The Sweet Smell of Purim

I remember opening a book quite recently and the aroma of the pages instantly transported me back to my days in kindergarten. Of the five human senses, the sense of smell is the most evocative and the most intangible. There's something about fragrance which is above the other senses, more refined, more abstract. The Zoesh explains that when describing the forbidden fruit, the Torah says Eve saw it was good. She saw it was good. The fruit was good for eating. But the sense of smell, the Torah never mentions that it had a pleasant fragrance. The sense of smell was never an accessory to that sin. And thus, the sense of smell was never damaged. The sense of fragrance that we have today is as strong, as evocative, and untainted as it was then in the beginning. When we eat a fruit for the first time in its season, we make a blessing called Shehonu. We thank Hashem for bringing us once again to a time where we can enjoy the taste of that particular fruit. However, we don't make a shehu when we reexperience smell because smell is something that the soul enjoys, not the body. The sense of smell was never diminished by the sin of Adam. It exists as the soul does above time. Smell does not undergo cyclical renewal. It remains in its pristine spiritual state. Shakonu marks renewal after absence, but fragrance never truly leaves us. So there's no return to mandate a blessing. All the festivals of the Jewish calendar are named after redemption, after salvation. For example, Pesak. The word Pesak means to skip over. Hashem passed over the houses of the Jewish people in Egypt. And the firstborn of the Jewish people was saved from death. Sukkot celebrates miracles and salvation. The suka in the desert gave us supernatural protection from the elements. Answ which literally means weeks commemorates the journey of anticipation to Sinai and the giving of the Torah the ultimate freedom. Purim is different. Purim the word purim comes from the Hebrew word poor which means a lot. Hmon hmon cast lots to divine the most propitious time to eradicate the Jewish people. And that lot fell on the month of Adar, the month in which Moshe Rabenu, Moses died. So why do we name the festival of Purim after the attempted genocide of the Jewish people? Why is that of all names Purim the name of this festival? There's a mystical concept that the 12 months of the Jewish year correspond to 12 parts of the head. Tish represents the skull. Maheshan and Kislave are the two ears. are the eyes and Ada, the month of Purim, represents the nose, the sense of smell. Hmon made a mistake when he chose the month of Ada. He didn't realize that Ada represented the hidden power of the sense of smell, which was never compromised by the sin of Adam and Kava. That pristine power of Ada protected the Jewish people from his genocidal plans. The Gomorrah continues and Morai and where do we see Morai hinted in the Torah and it says in the words more draw pure m the pure mr that was used in the anointing of the Cohen godle. Now the tarum translates morra as morakia moradakia more deai morai is more is the sweet fragrance that was never compromised. and Esther. Esther is also called Hadasa, the myrtle with its beautiful scent. Hmon represents ammonic's worldview of randomness, chance, blind fate, but the sense of smell perceives what the eye cannot see. It detects essence beneath the surface. The prophet Yeshua Isaiah says of the Moshiach, the Messiah will be able to sense by the sense of smell who is righteous and who is not. And that is why Purim is named after the poor, the lottery. Because what appears random carries the aroma of redemption.