Purim: Diamonds on the Megillah from Rav Ovadia Yosef

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay as we prepare for well M it come came time for the turn of Esther hamala she wasn't yet a Mala destined to be the Mal interesting the V points out that by All the Other Women by all the other ladies they were clamoring they were jumping they were they they wanted to win the contest they wanted the rights to live with a but when it came to Esther's turn [Music] she had no interest in going she was slepping along Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her by the way the say that there's a certain charm that Esther has with every Jew even if we're not familiar with other Pim but theim and Esther are so beloved by every Jew are so dear to us so Charming in our eyes has a certain and all who learn her well but the gamar says this means something uh else entirely says the rezar says we see from here that for each and everyone she appeared like a member of their own people so a Japanese man saw her she Japanese she looked Japanese a Russian she looked Russian French she looked French every nationality thought she was one of theirs obviously it's a miracle aushi you can't have aushi and a and an American think that she's one of theirs no she was asazi everything you want question is this was an obvious Miracle why the re make this miracle I could understand that Esther should find favor in the eyes of why would hasem make her find favor in the eyes of anybody body who looked at her for what reason well r y in his commentary on the is in he uh brings down this question this is a question of and he brings the answer of the saer and says we know about's party why was Vash hung the answer is she wasn't she was hanged you don't a person is notash was hanged why was why why was she killed the answer is because a fight broke out the Japanese said the Japanese ladies are the they're the most beautiful and the Italian said Italian ladies they're the most beautiful and the African-Americans said no it's one of ours and said really the CLE that I use she's the most beautiful you want to see her and they said yeah provided that you meet our conditions and aashi had to come out aruma and that's why she was killed now that Esther is going to be the queen maybe another fight will break out the Japanese will say the Japanese women are more people and the Persians the Persian so in order to avoid such a situation maybe a is going say my wife's the most beautiful and they're going to tell them really let's try and see again like we saw the first time so this way Hashem made Esther beautiful in the eyes of anyone who saw her so nobody could dispute and we wouldn't have a situation like what happened with vashi where people are going to claim what do you mean one of ours is more beautiful and the Italians say why didn't you pick an Italian wife because all the Italians thought they did she did pick an Italian wife that's the reason for the miracle so that what happened with vashi will not happen again with Esther however Samer says also a brilliant answer to this question why did Hashem make this miracle that Esther should look like the nationality of every nation some Ser has the following question hamon sees that the new Queen is Esther he hates Jews why didn't he ever suspect that Esther was a Jew why didn't hamon ever guard himself from Esther why didn't that happen after all what do you what do you think he the king found her in Park In The House of the god and she's not a Jew very good she has no father or mother but the answer is H thought she was thought she why cuz hasem made a miracle that everybody thought she was one of their own a member of their nationality she she looked right look at number four cuz he thought she would definitely go along with his plan let's talk a little bit about one of my favorite characters in Milla she calls who's opinion is he was cut off from his greatness what greatness I always understood he used to be the minister of and he lost the job he went down he wasn't powerful anymore as May who cares the the mill the holy Milla which every word of the m was written to enhance the miracle of P why is the why would the Miga feel necessary to call Danel I I think Danielle is a nice name I know right I think it's a good so why would you just call him Danielle why why call because he lost his who cares says beautiful what was the greatness of Daniel that he served the greatness of Daniel what was the Godless of Daniel thei tells us that he risked his life to davor that he risked his life to Davin three times a day even though it was only Daniel risked his life he was thrown into the lion's den to DAV but in those three days when all of clo were daving and crying out to Hashem big deal Daniel Every Jew is doing it so his stature went went down his statue went down because the M that Danel had for through the PM story every Jew reached that MGA of of that's the deeper meaning of that he was cut off from his greatness why because used to be relative to CL he was great and now CL elevated themselves and they for okay look at number seven is the greatness of Daniel to the believing Jews because he gave himself over for death three times a day be thrown into a lions then but now that all the people aroused themselves for Chua and after they said that in fact not Daniel wasn't the only one who kept but for all the D and they fasted three days and they learned Tyra so now all of clo reached the madrea of the Godless of Daniel and his Gula was okay let's move on so Esther comes to the king and uh Esther says to to Mori can't go having 30 days Let Me Wait until I'm [Music] called you got to go now so she risks her life and she comes to the the king so like with that niggan you expect her to get down on her hands and knees and beg save my people what does she say you know what she begs for I'm making a party later come to my party later and tomorrow I'll tell you what I want is she nuts here she gets an on her hands and knees sh and what's the sh we're going to make a party and I'm not going to tell you I'm going to tell you tomorrow why is she pushing it off here she's risking her life if you risk your life cuz you're afraid that you haven't been given permission to have audience with the kid King if you go in then just say what you want and and parake why is she prolonging the situ the last thing you would want to do is risk your life go to the king and say I'll let you know tomorrow what's the difference between oh the answer is you have to know what the difference between a is and what is very good topic but not today says Ezra the reason why Esther is pushing off the party and this answers another very important question Miga if I ask somebody what's the turning point of yeah and the King can't sleep and they read him the book of Chronicles and he didn't reward Mori and hon just came in at that time and what happened what happened and what happened what happened was um you ride through the street whoa what's going on everything is if you think about it this has nothing to do with the perm story because Mor had one good day and ham had one bad day so what immediately after that Mor was going to be hanged and hamon was going to be the annihilator so the fact that Mor had a day in the Sun and ham had a bad day big deal has nothing to do with ultimately what saved us is Esther begged the king to save us but the fact that morai was led through the streets nothing to do with anything says the Ezra the reason why Esther asked the king to come to the party tomorrow why tomorrow what's tomorrow right don't say tomorrow I'll never push things off why you think the answer is she knew the Jews fasted 3 days she's waiting new sh was anything p in sh did we accomplish anything she was looking for a Simmon she didn't see anything change after the 3-day fast she goes to the king but but it doesn't seem that sham is recognizing the accomplishment of clais yet so he says you know what let's do this tomorrow maybe maybe tomorrow will come and tomorrow will be a better time but the first day she she didn't think it would be an opportune time look at number n the reason why she didn't want to speak on the first day she did not see any sign that God renewed when she saw it on the second day when on the second day she saw m walking through the streets said you know what maybe epis something was was P from from the ESS of Cl in other words she was waiting to see that Simon she's waiting to see that Sim second second party or second day party second day party by the way just to go back to H for a minute we know in Hebrew the and the why is he called cut off so call him why call him cuz that R sometimes they can't uh they don't reframe from daring between a and a and especially in shushan which was one of the Persian cities Persians have a hard time pronouncing the he and the by the way I once saw a sign you know we live in a very strong Community they were inviting people to come do CH h y par and Persians they don't know how to pronounce the and the they interchange it so that's why in the M even though his name is because but you know those Persians we give we give them slack when it comes to the hand that's what says if we be asazi said it that's okay say h made a tree 50 tall why 50 tall well he wanted everyone to see Mor hanging but ultimately say on the tree that he prepared for him he was really preparing it for himself so that means let's try to think hon Was preparing a 50 amama tree for himself why would h need to hang on a 50o tree so that you need to distance a from a city 50 so since H was really making the tree for himself and he's he's a AA he ended up making a tree 50 so they were able to okay let's move on to another interesting point on that day he gave him H's house the enemy of the Jews I have a question how could Esther Mor live in H's house three times in the Milla it says they didn't take the spoils because it belong to you know right you're know how to you're know how to take the possessions of amalik how could take's house imminent domain how do you take the possession of am and they didn't take anything else from not the 500 people they killed in Shir not the 300 people they killed in shushan they didn't take any of them Alik in possession except for the house of ham belongs to it took what's going on here he asked since CL was commanded to wipe out the memory of why because we don't want somebody to say oh this G belonged to an Amal would remind people of the memory of Amal so how could they take the Bas H say and he says he found the same idea in the of on the of you don't have that not sure if how often you learn that he says the following that anybody who killed by The King The King owns his per possessions that means after killed ham who owns Ham's house and he gave it to Esther so up but it's still h no says it's analogous to the following you know we were told don't distress May right we weren't allowed to um take their land we weren't allowed to take their possessions cuz it belonged to the bite But ultimately we did take it so the answer is how came conquered when conquered then they purify that land that we could take it from them so once fought them and conquer them then returned to conquer the land of so it comes out that the was so too the house of hon was purified by let's take a look in number shom by the way I'll ask you uh s in the Zar it says truth and peace will Embrace which by the way was the signature of first Ms and then sh and in this P it says shs the other way around that's just for you to think about homework then the next says does anybody know what we learn out from the B good say that we learn out that not only do you lay the excuse me by the way areas in the it's 15 oh so so how do we know you can L it on I have a for you and this is the Ra's in the very beginning of you know in CL we like to keep uniformity that's why either you a you not Min but it's not right to have people wearing together people not wearing phone it's actually according to many what is it called don't actually we learned three things from the you can't cut yourself for a maze you can't make a how in the world could they establish p five different days some people when do you keep P I keep it on the 12 when do you keep I keep it on the 15 when do you the 14 I mean what this like flies in the face of the whole concept of keeping uniformity and comes to him we don't care some people do you do it this way I do it that way why were they not afraid of when it comes to Pur well says very beautiful thought the first asked the question it says and the says like this when is there an right if um if one's daughter Falls to them in you don't do IAM obviously on your daughter what about if your brother had two wives your daughter and another co-wife not only do you not do yam to the wife excuse me not only do you not do I to your daughter you don't do y to the co-wife either that's the opinion of we learned that from however B says in fact now he's a so that means that's an example of would say her child is a and um would say about she's uh she's so that's what this gu do but in this situation by Milla everybody would agree villagers all need to Le it read it earlier and the on the 15th and on the 14th what's theud of the in other words when do we apply to when do we not we apply to do if I say you're wrong and you say I'm wrong if I say you should not be wearing Fain and you say I should be wearing Fain then we might talk about it and we might punch each other in the face but if I agree that you're a a wall City dweller and you need to L it on the 15th and I'm a open City I need to L on 14 you're a villager and you need then there not going to come to why because every we all agree say the concept of is avoiding we don't want um there to be dispute and and there be two tus this is the meaning of the P look back at number [Music] shom this is a topic that's not going to call they'll be Shalom to everyone everyone's going to do the correct once that's true then we could establish many many different times for no once it's sh once everybody will be peaceful about this and this is the accurate that will enable to circumvent and establish ham tell you one last thing on the m we'll end off with aakha related to the gar [Music] learning the gar says that re wanted to be and the says re want to no it's talking about Tish that fell out on chabas and was pushed off the Sun what Reby wants to do is once you're pushing it off just get rid of it that year sounds good ask Tois how could rebby do that who made up earlier Court a later Court cannot abolish the ruling of an earlier Court unless they're greater in wisdom and in number so how could Reby have tried to he's not greater than the earlier courts says not a big deal you know why he didn't want to be what happened was like this what happened was rebi agreed with said that had he been there he would have made Tish on the 10th and not the 9th because most of the just burnt down on the tent so what rebi wanted to do is he didn't really want to uproot Tish he really just wanted to push it off a day and tampering by pushing it off a day is not considered a violation of aim which is a big problem that mean is saying that a later Court cannot abolish the ruling of an earlier Court they could but they can maneuver it says who established the 11th 12th and 13th it had to have been the original an because if it was by a later Court How could a later Court the what an earlier Court decided so how could a later Court um tamper with the ruling of an earlier Court wait a second said that's only a problem when you uproot it entirely but here they're not uprooting the 14th and the 15th they're advancing it to 11 12 and 13 and to says that to merely Advance or to change the date that a later card could do even if they're not greater so let you think about that over shabas I wish everyone shab and 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