Midrash su Daniele 8:13

[BEHOLD, THE HUMAN]. This text is related (to Dan. 8:13): THEN I HEARD A HOLY ONE SPEAKING; AND ANOTHER HOLY ONE SAID TO THAT CERTAIN ONE WHO SPOKE.⁶¹Gen. R. 21:1. Who was THAT CERTAIN ONE? R. Johanan said: This was Michael because he stands to the fore. R. Hanina said: This was Gabriel, who was speaking concerning Israel, since he was saying (ibid., cont.): HOW LONG WILL THE VISION CONCERNING THE REGULAR OFFERING BE? How long will prophecy be gone from Israel? (Ibid., cont.:) AND THAT WHICH IS DESOLATE THROUGH TRANSGRESSION? This is the Temple, which became desolate through our sins. (Ibid., cont.:) TO GIVE OVER BOTH A SANCTUARY. A SANCTUARY can only be Israel, as stated (in Jer. 2:3): ISRAEL IS THE LORD'S SANCTUARY. (Dan. 8:13, cont.:) AND THE HOST TO BE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT. How long are they to be trampled under the foot of the nations of the world? (Dan. 8:14:) AND HE SAID TO ME: [UNTIL] EVENING < IS > MORNING.⁶²This translation is made possible by taking the words out of context. A full rendering of the clause would read, FOR 2,300 EVENING/MORNINGS. How long will the evil decrees < remain in force >? Until Israel's evening becomes morning. At that time (according to vs. 14, cont.) THE SANCTUARY SHALL BE VINDICATED.

Another interpretation (of Dan. 8:13): AND I HEARD A HOLY ONE SPEAKING….⁶³See Gen. R. 21:1. He said to him: For whom are all the evil decrees? He said to him: For the first Adam. (Ibid., cont.:) HOW LONG WILL < WHAT WAS SEEN IN > THE VISION LAST CONCERNING THE REGULAR OFFERING AND THE TRANSGRESSION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION? Are you having him turn back from the decrees? It is so written concerning him (in Gen. 3:19): FOR DUST YOU ARE AND UNTO DUST YOU SHALL TURN BACK. (Dan. 8:13, cont.:) TO GIVE OVER BOTH THE SANCTUARY AND THE HOST TO BE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT. These are the children of the first Adam, over whom death was decreed. (Dan. 8:14:) AND HE SAID TO ME: UNTIL EVENING IS MORNING: Until the morning of the world to come arrives. And, when death and the evil decrees were decreed over him, the Holy One began mourning (in Gen. 3:22): BEHOLD, THE HUMAN.