Musar para sa Daniel 12:3

It is upon them that the light of HaShem, blessed is He, will shine, each according to his level in the knowledge of Torah and the fulfillment of its mitzvot. As stated in Tana D’Bei Eliyahu, chapter one, “How will the light of Torah scholars and the righteous be,” and then lists several levels. There are those whose face will be given to shine like small stars and those who will shine like large stars (as scripture states,²⁷Daniel 12:3 “Those who teach righteousness to the multitudes will shine like the stars for ever and ever”), there are those who will be given to shine like the moon at the beginning of the month, those who will shine like the moon on fifth of the month, and those who will be like the fifteenth of the month. There will be those who will shine like the sun in the first hour of the day, those who will be like the third hour of the day, and those who will shine like noon, at the sixth hour of the day.” All this is hinted in the verse,²⁸Judges 5:31 “Those who love Him will be like the rising of the sun in its full strength.”

It teaches us that intellectually alert people who conduct themselves with the proper degree of discretion and caution will assure themselves of the blessing in Daniel 12,3: "The wise will shine like the radiance of the firmament, and those who make the many righteous, like the stars, forever and ever."

Eicha Rabbah interprets that in a verse in Kings II 25,9 in which Nevuzaradon is described as destroying Jerusalem and "the great house," "the great house" refers to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. Since Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai lived over 600 years later than Nevuzaradan, it is clear that the Midrash views the person of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai in a sense similar to what Rabban Gamliel told us. The Talmud is replete with similar interpretations.