Pemikiran Yahudi Daniel 10:20: Derashot HaRan

The explanation of the matter is that when the Blessed One governs them directly, though their contravening His word results in punitive evil, there is both severity and attenuation in this. Severity, in their being subject to punishment so great that it could annihilate them, as indicated in "lest I destroy you on the way." Attenuation, in that if the Blessed One desired to forgive their sins they would be as disposed to receive His effluences and His ordinance as at first. For the effluences which proceed directly from the L-rd with nothing intervening do not depend upon the predisposition of the recipients, as I have written. But the Blessed One, in His compassion upon Israel and in His concern lest their punishment result in their annihilation, instructed them to abide by the ordinance of the angel, saying "Take heed of him…" And this is not by way of command and exhortation; but, for example, if a prophet would receive a prophecy through the agency of this angel that they should first do battle with the Emorites, they should not transgress his word by warring with the Hittites and Perizites, for this would result in evil with no hope of forgiveness. For the effluences proceeding from distinct, limited agencies cannot be changed, unlike those acts which are not mediated by such agencies. Therefore, though [under the ordinance of the angel] they were assured against punitive annihilation, they had to be extremely heedful of the evil proceeding not from punishment but from the undermining of the angel's governance and ordinance, an evil which could not be reversed. If, for example, the angel's governance at that time were limited to a particular land, how could they expect to be benefited by him if they went to a different land? This would be absolutely impossible. And there is no doubt that angels are limited to particular spheres of governance, and only in particular matters, as we find, viz. (Daniel 10:20): "the guardian angel of Greece" and "the guardian angel of Persia." And our sages state (Pesachim 118a): "When Nebuchadnezzar cast Chananiah, Mishael, and Azaryah into the fiery furnace, Yorkmi, the angel of hail, arose before the Holy One Blessed be He and said: 'Let me go and cool off the furnace,' at which Gabriel arose before the Holy One Blessed be He and said: 'The honor of the Holy One Blessed be He is not best served thereby. But let me, the angel of fire, go and cool it from the inside and heat it from the outside, so that there be a miracle within a miracle.'" It is thus indicated that in the absence of miraculous intervention Yorkmi has power only to cool and Gabriel only to heat, and the same principle applies in all such cases. Therefore, if one is under the ordinance of an angel's effluence, if he disrupts the reception of that effluence, he cannot hope for correction. This is the intent of "for he will not forgive your sins."