פירוש על מגילה 22:7
Rashi on Megillah
What is it: The calculation of Balshazzar and his mistake.
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Rashi on Megillah
After the completion for Babylonia: As he reasoned - for the kingdom of Babylonia - from the day that Babylonia assumed [its] reign. And that is [when] Nebuchadnezzar took the reign from Esarhaddon, the king of Assyria
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Rashi on Megillah
He calculated: [Meaning,] Balshazzar: Forty-five of Nebuchadnezzar and twenty-three of Evil-merodach.
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Rashi on Megillah
And two of his: As we find that Balshazzar reigned three years. As it is written in the book of Daniel (8:1), "In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, etc."
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