's English yeah right The King's English so this was something that these children would have to learn fine now what are these kids going to eat what are they going to eat Cheerios Wheaties what are we going to feed them and the king would prepare now very interesting you would think that the chef would prepare or some kind of uh Minister would prepare no the king himself would prepare devario every single day not a one-time thing the king would set aside food every day the king would prepare me pass bhag now we look at the words pass back hamilla and we think it refers to bread we think it refers to Red Baron she says it does not refer to bread spag means cooked dishes because we're going to see that some people did not want to eat the past bag or we're going to see that the zaronim the seeds were referred to as pass back now seeds are not bread certainly seeds are not bread so past black just means the dishes of the king um and from his wine now why was it so important that the king would prepare the food himself and the wine himself right because the gamara tells us wine and fragrances make a person wise and every season has appropriate foods that are particular to that season whether it's cold outside when it's hot outside there's certain types of foods that are appropriate to eat when it's cold outside it helps you think better certain types of foods that are appropriate when it's hot outside it helps you think better so the king himself whenever the king himself was fed that's the kind of food that he set aside for these boys and it's the way the uh yeah it doesn't seem to work on Netflix here yeah yeah then album says it was the king yeah you prepare Rashi says Russian has manner she says he himself I'm sadly says he ordered it no so we're gonna see Rashi learns he prepared and the Malcolm also learns is this is an important thing this was the king himself prepared the food and this is a critical thing at least according to them album what yeah and he brought the Kalin basal Sorella cup and then it completely goes asunder and now it talks about bringing the kids and give them all the food what happened to the Caleb that he didn't do anything the story continues he put them in the treasury he put them in the treasury now is he gonna use them like uh belshazzar later uses them no but this is really the beginning of his downfall his taking the Calum is the beginning of his downfall he doesn't actually use them but his grandson will use them and that's the beginning of the end really the question the question is why why is he doing this why is he uh feeding the kids oh so exactly you know because he won he look he's gonna this is what I think it's gonna explain it is explaining it he specifically wants Jewish children Royal children and officers to serve him to be his advice deserves to be his ministers and therefore he's dependent on their intellectual prowess and therefore he wanted to prepare specific foods to enhance their their ability to uh to be effective in their role in in in his in his in his talents in his big picture and his scheme of things so to speak right yeah he's he's a controlled experiment he's running no he's giving him he wants the best talent to work for him directly in his Festival he's making sure that the food that they eat is good for their brains yeah and we're gonna see he's going to it is somewhat of an experiment because he's going to make us through this he's going to do this for three years and see you know who's going to emerge as the best candidates for him for these positions okay there is guinea pigs yeah so he he gives the food and from the wine that he drinks and he's going to raise three years awesome and then some of them some of these boys in other words he's gonna do this to many many boys so that some of them eventually will be able to stand before the king in other words let's say he took 100 kids and he's giving them all allowing them to go through this regimen you know says a hundred you know a thousand I enter lamikra 100 enter latama 10 and you know and one emerge so American Idols yeah something like that um we'll start you going we're starting points out muksasa means at the end in other words umik susiman at the end of the three years okay now there was among these boys from the children of Yehuda now um these specifically were the descendants of because right you wanted to learn yashaya right so yes that from your children will serve in the Royal Court of Baba so this is the fruition of the navu of ishaiah who is by the way how are your significo related father-in-law married right because girl married and eventually who came Menasha right but any event I mean your descendants will be in the court of Babel and who are these descendants these boys now the Malvern points out a very important thing first let's see who they were Daniel now this is my pet peeve you ready for this I've been more voices than three right no among the among the Jewish boys there were some from there's no such word as Daniel there's no name Daniel is it a one name no so Kevin it's like they go together so what does it say here it says it's not Donny ale it's dummy yeah I've been called worse but okay got the ale no look it's say Ray is under the hood now anyway enough with that but the Melbourne points out that he wants to argue on The Rao bag the al-bag says the fact that it says Yehuda that implies that all these four were from beneath and they didn't have better than that but the Malvern points out from an individual who the malbum is a very big proponent of and this is the the Mahari is um wrote a very important safer on uh and Daniel he says was a descendant okay there's the speed about that but that's the opinion of them albums and the Marie not like the rabba okay so these were the four individuals from Yehuda that were in the court among these are took gave them names now what is a saris aside from the fact that Osiris is means an officer but saris specifically means that they were sarisim they were infinite right the king would sterilize them so they would not be able to have children so that they would be able to serve him in their Court they were in English in unik e n u c h right so they so often these sarisim would rename their servants as a way to perpetuate their own name as if you know they're Curry ashamed to these people so he changed the name of these four boys but Daniel shots are now what does belt shots I mean Del chatzar says the malbum personal points out that the sarisim the Sarah has a reason did not change anyone else's name that there are perhaps hundreds of boys there he didn't change anyone else's name it was because of the special character um and personality of these four boys that he gave them special names and he saw a lot of promise and potential in these boys the same way lubuchanets are chains aw whose name right does anybody know what tsukio's name was in the beginning matanya says get his um changed his name so therefore of all these four boys the one that the Cyrus recent saw the most promising was Danielle and therefore he called him belt shots are what spelled shots are belshazza was the name of uh remember that his name was bail yeah foreign translation of Daniel but um the the album says it was the name of God and the safer Daniel himself says thank you right the name of the Babylonian Idol was Belle hey doll it hey it says explicitly n Di so it says explicitly Daniel the name was the name of of uh bubble's God it actually says is a very interesting explanation over here Zara means to hide to flee yeah and oddsar is treasure so in other words all the treasures of Babel were hidden in this individual so Bale is a lesson about the Zara Tash means to store away and outside okay so in other words he was the guardian of the treasures above in other words their God or which they saw this Godly ability in Daniel was uh the guardian of the treasures of it says means God was gracious to him but to explain all of these other names foreign Nouveau is also a name of their Idol but others just say that these other three names did not have specific uh connotations okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com