Behind The Scenes Of Megillat Esther

[Music] now when it comes to pulling mcgillato still um I think that one of the um one of the most important lessons to learn you know from egilater is that this is very much a uh A Tale Of Our Lives our modern lives today you know where you see certain things and certain people um in the world today and you when you think about making up the stairs like wow there's really nothing new Under the Sun there's really nothing new Under the Sun you know the uh one of the questions asked is uh how come hashem's name is not mentioned a single time initial respond that hashem's name is mentioned in ital in the megila but not as hashem's name but rather any time it's referring to the word Melech anytime the word Melech King it's really referring to akados meaning that Hashem is it's hidden it's hidden in the megilate Estelle but nonetheless let me get out the steel is a uh part of the Tanakh it's part of the Tawas so much so that once the mashiach comes the uh the the prophets and the writings uh will uh you know will not uh be valid and the uh will still be read every year will still be valid what does that mean obviously we know that every word in attallah including is always valid so what does that actually mean what it means is that if let's say there was a circumstance where at the time of mashiach we would have to pick either megata steel or the writings and the prophets writings takes precedence takes precedence of course uh you know Miguel conster is going to be read every single year uh but including after the time of mashiach because it'll always be relevant even at that time even at the time of mashiach uh you know whereas the prophecies about the days of mashiach are not going to be as relevant anymore of course there's always going to be things to learn but the point being is that's what the shrine refer so why is so relevant that's that's really the uh the big question this week we had a couple of shooting where uh you know we had our uh Jewish Cafe shoe based on the writings of the khazonish and we had our Equity based on the writings and one of the uh things that we see is that the more and more says there's nothing new Under the Sun he's also referring to the fact that whatever writings whatever writings you see the hakamim right it's not necessarily that they're bringing something new but rather something that already exists just in a different way so you see that all of the writings what is the hazonish Arts of Wasserman that is teaching you always seated it all connects it all connects in the writings of the khazonish we saw this week that the khazonis is trying to tell us that it's very important for a person to in their process of doing chuva to to get to the point of working on their character traits to the extent of feeling discussed towards undue frivolity and passing pleasures so this is really interesting that not only he says this but he says it this week that we're reading it as you obviously see everything is designing everything at a precise time because what is what does this have to do with magilato still you see that the main reason that the megilato still is even something that we read and why it's relevant to today is because of how the whole story starts gilato still starts is King he rules all over the world he uh as a rabifi mentioned in his uh commentary on uh says that uh is from the descendant of ham and he is from Kush he was a black man that came from Kush came from Africa and uh uh and Haman came from hodu came from India and thereby we uh we uh see that's why it says that King Hood was from uh from uh India and turkush from the King Hood and the uh Power of Haman all the way to uh some can say that that's because at some point in the uh you know in the uh Hotel Shah in the whole megilate that after nine years after the story began when Haman was given the position of power is saying actually that Haman became more powerful than uh than uh himself in fact says that hashem's name is hidden uh so uh deeply during that time uh that uh because uh that Hashem in essence made Haman more powerful than him obviously there's nothing more powerful than a kadoshburg and I've heard this from that it's what happened here is that himself so much that the Jews were in such trouble that it seemed as if Haman can do whatever he wants say whatever he wants and that would be so that would be so uh and of course like those people who had mercy on us like he uh always had from the uh from the beginning of creation and saved us and before it was too late but nonetheless that wasn't before we did Serious chuva and changed the decree now how did this all start this all started when am Israel could not control their desires cannot control their desire to be like the green could not control their desire to enjoy some good food cannot control their uh their physical uh addictions and uh ended up going to the feast ended up going to the feast by Ross now here we see that says that this this Feast is very much what he's talking about that we need to do true love for that's what we ditch you up for and pull him and he says if you want to do chuva you have to fix your desires if you are an addict to any one particular uh uh physical uh thing in the world or another whether it's money or it's a women men it's a uh food otherwise this is one of the things you have to do to love for very seriously because this is what got us in trouble in the first place during pulling to the uh you know and you see this today many times uh people that uh you know are fall intents and purposes kosher Jews Orthodox Jews they keep Shabbat they keep kasoot they keep this they keep that and then you see them showing up as a uh or advocating or promoting or starting well what are we doing oh we're gonna have an exotic kosher food uh event we're gonna eat food from such and such country we're gonna eat this we're gonna eat that and many times these people uh find different types of exotic food that's uh you know that that is kosher or at least they hope it is and uh and they celebrate it now of course sometimes when they do such things uh you know their actions are questionable and uh they're you know why they even taking so much risk like this group of Jews in uh in England not too long ago uh took a uh the um uh locusts that they got and they said these are the locusts that are mentioned in a Torah that are Kosher that the yemenites eat uh but all the other Traditions don't eat and they a started frying these locusts these bugs and uh you know so it's kosher well if you're yemenite and uh and you know exactly which one is which and it's in your tradition for the last three thousand years then no one's gonna say anything about it but you're some uh you know uh you started eating locusts the question is are you really sure because if you're not if you're making a mistake here you're a very very serious problem on your hand but even more than that why are you doing this why do you need to eat this exotic food why do you need to eat this such unusual food that you're eating and this comes from the fact that people want to have a lot of tanu game a lot of fulfilling their desires over and over again and they want they say listen I'm eating cautious what's the problem if I eat you know exotic kosher the problem is that if your whole life you're going to be chasing exotic kosher and that means that you have not changed a single bit in the last 3 000 years since the whole story of pulling uh that got us into trouble by going to the feast because this exotic kosher food that everybody wanted to go eat at The house's house it was all kosher they want to eat for exotic food but what ended up happening it went from exotic culture to just exotic and just exotic exotic this exotic that and they made every sin under the sun and as a result of them praising the food praising the praise praising this praising that they became part of a public Hashem where akashvirosh brought out the tools and different things that we used in the betterment say that and it's quoted in sephir that each day brought six different tools that we used in the beta mcdash as a celebration that the betterment is now being built now if is partying that is not being built among the rest of Dal malachite's arrest of the Arab terrorists rest of the missionary uh uh Idol worshipers and so on and so forth and he's doing all of that then you know obviously Hashem is going to deal with them but it's not our problem they're doing whatever they're doing but when you have Jewish people in that same party that's celebrating the Vietnamese was not built and on top of it they're eating non-kosher food and they're now with non-kosher women and so on and so forth very very angry for those of who got very angry to the point where when the malachim or the Malachi came to him and asked him to destroy amiss agreed and wrote a decree to destroy Army slain to destroy himself but he didn't do it right away the story continued for another nine years Hashem gave am Israel nine years to wake up and see and realize that they've done wrong in Dutch and since they did not the story continued to the point where Haman got into power and almost almost destroyed all of us now from the looks of everything it seems like we're reading the same story year after year but anyone that studies the megilate Estelle and looks the different migration and a different uh stories there sees that the story is more and more relevant to our day-to-day life because of the other things that happened behind the scenes where you see that the uh it's it's not what it seems It's Not What It Seems thank you foreign [Music]