Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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The Rambam posits that the ultimate punishment for the wicked is ceasing to exist like an animal. The Ramban disagrees and believes that the ultimate...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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The importance of the faith in the resurrection of the dead is stressed by the Sages and the Rambam. God’s original plan was for man to live eternally....
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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Vague allusions to the resurrection of the dead exist in the Torah. More substantial ones are found in Yeshayahu and Yehezkel. Daniel is the first to...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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The Greek empire - the mixed clay and iron feet in Nevukhadnetzar’s dream and the main focus of Daniel’s visions - was the first empire to wage an all-out...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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The revelation of God or an angel leaves an impact both on those viewing the revelation and those in the vicinity of the revelation. The angel prophesied...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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Chapter 10 is dated to the third year of Koresh. The descriptions of Koresh in Yeshayahu and in Ezra imply that he showed kindness towards the Jews and...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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An assumption is made that Daniel’s prayer in chapter 9, a prayer that was necessary in order to bring redemption, was uttered at the time when prayer was...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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In the first year of Daryavesh the Mede, Daniel seems to think that the seventy years of exile are complete. Only 52 years have transpired since the...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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Sefer Daniel and Megillat Esther reveal the importance of the "Constitution" in Media and Persia - a status that supersedes even the authority of the king...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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The phenomenon of Anti-Semitism did not exist during the first Beit HaMikdash period. The Babylonian conquest of Yehuda was part of a regional struggle,...
