Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Daniel 12:8

The Ibn Ezra
Of the major classic commentators to Sefer Daniel, Ibn Ezra is one of the few who do not try to calculate the arrival date of the Mashi’ach. Ibn Ezra (to Daniel 8:25) notes that the numbers indicating Mashi’ach’s arrival date are obscure to the point of being incomprehensible to human beings. Ibn Ezra notes that Daniel states (8:27) that he finds these dates incomprehensible. Moreover, he notes that Daniel 12:8 states that these numbers are “inaccessible and sealed”. Only when Mashi’ach arrives will our wise men be able, in retrospect, to decipher the meanings of these numbers¹¹⁴This idea brings to mind Shemot 33:23 where Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu that he can perceive Hashem only from the back but not from the front..

Before we try to explain why the Mefarshim make these calculations, let us review the basics of the respective views. Rashi and Abarbanel focus on the phrase “Idan, Idanin, UFelag Idan” of Daniel Perek 7 Pasuk 25. This phrase expresses the time we must wait until the final redemption. Rashi understands this phrase to mean one and a half eras after the cessation of bringing the Korban Tamid in the second Beit HaMikdash, which occurred in 64 C.E. (based on Daniel 12:8-13).

It is also possible to explain these verses as follows: the words הלא הוא כמוס עמדי, refer to the word אחריתם, “their end” in verse 29, i.e. the eventual end of Israel’s enemies has been a carefully preserved storage in the hands of the Lord. We find a similar construction in Daniel who had asked; (Daniel 12,8) מה אחרית אלה, “what is going to be the end of these (dire predictions)?” G’d had answered him that the timing of the redemption, and therefore the timing of the retribution against the enemies of our people, was a well guarded secret with Him until the time when it would occur (Daniel 12,9). In fact, this would occur at a time which seems most unlikely at the time, a time when these nations appear to rule the world.