NACH 49 – Daniel – Lesson 1 – Hitbodedut Can Save Your Life – The Four Worlds – Statue with Feet of Clay

Daniel – Hitbodedut Can Save Your Life – The Four Worlds – Statue with Feet of Clay – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream about a statue with feet of clay. Recorded on 1975-05-05.

• 00:00 Historical background of Sefer Daniel.
• 09:47 Daniel, Mishael, Chananiah, and Azariah are renamed Belshezzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
• 12:02 Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.
• 18:45 The hitbodedut (personal prayer) of Daniel. How and why hitbodedut can save your life.
• 27:38 The elements of hitbodedut – gratitude, request, praise.
• 28:27 Power over the rain and all other weather elements are reserved by HaShem Himself.
• 29:14 The Four Worlds; the greatest perceivable light of HaShem is in Keser.
• 31:46 Daniel offers to reveal the king’s dream.
• 35:54 Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream: statue with feet of clay and head of gold (Babylonian empire), chest and arms of silver (Greek Empire), hips of bronze (Greek Empire), legs of iron (Roman Empire). (Daniel 2:32-35).

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.