Purim: The Lottery Machine - Rabbi Moshe Don Kestenbaum

purim that's the name of the antifa but why is this yantif called purim the mcgill itself tells us purim comes from the lats because haman cast the lots he feel poor hua garo haman cast a lot to determine which month he should kill the jews the month of aadhaar which human thought was a great sign because that was a month that mo sharbino died as a kumar says in megillah he didn't realize that was also the month that mosher bena was born but regardless why is that such a significant part of the purim story of the per miracle that it gets the name of the yanteth after it that wouldn't seem to be that significant the famous answer that people suggest that i've heard over the years is purim lottery it looks like it's a lottery it looks like it's by chance but no hakura sparroku is running everything but this answer seems very difficult to understand because a lottery would seem to be by chance if one of us won the lottery we would think it's a great miracle we'd be very grateful to hashem but moreover come on the wicked hamman even believed in the significance of the lottery he took it as a good sign that the month came out the month of other so even believed it wasn't just chance his lottery so then back to the question why is the jantav called so i'd like to offer the following idea if you hear that someone wins the lottery would you say that it was a miracle every day people win the lottery you may see in the paper so and so from texas won the lottery you don't know who he is do you go well i can't believe it it's a miracle no you don't consider it a miracle when someone's a lottery why do you not consider it a miracle when someone's a lottery think about that what about if you won the lottery if you won the lottery would you consider it a miracle oh i won the lottery that may be a miracle what is going on over here the fact that someone wins a lottery you do not consider a miracle because someone has to win whatever the chances are whatever the poor odds are someone has to win the lottery but when you win the lottery then that's the miracle the miracles that i want the miracle is not that someone won the miracles that i want and that perhaps is the lesson of her the miracles of our life are not the fact that it happened the miracles of our life are the fact that happen then when it happens the sequence of how it happens how everything is arranged how everything is orchestrated the odds of putting all those different numbers together that's the miracle who's doing miracles for us all the time not things falling from the sky not crazy wild things but it's the miracle of sequence the miracle of events the miracle of how al-khersparco orchestrates everything in the timing just like in the purim story how everything is orchestrated in such an incredible way that only when you put everything together you understand the miracle of those events we should be zoha to open our eyes to see the miracles that koshbar was doing with us to see this is one of the most important lessons of purim our simcha aramuna our gratitude to hashem everyone should have a beautiful beautiful simcha de cayantes