After a year like this - how can we be joyous on Purim? | Rabbi Chaim Mintz

hello and shame alaikum to all of you out there friends of uru first of all regretfully it must announce that uber will not have its manual purim feast in lakewood like we've had all the years due to the covet situation it's just not the right thing to do this year i certainly certainly hope that all of you will do your best to have your own purim feast wherever you'll be and keep the happiness of porn at a high standard like it deserves somebody asked me that here we're talking about the great holiday joyous holiday of purim the joyous month of our daughter and they said how can we have a joyous time and have a hatreous holiday with all the difficulties we've gone through the past year since last quarter it's still going through to a great extent all the people that are sick people that passed away great people passed away great jewish people rabbi scholars and many jews are still very sick and people are at edge people are upset people not being able to get together with their families grandparents with grandchildren how can we celebrate and be happy and poor i told him really that's really the essence of poor jews for other ages have gone through all kinds of difficulties in all generations since the destruction of a holy temple hardly been a long period of time the jews have had manuka and tranquility without any problems without any worries and that is what we celebrate that hashem is with us through all our problems alert difficulties that we've suffered over the years that uh it's amazing that the fact we're still around purim itself naturally was a only holiday that was in high exile jews went through such tragedies but hashem showed that he's still with them he kept them alive kept them going and made a great miracle for them so we're celebrating on purim that itself that word that we're the person asked that's what we're celebrating about that even though we're gonna go through difficult hashem's with us he's making sure that we're alive he's making sure that we do what we have to do he gives us nudges a lot of times we have to wake up you're not acting like you should you're jewish people i demand perfection from you it's like a parent who's demands perfection from children out of love they'll criticize them sometimes scroll them some even give them a pot sometimes because they want them to come around to be perfect to use their talents and to be what they can be that's hashem the jewish people since he wants us to live forever he wants to go to the world to come and the world to come is a world of perfection so we have to perfect ourselves in this world to get to that world that's our the keys to get in perfect ourselves with the words of the torah of the lords of the torah and that's what purim is all about even the jews were in exile they went through a terrible time in history when they were expelled from the holy land the holy temple was destroyed many jews were killed but they're now in shushan and the countries around lands around and hashem's watching over them and he made a miracle for them and that's the big holiday we're celebrating that hashem is with us he'll never leave us alone never forsake us he might give us a patch once in a while but it's all out of love it's something that wants us to wake up and serve him the right way so that is the great holiday of poor that no matter what the circumstances are hashem will not forsake us even the jew sinned at that time not going to what the sin was exactly but they uh were put through that strain of thinking of the decree from the king to kill all the jews they did shuver and they repented and hashem made a great miracle and that's what we're celebrating and we celebrate this year also we've gone through a lot it's true but hashem was with us those people who passed away they went to a very good place they will be in ghanaiden they'll be it is forever eternal life happiness even though they struggled a little bit in this world but the eternal plan of hashem is the jewish people will be his nation always with great reward great love from hashem and we'll look back and see it was all worth it so the person who goes through a difficult time in his life and then looks back was all worth it whatever he had to struggle in order to get to the place he got to it wasn't easy but once he gets it looks back was all worth it that's how we have to look at our life the history of the jewish people and the future of the jewish people that we hope hashem won't have to give us any nudges anymore we'll be able on our own to realize what we have to do and do it with fine colors and won't have any choice any longer but whatever happened till now we thank hashem and we celebrate that we're the nation of hashem forever failed and for everybody very happy hope everybody will be in a very good mood this whole month of our door and celebrate the way we should have a very happy point everybody you