The Year That Pesach Got Cancelled- Rabbi Menachem Penner

this is rabbi menachem penner on the 17th day of adar and i'm very happy to be able to make this video for kolatorakula in memory of my dear father-in-law bert schoenbach baruch god ben yosef halevy on his your site 17th of adar means that purim is over it's over everywhere in the world even in yerushalayim where it seemed it would never go away but the reality is that the story of purim the heart of the story of purim haman doing his lottery mordechai coming to esther esther making the decision that there should be a three-day fast that all occurs between the time we associate with purim and that esther decided to make her fast on the 13th the 14th and the 15th of nisa the fact that she figured the 13th and 14th that was a lot a two-day fast but a third three-day fast that went into and included the first night of the seder how did esther get people to agree to cancel their seder after having everything everyone invited and all of the food ordered she called off the seder that year but more amazingly as galevenstein points out not only did she cancel the seder but by telling the jews to fast she cancelled the mitzvah of matzah once a year we have a special opportunity a biblical mitzvah to eat matzah and esther made the decision and mordechai agreed and the jewish people agreed that it was better to fast and pray than to eat matzah that night and levinstein asks why i mean what bigger mitzvah could there be than to eat matzon the first night of pesach why didn't she tell the jews to fast and pray for two days and then to have in mind that when you're eating the matzah the seder so then you should have in mind that it should be to save the jewish people and the levenstein says something very powerful fela is there so that we can change our situation change our reality it's not a matter just of zuhulios it's not that when we pray we get an extra mitzvah and since we have an extra mitzvah now we can be saved fela works in a different way you know how many times i've had to go down to the basement yeshiva and tell a room full of people learning torah that they should stop learning tonga and say a few practical and i've always asked myself what is that why am i being movata the entire bass madrid to daven for a few moments can i clap on a stender and say everyone for the next few minutes please learn as a sus for whatever is going on a terrorist attack those who are hurt and eren's israel white fila why can't they just continue isn't talmud [Music] shimshin duffel pingus explains that phila is not about zachos it is a type of hishtadlus you couldn't imagine if god forbid a person had a heart attack in the basement could you imagine people are screaming call hatsallah and someone says don't call hatsola everyone get back to your learning and learn besides this person that would be retsuja when a person just passes that when a person has a heart attack you have to do your establish yes of course you should continue to learn unless you needed to get this person to the hospital and then you have to do your establish it turns out that tfela is a type of histables as well [Music] hashem the ramkhal tells us that tefila is the icker it's not that as sometimes we pose either i could pray or i could do praying along with what we do is a type of hishtadus as a type of an effort i want to explain that simply as i can is a phone call away wants to help us he is a type of ambulance but we have to pick up the phone and call him esther taught us that it was more important to fast and pray on the night of the seder than to eat the matzah because matzah is a tremendous horse but feeler a call to the ribonus has the power to save us