Project Inspire Convention 2018: Purim - The Dream of the Yalkut HaGershuni Explaining Esther's Fast

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we're here at this wonderful shabbos experience at project inspire at the crowne plaza in connecticut i want to share with you a tremendous vart which is on the megillah relevant to purim how about lay no time let's begin with the passage where esther tells mordechai vitsumo alai fast for me so i was learning with my son yehuda tonight we learned a beautiful shot from the safer pane raza one of the great we shine him on the masters of ramez says the paneer because from this passage we see that by fasting three days and three nights they were able to be mavat al-hamad the pasik says in partial they were afflicted they were starved and he fed you as haman the man but this pasta could be read as follows when you starved yourself and you were hungry you know what you're able to do by you know what you're able to accomplish by starving and through your hunger you're able to consume and eat up hamon and destroy haman this is a remis that by fasting three days and three nights they're able to destroy haman well this is similar to the remes that we know that according to the seifer hattiesby our gerson is the gerson of the safer hattiesby is that hamano is alluded to in the month okay let's continue i'm going to tell you of art now from the alcott where he writes toy dolla kelly esparas that i thanked him this vart was nisgala to me in a dream what did esther mean that sumo alive fast upon me fast for me what do you mean for me they were fasting uh for on behalf of all claudio israel we know the gemara says in holland testament base ester menace where zero ramez to esther the pastor says he hasta astor pannai that hashem will hide his face from us on that day esther says that this epic this this period in history that kaiser was experiencing was the period of hester panim so esther says we need to fast because this is what the remnants of is referring to sumo alai this is the massive that we find ourselves in now and that is what we need to fast for okay let's continue the uh quoted by the hershoni says what does it mean fast for me he says an incredible shot when rivkah tells the aqua vino dress up like asav and go steal the baha'i yaakov says what's going to happen maybe my father will feel me and i'll be in his eyes like an imposter so rifka responds oh i killed let the curse be on me says tiger monklis lee benevola hashem told me with prophecy that you need to do this likewise esther was faced with the following dilemma the dilemma was if we fast now for three days they're going to be mavato pesach as apostate says how are they allowed to do that therefore esther says sumu a lie the same way when rifko said a lie it's elias ahmad she was told with prophecy when esther says sumo allah what you're saying is i'm not making this up god told me to do this is and finally let me tell you about cipher what does it mean if they're going to fast of course they're not going to eat and they're not going to drink some soy foreign what is a tightness a tightness is not to eat kosevas hagasa a large fig well it is mavur that that as we know that is the share of achilles on yom kippur however the opinion of the shekinah is like the rush that we pass skin what is the tightness not more than a kazayas why but if the shear of fascism keepers kosava sagasa why does the skin like the rash that the shear of tightness is kazyas the answer is that the macharis from this passage it's not enough tsumulai where the shear is a larger shira of course but besides that vial of the lashes so this is a lemon in halacha that we learned from this pasta and the shira is even smaller sheer to zayas you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com