KLM Loving Hashem and The 3 Dimensions of Purim Mitzvot by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back and welcome everyone to what we call klm which stands for cavanaugh mitzvos and this is a program we're developing to create a greater awareness of the incredible potential when you focus when you do a mitzvah when you're aware of the mitzvah when you understand its depth and beauty as we said sometimes misses we do or activities need a little dusting off so we're going to dust them off and try to show the beauty in them now when you discover the beauty of the mitzvahs and their depth that's also a mitzvah you know what the misfit is loving hashem the rambam says that when you discover the wonders and and deep ideas and the and just the mitzvah itself and what it's doing to you etc you can be filled with love and when you do feel that you're fulfilling the torah commandment so i i asked hashem to give me success tonight so let's just bank on it that you're going to feel love so have in mind right now that we're going to do two primary misses the midst of learning torah and the midst of avas hashem loving hashem by discovering the depth and beauty of the mizes of purim okay and i want to present to you three dimensions with these mitzvahs i think even the first dimension you should be filled with love but after three dimensions i'm hoping it'll be a guarantee all right so here we go the first dimension of the missus of purim is what i call their mitzvas of survival now i'm sure that's not clear yet let me explain so perhaps one of the most important verses in the megillah is the uh verse that describes the decree of haman yamashima okay now listen to this this is in the parrot gimbal the third chapter pussycube and it this is haman sealed the decree and this is the essence of the decree it says like this the foreign there they dispatched letters in in the couriers of the king el col medinos to all the provinces of the king now listen carefully lahashmeed laha rogue allah obeyed at call and to cause to perish all the jews the villenegon asks a simple question how many times can you kill someone lush me to destroy to kill to cause to perish right what what's going on here right why so many expressions about getting rid of the jews and then at the very end it says um it says ushalam labose so hashmi to destroy lahar rogue to kill la obeyed to cause to perish and to plunder their possessions so the villa mcgowan has a beautiful explanation of what are all these terms for elimination about and he says it has to do with this there's four central aspects to a person okay this is very deep and spiritual first is the neshama the soul and the kabbalahs tell us that you know people wonder where is the soul and some people think would guess many people would guess it's in the heart but we actually it's in the mind in the moah right and then the shama so you have perhaps the most essential aspect is the person's nasham of their soul then you have the ruach that's also a part of the soul and that's connected to the heart so you have the neshama the ruach and the nephesh that also translates as soul and the nephesh corresponds to our physical body okay it's a spiritual expression of our physical body so those are three aspects the soul the shama the ruach the spirit the nephesh and the fourth aspect of a person are says development going they're possessions you hear that part of a person's identity or their possessions and unfortunately for many maybe too much of their identity is their possessions but that's we understand why there's such a pull because it's part of who you are okay now haman wanted he had a calculated progressive destruction here first the neshama shmod shemod is a term for religious persecution for preventing the jews from doing torah and mitzvots so so that's lahashmeed he wanted to starve if you will our souls and prevent torah mitzvahs that's lash mead the ruach ruach is trailing as a spirit right he and it's connected to your heart he wanted to kill our spirit and we see that his uh descendants the nazis and maksha mum what did they do obviously they didn't allow torah but what they also do they tried to break the spirits right that was a it's a classic strategy of evil people is to break their spirits before killing them so now we understand first of all religious persecution to stop the shama from what it desires so much mitzvahs right then to break our spirits and then a bed okay to kill to physically just to kill them right and finally if that's not enough their property to plunder their property no more jewish property you'll be in hands of the malachites so we see here what a plan he had what a horrible plan and what happened the miracle purim happened it's all reversed it's revoked it's torn up and therefore it says the villainous this is dimension one of the mitzvas of purim we're celebrating our survival of all these aspects our neshama was almost deprived of torments what did we get chris mcgillia an extra mitzvah the vilna gome points this out this was from the navi uh mr vermeer there there was not a mitzvah called chris mcgilla so instead of our neshama's being deprived of torments we we got another mitzvah chris magilla isn't that something that's a survival mitzvah next they tried to break our spirit what were we given right instead of having our spirits broken we celebrate we're joyous we're celebrating our ruach our heart was enlivened with joy okay so that's number two so we have megillah for the neshama we have simcha for the ruach and our nephesh which is connected to our body the suda of purim eating and drinking is celebrating our physical body our nephesh the life force is sustained by food and drink and now we're sanctifying it because we're celebrating what happened he tried a lot of bed let's call you let's eat and drink and be merry be merry for arua okay and then finally and i in my humble opinion this is the most beautiful of all they try they want you want to take all our possessions right so we celebrate we have possessions we celebrate baruch hashem that we have enough possessions to give him a ton of slave on him to give our resources to other people is that not beautiful so not only do we maintain our possessions we we can actually share that with others and give our possessions so this is the first dimension of the myths as a poem are you in love yet i i would hope so no you have to love you have to love hashem look at this you know the rabbis you know with ruachakotis fashion these survival mixes are okay so one more time because i want you to it's very important that as i try to say in this series um you know this is not a tv show right a tv show wow that was interesting i enjoyed that right so well it's already not a tv show because you're fulfilling the myths of learning torah and avas hashem but even more wouldn't it be beautiful if on purim when you're reading the megillah you say look at this another mitzvah neshama and your joyous emporium and you remember my ruach our spirit was saved and uplifted right and then i see i'm repeating it right and then finally the eating and the drinking to celebrate our body and finally giving gifts to the poor thank god i have enough money to give to others okay dimension one okay now the next dimension is what i call the misses of purim as pathways to hashem and for this i want to illustrate the second dimension of the mitsus of purim and it's important to keep in mind that we're cultivating avas hashem by discovering the beauty of his misses so all mitzvahs really are pathways to a shen and they're really aiming at attaining two treasures every minute you do and now i'm not talking about the world to come of course there's treasures galore but we're talking about here that every mitzvah you do is either going to lead to what we call devacus attachment to hashem in your thoughts and feelings meaning the mitzvahs that connect us to god that are focused being utterly mock home these achieve the vacus that's number one so you end up becoming connected to hashem attached connected is not close enough okay that's one set of misses lead that direction and then the other treasure that you try to attain whenever you do mitzvahs between man and his fellow being is walking in hashem's ways which means you become like hashem it is incredible how much you accomplish when you do a mitzvah you either attach your thoughts and feelings to hashem to vacus or you become like hashem you emulate hashem and you acquire divine qualities it's just amazing now if we use that matrix that we're heading either towards the vaca's attachment or drache of becoming like hashem now the mitzes of purim are a path to both okay and i'm hoping that at the end of purim you realize i got i attached my thoughts and feelings i achieved a vacus and i became more like hashem that's the goal that's a central goal of purim so let's take a look at the mitzvahs and try to understand how they lead to this path so first we'll start with bane adam lamakum these are mitzvah purim that have to do with you and your connection to hashem the and i'm going kind of in the order of which you'll experience it tinus esther the fast of esther uh well yeah that's what we'll focus on first the fast of esther fasting on that day is supposed to lead you to the vakish to attach your thoughts and feelings to shame how that's the question and then and we have to understand what the fast was about the fast was on the 13th of adar they fasted because they were going to war against their enemies and we're taught that what do you do to prepare for war you you hydrate right you eat a good meal you hydrate you exercise no you fast because you want to win the war and you want the help of the one who's going to help you win the war and that's the kadish warhol right so what do we learn fasting and praying wins the war and by the way so that so time is esther when you're fasting you say you know hashem i have to remind myself that the primary effort i make is spiritual right this was a central point in porn when they were uh under the decree and they realized they're in deadly trouble esther says let's fast for three days right and at the end of the fast she goes to see the king akashiros you know when jews fast they don't really usually shower they don't anoint right so the queen goes like after a three-day pass her breath the whole thing this is the vilna going explains do you hear this so that was her effort she wanted to persuade the real king akash borhu right so that's that's a key man mordechai mordecai should have gone in and told esther what was happening but he was wearing sackcloth this prickly thing you can't go into the king's area in sackcloth but mordecai did not want to remove the sackcloth for one second why because he wanted to win he wanted hashem's attention not the not the not the queen and the king you hear this so when we fast when we do tinus esther we have a chance to attach our our uh thoughts and feelings of hashem by our bitter own are trusting in the true source right being taming with hashem is the mitzvah so on on on tinus esther have in mind the mitzvah of the cultivating your trust in hashem and that leads you to the vegas okay next right so ala nissin we discuss this what should someone do when miracles are done for them you know who our hero is in this he's our cousin yisro we saw this isro did not experience miracles right he heard about the miracles of the jews the splitting of the sea and malik and what did he do he said baruch hashem with passion he said barak hashem for saving you right so i humbly suggest that you infuse a little barak hashem into your alanison right uh where you're talking about the miracles let's have yisro's passion about that they were done for our ancestors okay so if you say alanison with passion and with a reckoning thank you god for what you did thank you for the miracles devekis more devacus okay chris magilla now how does chris mcgillah achieve the vacus attachment tuition there's a lot to say but i'll highlight a couple points you know the gemara asks that we should be saying hallel we were saved in egypt they were saved uh from slavery and we say halal here we were saved from death right calva homer hallel so the gemara says that you know what uh represents hollow the creos megillah meaning that when you read the megillah it's supposed to be like hollow what's hallow mean hollow is a word for praise but it's not any old praise it's enthusiastic phrase praise right hallelujah you know how they say that in certain parts of america hallelujah right that's that's us that's what we're supposed to have that kind of passion and enthusiasm so how do you how do you make the christmas gila whoa hallelujah how do you do that the answer is you have to study the megillah and see the miracles there's one after another so when you when you when you hear it read and hear the beautiful tune turn up your enthusiasm enthusiasm about the miracles that's one way okay another is this the the megillah reveal reveals the unity of hashem's providence it's such a big mitzvah besides a muna you see how hashem is pushing everything forward towards the jews and towards the eradication of evil etc right so you have a mix of unity of hashem and all these things lead to devacus okay the suda and the drinking how does that achieve the vacus how do you attach your thoughts and feelings at the suda okay so a couple things couple ideas for you one is this sudah is a wine suda why because the suitor that got us in deep deep trouble was a wine suitor we went to akhis vero's invitation to his suitor which was a rachmanist celebrating the the destruction of the base of mig dash we ate and drank it was a terrible terrible thing it was terrible right so that was a pseudosaver and now what do we do we do a sudus mitzvah shem says i want you to eat and drink and have wine and i suggest want to vacus pray for the rebuilding of the base of mikdash you hear that that'll attach you to hashem you hear so you take this mitzvah this sudas mitzvah and you'll cleave your thoughts by praying sham bring back the face and make dutch let's completely rectify what happened okay and then the drinking until i said right getting drunk is also a chance for devacus because there's there's books about what it means to drink to the point that you can't tell the difference between arohaman and barak murahai but one of them is this rabbi yaakov there is a great beautiful wonderful thing happened with the destruction of haman but that wasn't all that happened mordechai and esther were promoted in a way jews have never been promoted and they had such glory and wealth and the jews were in a state at the end the jews were in a state of total glory mordechai what a wonderful thing so you go back and forth well wow wasn't that amazing what uh the destruction of mine wasn't that amazing what happened you go back and forth and you can't tell the difference right but all you can tell is well shem look what you did for us and you attached your thought finally finally on this path to devacus from the missus of purim the famous thing is what did the jews do that was so significant kabbalah satara they received the torah again but this time not under any coercion under pure love from the love of the miracles right so what you want to do you want to attach yourself to hashem at the suda say shen we will do and we will listen with love let's accept the torah at the suda and again you'll get the vegas so that's that's the uh the the pathway to hashem okay now let's see the other side we said the other thing is this walking god's ways is a path to become godlike i don't know who said this but it's a famous i wish we had said it but i don't think it was uh from uh from a rabbi or something like this but it says you've heard this before to err is human to forgive is divine and the right is completely right hashem revealed divine characteristics and they usually kind of take a little bit of overcoming our human emotions to do that right but any time you express a divine character trait you're becoming like hashem right it really is true when you forgive your divine on some level you're becoming more and more close to the divine the myths of purim have plenty of opportunities to become like hashem and let's start with this matanos now giving to gifts to the poor but it's all how you do it how do you do that in a divine way so just paying the money don't do it like that that's not enough right let's feel what is divine to feel compassion for those who are needy and lacking that's divine right so when you give the money to the poor when you i don't care if you give it through a agent whatever to say you know there are people who aren't able to give gifts they have to receive them they worry about their rent they worry about their expenses their people in poverty and pain and when you feel that kind of compassion that's divine you're becoming like hashem so that and also just simply giving your money is a kindness and that's divine too so giving to dhaka you hear this but given with compassion let's go all the way to become like hashem next masala manos right so that's another what is the purpose of that is to show express love and affection to our friends and family right to build up love does hashem love call yesterday absolutely right when we send gifts feel some love and friendship right and then that's divine so mashallah's is divine next opening your hands up to all this is a famous halacha anyone that opens your hand and asks for money on purim don't think about just give don't make any calculation does he really need it that's another god that godlike trait and what's that hanun gracious what does it mean when we say hashem is gracious it means he gives to us not because we deserve it he's just being gracious to us perhaps we are recipients of hashem's graciousness and perhaps we can when people open up their hands we can be gracious to them that's divine you're walking and god says hashem is gracious by the way this is an important point about charity in general you know it's a famous thing that you're the midst of charity really needs to go to the needy so what do you do people come at the holy hotel people come up you don't know if they're really needy so i say you can't lose it's win-win okay if they're really needy you're fulfilling the mitzvaka and you're doing the divine trait of compassion for the needy and if they're not needy you're being gracious you're also like hashem you you see you don't have to feel like begrudging when you give to someone when you're not sure if they need because be gracious hashem's gracious to us let's be gracious to others okay so that's what you can accomplish when you give charity on purim without thinking about it okay finally in this end of the second dimension the suda the meal is also a chance to be divine to have divine qualities and what is that is again you're showing love and friendship to your family right and friends etc right when you smile at them when you give them blessings bless away give brachas that is what hashem's blessing hashem gives love hashem is smiling at us all the time right so in the suda you can also halactiba drop of walking god's ways okay so this is the second dimension one more to go the second dimension in the midst of purim is their pathways to hashem to either attach ourselves to cleave to be dovate to hashem or to become like hashem that's dimension two okay three dimensions of the mitzvah forum and this is all for us to inculcate office hashem and also live these dimensions so we first met the first dimension was to recognize that we are celebrating the survival of all the essential aspects of our cells the second dimension is that the mitzes of porn are pathways to either attach ourselves to hashem or to become like hashem and the third dimension is the mitzvahs of purim create an atmosphere of the final redemption perhaps even the state of the resurrection of the dead an incredibly spiritual world and for this dimension i have to give credit where credits do you know the there is a mitzvah to say things in the name of the person you heard it you know that comes from who is the one who did that esther esther the the missionary allah says one uh one who says something in the name of another person brings redemption the world and they bring esther said uh about the plot to akshaya in the name of mordechai okay so this last dimension i heard from a rabbi reuben leuchtter a very uh well-known rabbi he brought this dimension three which is the mitzvahs are creating an atmosphere of the ultimate redemption and it goes in sequence okay so what's the really the first myths we do uh when purim actually takes place creos magilla and what happens in the qurious megillah in the history of those times in a natural way evil was destroyed evil vanished haman his ten sons and then the amalekites throughout the 127 there was a destruction and eradication of evil the the bill negon says when the ten sons of haman were destroyed who were terrible sorcerers right he says like 50 levels of tuma left the world so stage one you just encountered in the megillah in this on that day the eradication of evil and that's something that we have to look forward to in the final redemption next matunus levion the elimination of poverty on purim everybody makes the greatest effort to give to the poor so the poor aren't poor right that's another thing no poverty in the world to come no evil no poverty that's stage two stage three mashallah manos isla what do we want so badly unity with the jews right you know the part of the purpose of manos is if there's tension or friction with another jew give him give him your shalom create unity and a lack of friction so in the world the come what do we have no evil no poverty unity the souls of the people unified and finally loyada right what happens we drink until we have no more dos no more awareness body is operating and if you approach purim in the right way you go through these dimensions you know what comes out when your mind is kind of set aside kedusha and spirituality in the in the final in the tsa mesa the ramachan explains our bodies are going to be spiritual our bodies the our bodies will be so connected to our soul it'll just be very beautiful and spiritual even our physical side and that's what can happen on purim if you go through these stages you could end up that your body is a kid of hashem your mere body just brings out beauty gives blessings and says i love you hashem and cries it enjoys a spiritual connection etc so that's what we have to look for and please god we should do a porn properly and really experience that that all those states no no evil no poverty unity and sanctity even in our physicality and that's what we should all celebrate the final redemption being here man [Music] is [Music]