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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #94 Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer - Shushan Purim
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and uh we have uh tonight we're going to
be speaking about the shushan burn
correct and uh before we get to the
topic if we give it a little bit of a
background about the rabbi and the great
work you're involved with yeah all right
um
yeah
yeah went through uh you know the uh
Yeshiva system but uh I uh you know my
big flip out you know happened uh uh
when I was studying in charlevim inert
Israel as uh where I went there already
at the age of uh 16 and a half I turned
17 in my first year basement there and
um
got very close to two personalities uh
in particular
Shiva somewhere else and uh and a man by
neighbor of Aria Handel I think today is
the scan rashiva there uh you know um
you know these two gentlemen uh you know
took a
modern Orthodox kid and uh shook him up
a bit and uh you know Rabbi cats have
got me uh you know in Columbus and Rabbi
Handler first exposed me to what we call
makshava and where khabarusa learning
more in the book I'm together and then
uh after uh three years in charlevim I
went to nurse raw and uh yes there's a
Baltimore I had a very special casual
tour of nacham Lansky shlita Zan gazunta
it's a big bow makshaba and big yodea
and kabala also but I I particularly got
extremely close with man rashiva Jacques
of wine because
I had khabarusa with him once a week for
an hour for seven years wow during that
time I was allowed to you know
officially we're learning the masecta of
the Shiva but I was allowed to ask him
anything so sometimes the topic went way
off the dark you know sometimes in
somebody
and he allowed me to ask why they had a
very special habibas with him for seven
years like I said uh jumping ahead many
years I put out his Terrace on YouTube
in a my very first safer that came out
in 2005 the Evan shasia Andrew gimo
ikram that was a very big he had a lot
of terrorists on you gimo ekram also
decoding the big mystery you know why
are these 13 ideas the whole tar is
equal is Holy equally from God what did
the rambam want by isolating these 13
things maybe we'll give it as a series
here in hazak we won't give it away
tonight yeah he had a very special he
said he also had a very special period
from the rambam you know that followed
that theme on each and won the icarim
and I collated you know tapes from many
kufas he had been teaching you more
ekram in many different forms uh for
decades and I collated all different
tapes and notes and things I heard and I
uh I compiled to say for the words of
the rambam on top and based on what he
said uh beneath it you know with other
risham
um but uh you know that but at one point
um you know Mary Saul started a program
I believe still exists called maor uh it
was started by uh malikovski's I was
like together with Robert grossenfeld uh
uh so at that time we're talking about
uh I had to date myself I wasn't born
yet but it was the late 80s and the uh
right and the uh and uh of course some
file used to be visiting Mary stroll
because together with me and uh Sean
milakovsky they they had started more on
the nearest whole campus uh back then
and now it's still it's taken off
uh and uh every once in a while you know
of course we thought they had time he
would give khaburus to the bakrid and uh
so he gave hero once gone to a fight
with him you know wait but it's okay was
it became a love-hate relationship
talking or sparring and learning and in
your name and uh
and I asked him you know you're a town
of Shapiro during this time uh this
kufer mashup he used to come in in the
Summers uh to be uh Scotland residents
in Camp Silver Lake I don't know if
there was a camp associated with the
Tara tamima system I
you know this uh and asked me would you
set it up that give me remote show uh
and uh and he set it up that at the end
of the summer Moshe was uh in Flatbush
for a few days of my family the thoughts
that he was very close to and uh there
was a day where the whole family was
gone was just me and him in the house we
spoke for like three hours wow from
first encounter and he got my heart
right then and there and I scraped
together some money I went there to
throw this was like uh the end of summer
I went there for socas and I begged him
to let me stay and Learn by him he said
look I don't have Yeshiva I don't I
don't have a setup you know I just go
back get married and come back
uh anyways for two years I was in
correspondence with him and they're
during those two years was the first
Iraq war all right and uh I remember the
other one the way it worked was I used
to write to him but he didn't write back
he didn't like writing you see write him
a letter and then you follow up with a
phone call a few days you know a few
weeks later after he got the letter and
you don't I don't get through if I call
them like 1am or 2 A.M Israel time
that's going to pick up the phone yeah
he first pick up the phone in the wee
hours of the morning
you know and uh and that's how you know
send them my questions I did very Terror
you know and uh and uh follow up a
couple weeks later with a phone call
and then I remember that you know the uh
the war broke out in that and the the
night that I called him
uh the uh there was a Scott attack and
uh you know at that time we didn't know
the great Miracles came out later but
nothing uh nothing happened yeah it was
unbelievable right but at the time it
was uh this is at the beginning it was
very scary and I said
right yeah so Rabbi I'm worried about
you as a healthy dog they don't worry
about me
worry about yourself that you become
something wow right that was a that was
like that really set the tone for
relation it was a uh quite demanding in
a motivational way but demanding God and
uh you know so for two years it went on
like that and he guided me uh long
distance what khaburus to say in their
Israel you know you know the study
groups with younger students and uh and
then after two years he came again to
America and
um
was visiting that family flatbushed
Thors and uh I came to see him and I say
oh it's been two years hasn't it yeah
I really thought that when I told you to
go back and get married would be like
six months now we're two years later
forget it your Civic is an urges wrong
right wow you guys your Bashar is in
Israel come just come learn by me we'll
figure it out you know he didn't have
any Sheba or anything and uh
with a change of undergarments left
everything behind just left uh it was
matai rosh hashan I left Baltimore I was
all right foreign
he put me in uh
it's a Friday afternoon that was I was
unmarried and I was the youngest guy
there that was set together with uh
Orbach you know it's uh brother-in-law
Harkins uh
it's very honored they put me in that
khaburra and uh and it now find yourself
a job as a market share a single yeah
but we're through uh it takes so long we
have to get to our topics of discussion
but through a whole series about Chicago
I landed a job as a market shareitorah
and uh I lived in the dorms with my
tummy then but then I uh it's
interesting situation I uh and I thought
my shove I taught the basics I taught
guys after all I taught also the most
advanced commercial or whatever the
whole gamut and uh after a few uh a
couple of months there as someone said
uh you know someone from Arizona asked
me to go into the offices where I never
ventured into the office area I was
always in a basement
take care of something we're sending
some of our donors to Israel we want the
office to service them while they're in
the old city and uh met and I was
directed to a young woman that handles
these types of things end up marrying
her right right yeah and then there's
others I was very close for myself seven
years in that khaburra and uh yeah but
you know it's uh lifelong talmud and uh
yeah very much yeah
expanded my horizons and and you know
particularly in the area of Jewish
philosophy theology Kabbalah you know
you know he gave another dimension to it
aside from what I heard from my other
Robin was uh
and uh yeah and uh
who's your rebbe mover guys I have two
spiritual fathers over Yakov one we're
gonna have a remote ship here no it's uh
interesting that you know bizarre says
that the uh the Yakov and Moshe have a
special relationship yaakov Miller bar
um
yakov's on the outside most is on the
inside that my Derek Halima Gamora
rambam it's all for Jakob Weinberg you
know my approach to uh you know uh you
know a certain storm which I was in
Macaw from Yakov Warren we're gone like
you know
Russia that's all from Marshfield the
Yakov Miller Moshe milagava uh yeah and
I go by their light you know everything
I do to I never say a share without uh
quoting at least one of them if not both
of them uh and uh as in Israel for 22
years I had very eclectic teaching
Career Information Torah I have my own
Yeshiva for my older Americans for a few
years and I taught in there okay time I
told him I also taught in Israeli she
was I'm very fluid deliver it
so and I sat in a smarty best in
revokana parrots is best in uh in Romeo
and uh eight years ago we moved back to
America for a variety of reasons and
since then I've been uh lecturing and uh
and writing and uh you know I put out
another five sparm another five storm
also by the name of Evan Shazier but
these aren't English and they're on the
count they're on commission on the
calendar and
um I do this type of thing also do
podcasts with Hazard that's my main
thing right amazing we're very impressed
very impressive so much you've done do
for qualities of the Jewish people
because
continued success so everybody knows
Rabbi uh about Purim you know Purim is
uh uh you know very exciting happens to
be my
people not might not be as familiar so
if the rabbit could uh ignite and
Inspire or explain a little bit
okay the uh if Joseph is like the only
holiday like that that it subdivides
into two holidays uh that are um you
know that are to be observed differently
you know by P depending on where you
live it's a very interesting thing right
that uh so now I I guess we should start
with the the history of it uh and so the
the dry bone facts are that you know the
Jews had uh you know yeah did uh went on
the Rampage and in a good way you know
in a good way a healthy release of anger
and all you know for getting rid of all
that pent-up anger against anti-Semitism
you know and uh and they uh they they
really uh put out 75 000 people and in
shushan alone 500 and then Esther makes
an odd request
just for shoeshine one more day of
you know getting the anger out yeah and
and they I believe I killed an
additional 300 and and because of that
one extra day right that Esther asked
just for shusha just for sure
so
instituted you know because it was the
day after Purim you know so meaning they
rested the day after Purim so all the
Jews also outside shushan rested on the
14th today which we rest they celebrated
14th we celebrate the Jews in shushan
were killing for another day so they
were busy on the 14th they rested on the
15th all right so that's their day of
Celebration so Hazard went and and and
instituted that uh all world cities from
which have a war from the days of
yahushua Joshua you know conquered
Cicero and he was the Conqueror of
Earth's role and we'll discuss why right
they keep
so now even though shushan itself did
not have oil from the days of yahushua
you know shushan was built later in
history but that was they also until
this day if we know where shushan is in
Iran they keep the 15th also because
that's where the miracle happened so
shushan itself keeps the 15th and
outside of shushan right places with uh
a wall around it from the days of
yahushua uh keep the 15th also and and
it's it's amazing because I'll say you
know some Jews that it's already in the
middle of the Jews that proze them that
live in the scattered cities done world
cities they keep the 14th and the Jews
and shushan and subsequently uh hazal
Institute expanded it you know to the
Jews of yushalayim let's say right they
have to keep the 15th so that's the
history and it's all because of Esther
asking for one more day right you're not
saying give us tomorrow also
so we have to understand you know what
was Esther thinking and that's what
triggered a whole nother Purim you know
which uh you know it's it and it's not
celebrated you know you know Jews only
keep both days important if in like a
place like tavaria because tavaria
Tiberius is uh there's a doubt you know
what whether it's called the world city
not because one side is water so it's
walls are ancient right from the times
of Joshua but it's not fully Waltz okay
so the reason why they're keeping the
14th and the 15th is uh is actually uh
stringency because they don't know which
porn but ideally if you keep the 14th
you don't keep the 15th if you keep the
15th you don't keep the 14th so why did
you know and I'm waiting for you to ask
me about this why the sages would do a
thing like that making the two purims
actually mutually exclusive for the
people that live here it's only the 15th
and not the fourth day bill it's only
14th and not the 15th you know and what
was Esther thinking but but that is the
raw bear facts all right except one more
point to add that uh you know it's a
urushami that the rambam brings okay
that the reason why they expanded it you
know beyond shushan
right that's a place where the miracle
happened it's when they had the extra
day is to give honor to Israel the land
of Israel which was conquered by Yoshua
because uh you know shushan was you know
the capital of the world because you
know ruled over the whole civilized
world at the time and uh so shushan was
the capital world and and yerushalayim
was desolate at that time you know uh it
still was awaiting to be rebuilt so to
give honor to yerushalaya so I say you
were so that shushan poem should apply
to all those places that have these
walls from times to honor the land of
Israel in general you know that has
these historical places a few and new
slime in particular and that kind of
leads into the secret behind uh yes but
you want what's the significance of the
whole uh Susan print okay so which gets
to like what was Esther thinking she
wanted one more time right so now
you know now shushan is uh is not uh
you know it's it's not mentioned uh just
once or twice in the McGill is a place
where it happened to be the capital it's
quite mentioned quite often yeah
all the Jews were a little bit confused
and upset about the edict first to be
exterminated and then
you know the years the town of shoes I
believe all Jews were happy right it's
like shushan is like uh is being
mentioned over and over again as a
concept as a concept right so
here's the thing right uh you know by
the uh Feast the first time we uh
encounter shoeshine is the big feast
made which will start saying the stage
whole story because that's where vashti
you know made a made a big mistake and
it got her According to some banished
scoring some executed uh and that
ultimately put Esther installed her so
now by that
big big party our sages say we actually
I I don't know if by in our communities
we read the Kaley and the Kim Shrine
with a tune from
special vessels by his party these were
the vessels of the temple from yusha
line right
all right there's a there was an amazing
thing going on over here with um
you know uh shushan
uh and uh and and
they they actually knew it intuitively
all right you know we're God's people
right and and even in Exile which is the
story of porn happens during the Batman
as well
our the divine presence is with us all
the time God doesn't abandon his people
that's right you know uh you know and
that's really what Purim taught us that
that was the message of Purim I have to
uh quickly uh speak out a very uh very
nice idea from the soldier on the uh
which by my Revolution Shapiro put me on
to his foreign
that uh you know Jews even before the
era formalized pair prayer used to say
in their in their prayers
Great Mighty and awesome why because
it's pattern after what Moshe said also
he addressed
since Moshe you know because how do you
what do you say about God well we'll
follow the lead of motion a master
prophet he would know the right words to
say when you trust goddess you know so
he called God I got all the great a
keyboard you know the the mighty event
or in the awesome so Jews always said
that even before it got formalized by
ansheknesses the men of the Great summit
they gave us the formal prayer all right
so and so was a Jewish custom right but
then came the uh the destruction of the
first temple which is you know sets the
stage of the story of poem that happens
nearly 70 years later in that Exile
triggered by the structure first temple
and uh you know and uh Daniel and your
Mio who were alive at the time they
stopped saying keyboard or I'm not gonna
lie you know where's God's might the the
Gentiles they beat up on us they oppress
us and God's not saved us where's his
mind I'm not saying gibor and everyone
said you know the place where the temple
was right now you know it's uh you know
the guy and they party there and then
the animals were all there it's
desecrate so where's the awesomeness so
they dumps
right then the ancient who were that was
the David
and so and they were the Sanhedrin of
Ezra Ezra was the head of that and and
they were you know the the that was the
Sanhedrin at the time of the story of
Purim they said adorable just the
opposite heyning Versa just the opposite
it's a matter of perspective you you
could see God's might that he's
restraining himself you you pick up my
kid I'll kill you right and I said we're
being picked on Hashem is restraining
himself and not you know vanquishing you
know not killing out Millions you know
all these millions of anti-semites that
shows you know we're strange that
strength yeah but also Heine Norris
that's his awesomeness there's nothing
more awesome than and and the greatest
revelation of of of the divine presence
than the survival of the Jewish people
in Exile that just that there's
obviously they have some magical safe
space even when they're in hostile
environment there must be like a magical
bubble around them and and that's
awesome that that that that is a
revelation of divine presence right that
what's protecting Jewish people on exile
yeah so the uh you know the Iran's in
her ass how did
figure out what Daniel and yamil were
Bonafide prophets couldn't figure out
themselves so they had an edge they
lived through the story of Purim they
lived through the story of puram puram
teaches us even in Exile God watch us
he's with us and he's and he's fully in
control he's manipulating everything
right
right but you know
you know the you know
they they had they they got half the
story straight so that you know the
divine presence is with the Jewish
people right they're surviving in the
Exile surviving and certain areas even
thriving like we do today survive and
thrive you know we uh leave our imprint
in all the Arts and the sciences and
right it shows you know God's people you
know we should have disappeared from the
map a long time ago so now they realize
something you know if the world exists
for the sake of the Jewish people
because God wants a nation to be the
receptacle of his divine presence
if we kill out all the Jews
what happens the day after
because the world will cease to exist
right
so they came up with a conspiracy you
know we have to find a way to trap the
divine presence
here amongst us
right they had a conspiracy that to make
the shushan the new yerusha line it will
be the New Jerusalem where the divine
presence rests and that's where he
brings out the the vessels of the temple
right he wants to force the divine
presence to be in shushan and if we
could make shushon becomes the new
Temple the new yerushalayim and we could
like trap the divine presence there so
we could get rid of the Jews and the
world will continue to exist right and
and that was the plot that they had you
know they they were you know there's a
interesting Gamora you know that uh
Likens
and Haman to a guy who had a big hole in
his field and I got to fill up that hole
another guy had this big mound in this
field he wants to get rid of right
and they kept with an idea put your
mound in my home and everything evens
out
oh so and that was
had the mound Haman had the pit right
you know you think what they're doing
and and the idea of right the fractures
the Jews are the mound
for Haman the Jews are the whole they're
like a hole in his heart if they drive
them crazy
put your mound in my home but but you
think about what what what's being
alluded to there is that they tried to
find a way of cosmic balance put the
mound in the hole and everything
equalizes right they thought that they
could get rid of the Jews and still
capture the cosmic energy
that the Jews have the srina and make
shushan the new yerushalayim and that's
a shushan is like you know uh you know
referring to am Israel you said that in
the uh in shares
and the whole opening of the Zoras how
omnisols right you know we we're that
rose shushan right shushan was going to
be the replacement for the shoshana all
right beautiful now so now you know and
the truth is
they thought that their plan was
succeeding from by the fact that Esther
was there because Esther was uh you know
it was actually the vehicle of the srina
in that generation you know and uh and
and it was there she was captive in the
house of akashvirus so whether they knew
it consciously or subconsciously they
thought their plot would work we could
capture the shrina but just like Esther
if she just manipulates turns the whole
thing around even when she came to
because even the divine presence in
Exile it's calling the shots
whatever would Biden decides you know he
doesn't sign anything but you know uh
Whatever Gets decided right you know
it's all the shrina that seemly begolos
but for it's like it's like it's like
the prisoner that runs the whole jail
cell
right powerful right so Now esther
Esther knows what the plot was the plot
was that they were they want to capture
and that's why shushan shushan shoes on
because that's where the divine presence
was in that age right and and they want
to try to like capture it and and just
take it and and and and and eliminate
the Jewish people and and shushan habira
would be the new Temple that would hold
it and that's why the world will
continue to exist without us all right
so is that okay now I'm going you know
I'm going to the other extreme in
shushan right we're gonna kill for yet
another day right that's part of the not
vocal that was your plan for the day
after you get rid of the Jews so for the
day after that you thought you would get
rid of the Jews we're gonna have shoe
shampoo because that was your plot for
the day after so it's going to be like
you know what we're going to do to stick
it in your face the day after right and
and then I get back to you show me that
they did it to honor yerushalaya
director because the plot was to make
sure you should appear the new yerusha
lion right right and that's it that's to
honor the land of Israel that you'll you
know if the shrima if the divine
presence follows the Jews into Exile
it'll never be permanently affixed in
Exile it's always on its way back to
yerushalayim and it's to give honor to
yerushalayim and and they made it they
made it uh you know they made it
dependent on a wall on a wall yeah why
is that because uh ultimately when the
divine presence comes back to Islam it's
gonna be a tremendous cosmic alignment
that had got disrupted by the sin of
Adam which is where there's allusion to
Haman the gemara says right
because you know uh before the sin of
Adam you know
there was Clarity there was Adam had
most unbelievable Clarity right because
these terms Tobin Rogers are so
relativistic right you see what they're
doing in Academia and making The Bad The
Good The Good The Bad God help us right
you know these these you know in the
words of rambam Adam he didn't think in
terms of Tove and radical and even
thought about MSN Checker what is and
what isn't there's no gray area
everything is fully clear right and you
know we had that type of objectivity and
and therefore for him the idea of bad
was all off the radar it was outside it
was outside of reality as if there was a
wall around reality and and evils like
this theoretical idea on the outside
yeah you know on the other side of a
secure border right a secure border
right
so you know and and uh and with eating
from that tree he imported evil into
himself and into the world
and and it's a medrish that says that
the snake is under you what do you find
a snake under a fence right and he says
why are you under the fence Ani parats
because I was on made the original
Cosmic breach
that's why they like open borders okay
right you know no walls right you know
that there's uh no barriers right when
God when when the when the world
realigns it should be speedily in our
days and we go back to his own Divine
principle there's going to be a
tremendous realignment that we're gonna
you know good will be Central because
Israel is the center of the globe well
and when the screen is in its proper
place right the evil will be displaced
from reality and it will be called that
the walls of the world will be rebuilt
and he will be on the other side of
those walls and that's what the that's
what the the uh you know that's what the
walls of your shalim represent
philosophically they're like the the
walls around reality you know that
reality should just be kulotov like God
said about it by the Genesis and and
evil should just be on the other side of
the wall out in fantasy land not not
within you know not within the bubble of
reality and that's why we pray
it's not just a practical it's not just
pragmatic
if the Torah says
right that's right oh it's the wall it's
it's the wall that though that that that
that that reality should be in a secure
place and and you know that's all good
right and the evil should be on the
outside wall and that's that's the
future and that's what shushon perm is
about it's it's the Purim of the future
that's why they can't be on the same day
because the poem of the present we
defeated the the anti-semites of the day
Purim is about the tomorrow that's a
you're not saying
it's the Purim of Tomorrow When the
walls of reality the walls of neutral
line will be rebuilt the good will be
restored in in point Center and evil
will be on the other side of the wall of
reality and so it's the Purim of
tomorrow right all right the Purim of
tomorrow that's why it can't be on a
Sunday because one is celebrating the
god the the Miracles of the present and
one is celebrating a little bit of of
light from the future
wow especially for these places that you
know have that connection because they
have these special walls if those walls
aren't physically there right they're
connected to the concept of of of what
will be when when you when the shrima
goes back to yerushalayim the day of the
World of Tomorrow When you know evil
just will be outside of reality amazing
grab a back cover what a beautiful
breakdown what a beautiful explanation
of uh poems right and the whole concept
of shushan loved every single word
amazing so Rabbi we know after Purim we
have pesach right and is there any
significance between the days of Purim
right so is there anything to it or is
it just beyond the cleaning yeah it was
just cleaning no actually it's very good
yeah everyone knows the the song you
know and the song was so popular made it
into the talmud you know Mr Nicholas
right once other comes in right
so now Rashi says interesting thing
because it ushers
that means that from the it's not just
from Purim that's coming it's for Purim
and pass it's a Continuum and other we
start celebrating uh you know feeling
increasing in joy for Purim and it's a
Continuum right it's a good connected
it's connected because it is indeed a
process
the um you know first of all uh you know
uh hazal tell us our sages say that when
him and Drew the Lots on Ador right he
was so happy it's the furthest month
away from Nissan because yo Nissan you
know the month of Passat because pesos
where you know we we had our Redemption
yeah right we had freedom Redemption
apparel where president was broken and
then there are there are uh you know
opinions his opinion the gemara or
Yeshua but he suddenly God blessed in a
Seedling legal right we are destined to
be redeemed again in the month of this
and let it be speedily right so uh
another is the furthest away you could
get from Nissan right because this is
the first month uh there's the 12th but
he was wrong because this part of what
other leads back into Nissan right and
it's part of the lesser of Purim Vena
focal where he thought that you know the
everything that he thought was to his
Advantage worked out to his disadvantage
other goes full circle but Let Me
Explain how other goes full circle
because Redemption is is a should be a
from inside out right first we should be
liberated in mind and Heart have the
mentality of free men that we work for
God Only God only and God alone and and
God is our King now and and and that
Clarity is what the Jews attained in the
days of Quran in the heart you know it
was it was a hidden Miracle right uh and
only the Jews figured it out and he
wants to say it was a coincidence or to
you know the king he's fickle he changed
his mind all the time you know you know
he's always changing his mind this and
that you know uh but we saw that it's a
miracle and we in our hearts uh attain
Liberation we re-accepted the Torah we
accept that God is our King
it was it was a Jewish Renaissance on
the inside because because you know uh a
a external geopolitical Revolution is
reversible you want to make a permanent
revolution has to start with the heart
right and and and and and and it
explodes outwards but if you just first
have the geopolitical change without
change of art it'll be temporary it
won't last right so in Purim you know is
is where in in their hearts they
re-accepted God as the king it was like
it was a Jewish Renaissance right and
but it but it's still hidden on the
external level and that's the reason the
gamara says one of the three reasons
here why we don't say Halal
version which externally were still
slaves of on the geopolitical level The
Liberation was in the heart and in the
mind right but the uh and uh you know
but on pesach is when the ghula happens
in physical actuality right you know and
that's why we say how long passacas God
is openly revealed for all the other
nations to see he had the ten Marcus
so the uh it's a you know it's a goal
first there's the Purim is the renewal
of our that we are citizens of Hashem
not citizens of we have that renewal in
our heart we re-accept the Torah we're
Bound By God's laws not by the secular
laws right uh the Torah is the truth is
our truth so Purim so is is to uh put
the mind and heart in the right place
and pesach is where now it emerges to
the outside you'd see us it's right it
comes it's locked up inside of us
there's made sirim it's constrained and
it bursts forward on PESA so so it's
like uh it's like everything that
happens on Purim you view it as it's
it's bubbling over bubbling over until
it comes pouring out bursts out on PESA
right uh
you don't forget about it the next day
it's something that you want to build on
you want to build on build on that peso
should be that every that everything
that all that all that power that was
inside of us burst for us and changes
the world and it will make a real
permanent change because it's backed up
by Inner substance
so many beautiful insights and uh love
every single moment we had so many gems
uh we have a custom we have I mean haga
and horror talks podcast one final
message for our brother our audience
right
yeah so um yes
we we just got through saying that that
I'm Purim is where we actually put our
minds and hearts in the right place and
pestock should be how you know that just
emerges you know the um
you know
you know you might think you know poem
is where we get you know smashed right
shattered and if you do it right that's
called putting your mind in the right
place and and uh because I'll say you
know that you know uh you gotta if you
do it right you know it's Adelaide to
the point you don't know the difference
between Heyman and Mordechai right which
okay so so to explain that you know I I
just want to speak out a villagone a
very uh powerful film ago right so we
know that there's a relationship between
Yom Kippur and Purim the Zara says it's
only a day like is even Holier right
right
there's a lot of explainers but you know
but says the villagon an amazing point
you know these are Yeoman tovin all
right these are holidays now in by
General Yemen Tobin we know that there's
a idea
half for God half for you all right
split the day that's on the way Ram says
do it as I get up early in the oven
until morning and then you know after
after chakras learn right and then uh
you know and then party till Nightfall
that's the way you know that you split
the day you know uh it's all right half
and half so here's the question where is
weren't sure all day long we don't eat
and where's the last sham of Purim
that's the villagome we'll go and says
there are two halves of the same day
they're two halves of the same day you
know because you know on Yom Kippur also
we re we repent and we re-accept Hashem
we're gonna be better we're coming back
to you right except that there's a very
big difference it's the same theme of
coming back to Hashem but we do it in
two different ways there's we do it the
LA Hashem way of just being in school
all day so because I'll say on that day
you know the yet Sahara is indeed gone
you know and that's why we could say
out loud is it for angels and we feel
like we dress you know we guys and why
like Angels you know and we don't wear
shoes because Angels you know fly you
know so we don't need to be have shoes
enable us to be anchored to Earth you
know all these things were like angels
and they just there's no evil
inclination on on Yom Kippur and that's
fine you know but yeah but it's because
that day is so holy so of course the
evil can't exist has no room like the
light dispels the darkness but the
darkness goes make a comeback Purim is
bigger we go into the darkness like you
stare down your Boogeyman you stare him
down until you see that he's nothing
that's Purim then we have to know that
is equally in service of God as Baruch
Mordechai on Purim we have this Clarity
there are no two sides to the issue is
what we said it's what they say as if oh
it's a Mac look as you know we believe
we're right nah there are two sides
issue pardon me oh we go into the depth
of as it were the the other side's Turf
run his Turf on his home court and we
stare them down stare right through him
and see his nothingness and that makes
the permanent situation he could never
make a comeback after Yom Kippur he
could make a comeback because it's just
all the light dispelled the darkness
Rapids when the if the light ever
shrinks God forbid right in in Purim on
and when we're on his court right with
the food and the drink and the making
Mary and in that state staring him down
and seeing him for the nobody is that's
when you go into the dark room and stare
down your Boogeyman after that he's
never coming back right just turn on the
lights he'll come back and turn off
lights you're on his Turf and that's the
main thing on this day we uh you know
the the frivoli asked me that we make
fun of them you know the nut everything
that they're saying in the second
student is all the terrible day it's
nothing it's nothing we should be
mocking we should be cynical about it we
should see it for the nothing that it is
right that the aura Haman is no you know
in no way can stop the Baruch Mordechai
right he's nothing he's not here so yeah
or a woman is not another side of the
issue you know he does not take up any
space and impede on the Baruch Mordecai
so you do put them right up to get the
clarity of the nothingness of you know
what you know you know what the second
world's trying to feed us that that is
the clarity of pouring amazing
for what division words of inspiration
amazing amazing really really appreciate
it thank you very much Rabbi okay
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