Seeing vs Knowing: From Purim to Pesach, and Back Again - Rabbi Tanchum Cohen

what do we know and how do we know it it's a question that cuts through many masertos many parts of halacha how do we figure out the facts of a case the highest standard of evidence typically is to adam a pair of witnesses and yet the torah tells us the end of parasha's vayikra that even when it comes to two witnesses sometimes the witnesses testify about what they actually saw other times witnesses might be testifying about something that they know they didn't see the whole story but they can they saw a part and they can reconstruct the rest from what they saw the hemorrhage picks up on this idea and talks about two different types of ethos two different types of testimony agency dia i know but i didn't see and several were shown in the rashbad and vertenberg pick up this glimmer and explain that different situations call for different types of testimony so for instance the rama tells us in heaven hazard that under the huppa the a day conducion have to actually see the ring go straight from the hand of the hassan to the finger of the column they have to see the entire event in other situations however we will sometimes accept either they ate them so apart and they reconstruct what happened [Music] the hashkafa expressed by this halachi concept i believe is captured in the upcoming two yamato purim and pesach especially here such as this one hashana mubarak two other months when do we celebrate purim mishnah tells us celebrate purim in this month the second other why or the good reason that kumar gives is nissma it's important to have purim as close as possible to pessah but why purim and passover unrelated historically the story of purim happened almost a thousand years after you see us with shrine why is it so important to have purim passage as neighbors on the calendar the answer might lie in a comment of the rambam the very end of harsha's bow talking about passage and all the different myths that satori gives us to help remember utilizing shrine why rabban explains that the nissan at the time of ethios mitsraem the makos kris indication that there is a boreola a creator of the world who knows and cares what's going on with us who is deeply engaged in our welfare and our story and our destiny but then rambam goes on to say that it doesn't end there that's just the beginning and while it's critically important to be able to learn emunah from the open revealed miracles the nissan guluyan rabban tells us that a higher madrigal hashem is when we're able to recognize that kadushparahu not only in the great but rare measly but in the subtle everyday nissan start to be able to notice sakura in the flow of life in what seems like just routine every day to see akadeshwar from the hidden miracles the nissan nistaram that's an even higher madrigal that we can come to after we begin to notice him in the new simply in other words to notice akaresh bahu not only in a passage situation but in a purim situation is not so obvious that's what the media teaches us it's just a handful of episodes that take place over the course of almost a decade at the time while the stories were occurring jews couldn't see yad hashem but when it was all over esther and mordechai wrote on is called toketh all the power of akareshwar that was apparent once you piece together individual events that had happened over the course of the years vashti big sun and the choosing of esther the rise and fall of haman you put it together and you begin to see the pattern you see in what looks like the every day oh yeah there are times when we can see akarisba in very obvious ways but we're meant to grow from a pesach to a purim we're meant to grow into nourishing even when he's in obvious to be able to see and feel like in our lives even when he's not absolutely obvious that is the great game of purim afraid [Music]