Purim in January - Rabbi Yosef Weinberger

one of the biggest hidden miracles in the Torah is the birth of Moshe albino the Torah does not tell us how old johada was when she gave birth to moshiba Rashi does the math makes the calculations and tells us that your heaven was in fact 130 years old when she had Moshe and the question that many McPherson are bothered by is why does the Torah hide this incredible Miracle you know for example we know Sarah you mean it was 90 when she gave birth to avraham and the Torah goes into great detail in describing just how big of a miracle that was and Sarah didn't even believe it was possible and here with mosheb you know she's 40 years older than sorry was and yet we know nothing from the simple child that took him about her age and the tremendous miracle that it was that she gave birth to Moshe at such an advanced age in her life and the mafars didn't give their own answers but there's a beautiful idea a beautiful muscle from the Dublin that I'd like to share the Dublin says the following that there was once a group of Anem a group of poppers who were gathered around and each talking about you know how much money they made from which houses and and this one says I made a few rubles from this house and I got a few copax from that guy sadaka and finally one of the onion gets up confused looking at the others and says why are we talking about such minuscule amounts I recently went to a city every single door I knocked on people opened and were giving me tens if not hundreds of rubles like oh you're getting you're talking about five rubles six Scruples I made a windfall in that one day the other onion were genuinely confused like how is this guy making so much more money than us and one of them asks when exactly was this like when did you go and make all this money and he says oh it was Purim and then they all laughed poor him Purim of course we all make big money on Purim where you can't come in here and give us a story about Purim we're talking about a regular day but program yeah everybody everybody gives and everybody gives very generously says when the Jews got down to mitzrayim so to speak it was Purim there were Miracles abound you know it was Hashem was opening up his hand and just hand giving out handouts to everybody specifically in the realm of childbirth women were giving birth to six kids at a time women were giving birth so fast that the midwives didn't even have time to show up and help them with the labor it was such a miraculous setting of childbirth specifically that when you have a gay birth at 130 nobody flinched nobody even blinked it didn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary as opposed to the times of Sarah emmanu so then there were no Miracles like that for her to get rid that 90 was a much bigger deal and I think the lesson of the Magid is that this is not the way it's supposed to be it's just the way it is of course the birth of most Revenue as all the malfarsham asked was a much bigger Miracle than the birth of of yitzha it was a tremendous Miracle the problem was nobody appreciated it nobody realized it because the Miracles were abound childbirth was already off the charts in a manner that just made yogabed's birth of Moshe seem very normal very trivial and I think for us when we consider the The Life and Times that that we find ourselves in the situation the generation that we find ourselves in we also have to appreciate just how miraculous it is to be living in a time of religious freedom of the great opportunity of mitzvos because of you know all the advancements of the internet and social media everything that is at our disposal we might take for granted our ancestors would have dreamed about this it would be truly miraculous in their eyes to consider just how much we have to today and to recognize that we are living in Purim times this isn't a normal weekday what we have is nothing less than giving us handouts as if it's Purim and to to recognize the opportunity that we have and to treat it accordingly [Music]