Nach b'Iyun: Daniel 6.2-14

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

on base. So became the king of when he was 62 years old. So he um it was had a plan. He put upon this which are the local governors 120 will be in his office all his kingdom and the M is going to say how kingdom and the M is going to say how this is a forerunner of is 127 um governors above them there were three um over officials overseers And one of them was was the the the um the uh the the the the the the um the uh the the the would have to give reports to these three overseers. So there shouldn't be any damage to the king. So says divide up 120 portions. That's interesting. You learn don't don't think about that. So the maybe they were besides 120 that set in place. Okay. I don't think that's necessarily, but it's cute. Okay, so the um so he put upon these these um upon these um the way he puts it is that were on on top of them. Uh top of them. Uh the no never mind were the heads of of these 120 countries, right? They were the governors to be in charge of the matters for the king of the kingdom as representative of the king. But he says that it's not he says it's not a regular governor. There were other governors who were the um the you know the word pa in English is pasha. Did you know that? Did you ever hear the word pasha? Pasha is what

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1. 0:00on base. So became the king of when he was 62 years old. So he um…
2. 2:33ever hear the word pasha? Pasha is what we call Persian uh uh in Arab uh…
3. 5:38he's the person who orchestrates he's above and beyond the the on account he had a…
4. 8:53so he says there's two two things they they want they said this is classic m…
5. 11:59and other leaders and even the governors all got together and took an isatu means they…
6. 15:14person who asks. Such a person who doesn't acknowledge the king that is being all powerful…
7. 17:59besides? So it seems like an outlandish plot and an unrealistic plot. It sounds basically this…
8. 21:08>> But uh but uh in any event, but uh >> those carpets are never clean.…
9. 24:18the the the law of the king was not to violate the religion and to prevent…
10. 27:28assumed that they're not going to be a problem okay so the uh evidently this they…

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