Adar - Transformational Growth - R Chaim Eisenstein

jewish tradition gives great significance to the timing of the calendar for example the month of ave which is in the summer time is unfortunately a time of pain and tragedy in fact both of our bhatmik dash and our temples were destroyed in ave on the same day ontario incidentally world war two one which was the precursor to world war ii also world war one began on yoshibov and so for great jewish thinkers the power of a month impacts us today the month of ador is characterized of course by the holiday of purim which is described so powerfully and sung in many jewish homes and bhattai mid-russian there's a moment where things are transformed they're changed all of haman's plans were turned on his head the jewish people went miraculously and quickly from pain for potential tragedy to salvation le argodell to a great light what is [Music] the phenomenon that leads to venaphor who that's relevant to our own personal lives to answer that question we need to go to the month prior to other the month of [Music] the magazine of cognitives in his safer havoc israel points out that the great kabbalistic work of the zoar refers to shvat in almost contradictory ways on the one hand shvat is referred to as a time of pain and suffering it's put into the category in one place of the tsar like tish above on the other hand shaft is also referred to as a time of redemption like the period of pesach davos israel writes that you need to divide shvat into two there is shivat which is built for salvation and then there is shabbat that also undergoes a destructive phenomenon of a rabbi shlita describes that that destructive phenomenon is consistent with the celebration of tu b'shvat tu bhishvat is about rejoicing with the new buds of the tree and the tree represents man man's growth and of course for a treat to grow there needs to be something destructive that you need to take two steps back before growth the seed deteriorates that is what the zoar is referring to he's not referring to destruction but he's referring to a process of decay a process of nephilim the apostle commissioner says false seven times and rafner writes in a letter to a student that the process of falling is what creates growth is the heightened the dramatized phenomenon of the moment to which we understand that growth comes through pain and suffering in the to the extent that growth requires a man and a woman to fall and pick themselves up then we're ready to reach the next step the culmination of the year the culmination of jewish destiny and that is that there is nothing that's bad in this world that everything that per seems to be bad the haman's of the world could really be leading to redemption pain could be a process to personal redemption and national challenges and worldly challenges could be turned into gula could be turned into salvation may we take the month of adar and take all those challenges that are part of the human process that in shavat we learned that slowly those seeds could rot and turn into something extremely fruitful in other we know that that could happen in a moment's time may we merit to see that salvation in a moment both in our personal lives and in the history of our people and humanity