מדרש אויף דניאל 7:25

And I rested for my prayer and also for my fasting for a day until it was revealed to me that this was the angel and he said to me and asked me something, I said to him, Lord, what will happen after these? The angel said to him, after all this the people of the West increase with large soldiers and they come mixed up and make war with the people of the East in their country and kill them, and the rest flee before them and come to Alexandria, and they will be chased by the people of the West and come there, and there will be a great war, and the people of the East will flee from there and come as far as Egypt and stay And they will take it from a customer and make it a wasteland, to fulfill what was said Egypt will be a wasteland (Joel 4:9). And they passed through the land of the deer and it was consumed by them, and everyone who was captured will not return until the Messiah comes, and when I heard this I wept very much. The angel said to him, Simon! what are you crying for I told him, Abraham's sons Isaac and Jacob will not have an escape in his days. He said to me, the matter is very difficult, if you put meat on the fire, you will not be able to escape from its smell, so Israel is not saved, and anyone who comes into the room and runs away and hides will be saved. He will fall by the sword (ibid. 13:15), and they will pass through the land of the deer and horses, as it is said, "And he came through the lands and washed and passed over" (Daniel 11:30), and they came to the rivers of the valleys and they were in the middle of it, and there will be a great war that all the prophets prophesied about and they will become streams and the waters of the Euphrates to the blood, and the rest will not be able to drink from it, and from there the kingdom of the East will break. And after all these, a bold-faced king will stand and do three and a half years, and at the beginning of his reign, when he stands, he takes the rich and diverts (a missing language, Zephaniah 3:15) from their wealth and kills them, and money will not escape its owners, as it is said that their silver and gold cannot be redeemed (Ezekiel 7 19), and his counsel and his thoughts will not stand on him, and anyone who mentions Shema Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, will be killed, and anyone who says, The God of Abraham will be killed. 7:25), times - they are the times, and religion - is the Torah, as it is said that the fire of religion is for him (Deuteronomy 33), and in his days there will be great trouble for Israel, and everyone who is exiled to the upper Galilee will escape, as it is said that there will be a plague on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem (Joel 3:5) Witness Demati condemns and kills Israel until he reaches Damascus, and when he reaches Damascus, God Almighty gives help and success to Israel, and in his days there will be strife and war in the world, and a city will fight with its friend and a country with a country and a nation against a nation and a nation against a nation, and there will be no peace for those who come and go, as it is said And my troubles came to man, and they went as blind (Zephaniah 1:17). And with the Lord there will be turmoil and trouble upon them for three years, and they will be given in his hand until the end of the three years, as it is said and they will be in his hand [עַד עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן] until Iddan and Iddain and peleg Iddan (Daniel 7:25), Iddan - one year, Iddain - two years, peleg Iddan - half a year, It is found that there are three years from the cancellation of the circumcision and prayer, which is said to have taken place at the time of the removal of the tabernacle and to give a glimpse of heaven for one thousand two hundred and ninety days (ibid. 12:11), and they are three and a half years. And there arose a king who put them to the frost, as it was said, and we gave the shadow of the desert (ibid. 11) and he was in front of you for three months, and after that, the sons of Ishmael made war with the Edomites in the valley of Acre, and immediately the Assyrians came upon them and drove them back, as it was said, "How long shall Assyria rest" (Numbers 24:22), and the fleet of the Hittites (ibid. 24) - these are Edomites who are destined to stand at the end of days, and when they go out as thieves they go out, as it is said if thieves come to you, etc. (Obadiah 1:5), and make war with the sons of Ishmael and kill A great number of them, and a great number of them gathered at streets of Akko, crushed with the iron and shame, and a water tank was brake with his fingers, and rush, rabble in Suswan (castle), and they joined legions with their people from Edom, and they came and made war in the valley of Acre until the horse was soaked up to its thigh in blood, and the children of Israel fled until they came to the valley of Jericho, and there they stood and said to one of his comrades, "Here we are fleeing, and let us rest." We bowed down and changed, and returned and waged another war in the Valley of Megiddo, and the Edomites fled and got into the ships, and a wind arose and brought them to Assyria, and they tormented the Assyrians and crossed the river. And at the end of nine months, the Assyrians went out and the Israelites and the Romans perished, as it was said, "How long shall Assyria be troubled"(Deuteronomy 24:20). And when you see Assyrians coming out and walking in the land of Israel, they are making peace, and Elijah the late comes out and announces peace to them as it was said, and it will be an Assyrian peace because it will come to our land (Micah 5:4), and the sons of Italy want to fight with them and the sons of Ishmael will almost return the kingdom to them, and there are not enough to take out their wives until Assyria captures them, and immediately a voice goes out and proclaims everywhere to the children of Israel: Go out and avenge God's vengeance on Edom, as it is said, I have given my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel (Ezekiel 25:14), and immediately the young men of the Israelites gather and listen and they reign A king from the seed of David reigned over them, and a dispute fell between one and another, and the children of the Land of Israel transgressed against the seed of David to fulfill what was said, and Israel transgressed in the house of David until this day (2 Chronicles 10:19).

"Why do you stand far off, O Lord?" This is what the verse says in Daniel 7:25: "And words against the Most High shall he speak." Rabbi Yosei said, "The wicked do not associate with a person unless they defame him, as it says, 'And words against the Most High shall he speak.'" (Rabbi Yosei is referring to God). Afterwards, the verse continues, "And the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom." These are the people of Israel, as it says in Leviticus 19:2, "You shall be holy." And from where do we know that Israel is called "supreme"? As it says in Deuteronomy 28:1, "The Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth."This can be compared to a man who had a vineyard, and robbers wanted to enter it but were unable to because he had a fence around it. What did they do? They broke down the fence and then entered the vineyard. Similarly, the nations of the world associate with Israel, who is like God's vineyard, as it says in Isaiah 5:7, "For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel." They defame God and then attack Israel, as it says in Daniel 7:25, "And words against the Most High shall he speak." The verse continues, "And the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom." "Saints" refers to those who observe the three pilgrimage festivals, and "kingdom" refers to the Torah, as it says in Deuteronomy 33:2, "From His right hand came a fiery law for them." The verse then concludes, "And they shall possess the kingdom forever." We may always study the Torah, as it says in Daniel 7:25, "And they shall possess it forever, even forever and ever." Why do we subject ourselves to this, that God distances Himself from us? Therefore, the verse ends with the question, "Why do you stand far off, O Lord?"

We are taught in a Baraitha that R. Nathan said: "The following passages bore and penertate to the depth (i.e., no one can fathom their exact meaning) viz., (Habak. 2, 3) For there is yet a vision for the appointed time, and it speaketh of the end, and it will not deceive: Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not be delayed." It is in accordance neither with our Rabbis who lectured about this from (Dan. 7, 25) And they will be given up into his hand until a time, and times and half a time, nor with R. Simlai, who lectured about this from (Ps. 80, 6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure; and also not in accordance with R. Akiba, who used to lecture about this from (Hag. 2, 6) For thus said the Lord … Yet one thing more [will I do], it is but little, when I will cause the heavens and the earth to quake and the sea and the dry land. But we observe that the first kingdom endured seventy years, the second fifty-two, and the kingdom of Bar Kochba, two years and a half. What does, Speaketh of the end, mean? R. Samuel b. Nachmeni said in the name of R. Jonathan: "May despair come upon those who sit and figure the time for the arrival of the Messiah [because they usually err] and when the appointed time comes and the Messiah does not appear, they say that he will not come any more. But every one has to wait for him, as it is said (Ib. ib) Wait for him, because he will surely come. And lest one say, 'We are waiting but He does not wait, therefore it is said (Is. 30, 18) And therefore will the Lord wait to be gracious unto you, and therefore will he exalt himself, to have mercy upon you.' But if He and we are awaiting, who prevents him from coming? The Divine Attribute of Justice prevents it. But if the Divine Attribute of Justice prevents it, then what is the use of our waiting? To receive reward for waiting, as it is said (Ib. ib) Happy are those that wait for him. Abaye said: "There are no less than thirty-six righteous men in every generation who receive the appearance of the Shekhina, as it is said (Ib.) Happy are those that wait for him (Lo); the word Lo in numerical value amounts to thirty-six." Is this so? Did not Raba say that the first row [of righteous men] in front of the Omnipotent, contains eighteen thousand parsas, as it is said (Ezek. 48, 35) All round it shall be eighteen thousand rods? This presents no difficulty. The former speaks of those who contemplated [Deity] through a lucid speculum, aud the latter speaks of those who contemplated [Deity] through a dim speculum. But are there, indeed, so many [righteous]? Did not R. Simon b. Jochai say: "I see that those who enjoy the Divine presence in the future world are very few. If they are a thousand, I and my son are included, etc., and if they are only two, they are I and my son?" This presents no difficulty. The former speaks of those who enter after getting permission, and the latter speaks of those who enter without permission.