About the flying scroll of Zechariah

Hi, I did an artwork many years ago. It was 600 sequential ink wash drawings that was filmed as an animation. It was at the Kosel. A woman emerges from the wall ( representing Bas Tzion) and reaches her hand to pick up a fallen tzetel , a paper folded up. She unfolds it and reads it. Then she folds it again and inserts it into a crack between the stones. She wedges it in twisting it like a key which activates a response. A storm begins with rain and a storm wind character who flys by, dislodging all the notes from the cracks. The narrative continues with the impression that prayers were answered as the next wind character is gentle and flys up over the wall to give full view of the Bais Hamikdash . It flies inside and weaves it's way through the columns passing by the Leviim playing instruments on the steps. The video ends with a man doing Hagba , lifting a Torah scroll and turning it this way and that. It takes flight going off in the distance and turns about a few times, before returning to a close up of a posuk that's actually from a Posuk in Zechariah - Roni VeSimchi I was troubled that one wouldn't expect a posuk from Zechariah if it's a Sefer Torah that took flight. And then I came across a reference in Tanya to the flying scroll of Zechariah. So here is my question . All I could find on Google was from non Jewish sources. What is the story and meaning of this flying scroll of Zechariah ? I went a bit faint after coming across the reference not having ever heard of it, yet drawing it. Last week I recorded a pianist who played an improvistation that was added to video. We are both wanting to know about this flying scroll. Thanks in advance for your time. Kesiva Vechasima Tova Leshana Tova Umesuka!!!!

Shalom!

Thank you for your question.

Here is an article written by my friend Rabbi Jack Abramowitz on the topic:

Zechariah looked up and he saw a flying scroll (or perhaps a folded scroll). The angel asked what he saw and Zechariah replied a flying (folded) scroll twenty cubits by ten cubits. (If the word "afah" means folded, then unfolded it would measure twenty cubits by twenty cubits.) The angel told him that this represents the curse that would come upon those who steal and those who swear falsely. Those who did so prior to this time have already paid for their sins through the destruction and exile. This curse will be the punishment of thieves and those who swear falsely from this point forward. It will come into their homes and destroy not only them but their very houses.

The angel told Zechariah to look and see what was coming. Zechariah saw an ephah (a type of measure) coming forward. The angel told him that this represents the punishments of those who look over the land to see what they could obtain though robbery and oppression. Next, Zechariah saw a weight of lead being lifted. There was a woman sitting in the ephah and the angel told him that this women represents the personification of Risha, Evil. The angel put her in the ephah and put the lead weight in her mouth. Next, Zechariah saw two women (angels?) coming forward with wings like those of a stork. (The Radak says these women represent the tribes of Judah and Benjamin in exile.) The women took the ephah and flew with it to the land of Shinar where they were to place it on a base. (Shinar is Babylonia and Rashi says that the base is the population of Jews that were exiled there. After the destruction of the second Temple, it was the scholars of the exile who would write the more authoritative Babylonian Talmud.) In any event, this prophecy is very difficult to decipher.

I hope this helps!