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Daniel’s Prophecy 10

שו”תCategory: generalDaniel’s Prophecy 10
asked 2 weeks ago

Hello Rabbi, I came across a verse in Daniel 12 and an interesting interpretation occurred to me. The chapter asks when the end will be, etc., and in these verses there is a kind of hint: “And from the time of the perpetual desolation, and the abomination of desolation, a thousand and ninety days.” (verse 11)
From the date of the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE, according to the study) to the accepted date for the construction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, exactly this number of years passed. In terms of the historical and syntactic context, does the interpretation that attributes the prophecy to these events have a place? I am aware that the traditional interpretation speaks of the “desolation of desolation” as an event that occurred adjacent to the “time of the removal of the perpetual statutes” and not as an event that occurred at the end of the period, but it seems that there is an opening here for a new interpretation.
“Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days” (verse 12)
By the way, if we add the 1335 mentioned in the next verse, we arrive at 2040 (again, be aware that the traditional interpretation refers to this as an additional 45 years and not as a separate minyan).
My question is whether such an interpretation makes sense in terms of the linguistic and historical context.
Or will we wait 15 years to find out 😉


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מיכי Staff answered 2 weeks ago
I don’t deal with biblical interpretation. It doesn’t interest me, and I don’t think anything can be learned from it.

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