Private User Just came across an article relating a prophecy by the Ibn Yachya which can be found in the book of Daniel (8:14) in the Orim Gedolim edition of Mikraot Gedolot. Note, scholars of the Ibn Yachya’s stature, Yosef Karo personally handled his burial, did not utter words lightly.
He writes: “The pekida [a glimpse of how the final Redemption will unfold, based on God's assessment of whether a generation merits it] in the days of King Koresh [on whose orders the Second Temple was built] was incomplete, and it was in accordance with their not being ready to accept it.
[It was incomplete] because the gedolim [the elite, the leaders] did not want to leave the exile. Only the reikim [those devoid of Torah, the uneducated, the uncommitted] went up with Ezra to Jerusalem.” (Only 42,360 Jews followed Ezra back to Eretz Jerusalem according to Nehemiah 7:66.). Source: http://www.jewishpress.com/tag/ibn-yachya/
