Daniel ch.11 - A Short History of the Greek Empire
Daniel ch.11 gives us the history of the Greek Empire until the period of the Maccabees. What implications might we draw from this historical overview?
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Daniel ch.10 - Seeing Angels
Ch.10 is the introduction to the final vision of the book.This chapter gives us a front-row seat as to the experience of prophecy, or at least, the encounter with a being - an angel - from the spiritual sphere.
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Daniel ch.9 - Daniel's Prayer (and Yom Hashoah)
Daniel sees that 70 years have past but the Exile is not over. He prays to God for mercy.One question raised by the Talmud is how a person's faith can remain intact after horrors like the Hurban (or the Holocaust) - and their meditation on our chapter offers some insight as to the changing nature of faith amid tragedy.
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Daniel ch.8 - Predicting the "End"
This chapter was used by many to try to calculate when the Redemption would arrive.
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Daniel ch.7 - Four Wild Beasts
With ch.7 we begin the second segment of Sefer Daniel - Daniel's vision. We start with a vision of 4 terrifying beasts outlining the history of "Four Kingdoms" of which we have already learned in ch.2.We close this podcast with Meir Ariel's song The Iron BeastListen here. English lyrics here"The metal era, the iron ageReminds me of an animal in Daniel's visionThe metal animal, the iron beastThe similarity to these days is disturbing.."
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