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PURIM: Book of Esther #1 - Secrets Behind The Book of Esther
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On the Holiday of Puirm, we read the Book of Esther. In depth learning of the Megillat Esther - verse by verse, Rabbi Eli Benveniste takes us on a journey revealing the Secrets Behind The Text of the Book of Esther - Primarily based on the classic works and teachings of the Vilna Gaon - This is Class #1, the Introduction. To buy the book of Esther Hebrew with English translation and commentaries https://amzn.to/3Y2rmri
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mini series on the megillah
I thought maybe we might try and do it
every year we'll see how it goes now you
know we want to do things solid
by the way yeah yeah okay yeah let me
get that yesterday now yeah
uh a short hug them up which might take
up the whole of the day but we'll see
how it works
um we're gonna learn I said I told
yaakov I don't know if it hasn't been
advertised or whatever I don't know how
I know about it but
foreign
wrote many things one of them was a
parish on the Magilla tester heavily
based on the kadman
it's very it's similar but but different
he also like it was a uh earlier even a
few hundred years before the villain
gone
the monogamous
right but we're not you know we're not
dealing with capitalistic Concepts or
these things anything now
before we go through the actual you know
took him I want to just show
why it's important to know every person
we could say look you know let's just
fly through the mcgillah get a basic
idea join me in the beginning of it it's
like a bit boring about the whole party
almost let's get the exciting parts of
the play you know I mean the Intrigue
you know Big Time Terrace
you know some bits of it are not so
interesting so first I want to explain
why it's important to see every person
to learn the sucking life through that's
number one
uh apart from obviously the fact that
we're learning you know it's limout
but I'm saying specifically over here if
you want to do this we want to do it as
as best we can every person
secondly
um I also want to understand the
uniqueness of the Miracles of Purim
yeah of the Nissan
within the sea right the Nissan took
place in The Proven story what's unique
about this as opposed to other great
events
all these things I mean all times of you
out and and miracles Etc
um and thirdly what is the message this
is not necessarily but what we take out
from the you know from Purim what's the
message that you know that we we need to
learn from here practical message that
we need to learn from here so and we
need to internalize now
um
says there's a different opinions if you
have to the middle to read the whole
thing from beginning to the end and you
have to read Kula the whole Mitzvah is
to read the whole megillah in public
from beginning to the end right that's
the mitzvah and the
the reason being so listen to this
system underground says this is on the
third uh
he explains that this
um
he says
he explained when you see when you see
in a minute what is explaining that we
say it seems seeing things that seem
seemingly irrelevant right when the God
says
you know just um being poetic but
that's going to be our Guiding Light do
you understand we'll see a lot of the
time if not I'd say every time we can
see in the gone but he he tries to
follow this through the every Pursuit
that's why I want that's the number one
I say well every person is important
apart from Tamil Torah is because
we want to learn it it's going to be
telling us something another piece in
the puzzle of the nest that's why it's
so important to go through rather than
just you know fly through it be nice but
if we're already learning it yeah let's
learn it decent I said that's number one
number two
what is so special about the Magilla
um
the rambam there's a famous rambam the
end of that actually says that's what he
said the rivals he argues but the rambam
says that all of the kituvim and he says
even the Vietnam
we won't learn it anymore that's what he
seems to say it says that it can't be
we're lonely it's part of the Tanakh how
can it be it just means
maybe it won't be learned as much as
opposed to other things whatever but
and he says
everything even if the rambam says that
everything else will be learned he says
is going to remain touched by pear but
all the only thing is going to remain
that's a big statement well right based
on the thing in Michelin it's the
majority
what was that supposed to mean right
it's always something about the megillah
right that's so uh
um so special now
one of the the things that you're unique
about megilla is it took place in
this salvation took place right
everything else that we know it's yeah
right even though it's yummy Triumph
there was you know when there was
intimate time there was open Miracles
right with open Miracles open miracles
um Hanukkah took place was also open
miracles in the time the betterment
Israel right
Magilla took place between the two bats
as it were and secondly they were all
hidden miracles
the little hessed upon him there are no
big open miraculous battles like
for sure not nothing now the rest of my
court do you mean and and the shirt you
know there's none of that right none of
that
the um
in fact if you look inside the whole
Purim story was over nine years
nine years when it starts beginning
we'll see from the third year of the
reign of
and then when we saw the whole thing
with Haman even though that actual thing
goes very quick you'll see literally no
the actual well once in Hamman comes and
decides what he does etc it's a few days
the whole thing right over pesach time
and then to actually send re-send out
the letters you know I mean to all the
Medina's to retract or ever when the
Jewish people come defend themselves it
was in Sivan I mean that happens very
quick but between that everything we go
from beginning and the big party we're
going to see and then vashti and then
Esther and then this is the whole thing
was over nine year period that's a long
time right so even if you're up to date
with the news you understand you're
reading the newspapers you're getting
regular emails Facebook social media
YouTube yeah whatever you want I don't
know and you're watching the whole time
you wouldn't have helped this woman
comes in I mean you know this one became
prime minister he kicked him out I mean
this one now there was an uprising in
Peru and you understand it was it was
like new regular you know things
happening and I think uh
earth-shattering you know what I'm
saying no create yams of no Revelations
of Mount Sinai none of this business
just regular news you know I'm saying
that you know the the sushinabira post
who I'm going to call it you know I mean
daily thing that's what it was
so the um
and yet the the whole time the
representative he says I never actually
found it in the gown on the Magilla it
must be somewhere else he says these
hidden Miracles Hashem is manipulating
people's minds
right we'll see his way through we go
through even the first peric how people
said things and did things that one
minute before and then they would never
say a minute after they didn't know why
they said it why they did it and no and
it was all happening and it was all like
you said just seemed to be just things
happening right as it were happening
these hidden Miracles
so that is is to answer the second thing
why the mcgillah and Purim right are
unique what's unique about it again it's
these things it was in there was a heft
upon him now the villagan actually
explains in this piece of it he brings a
martial
[Applause]
he says the following thing he says a
king had his only son which he cherished
that apple of his eye loved his son yeah
he was going to be the heir of the
throne
and he had you know ministers who didn't
take a liking to his son they thought
you know they might be able to usurp him
when he becomes it and they were you
know waiting for the opportunity anyway
they didn't have to wait for long the
sun messed around due to things that
teenagers do you know whatever he did
they said now he wasn't the king or very
upset he decided he has to teach him a
lesson he's gonna you know banish him
from the palace send him out you know
out into you know somewhere far off in
the Medina and leave him be and then you
know them rethink his ways right we love
this son and he was you know he wanted
him to realize what he did wrong but he
didn't want anything to happen to him
you know he was a prince he wasn't used
to living out in the sticks or you know
sent him out into some Forest somewhere
so so he um
so he sent some of his uh you know some
of the Shabbat you know whatever you
know some of the you know the FBI we're
going to call them people have a
security Personnel to keep an eye on him
but at a distance they should just be
around you understand
um a hidden police type thing you know
under under whatever under undercover
yeah undercover police to watching over
him fine
and it was also right because he knew
the king wasn't stupid he knew there
were some of the ministers that you know
who didn't like this uh this Prince this
young prince and they had it in for him
and therefore he said also to make sure
to you know look make sure it's all
right physically harming fine but the
the son had no idea he was clueless he
just known his father mama was nasty to
him threw him out and there he was
somewhere in some Forest somewhere
um feeling down and out and he didn't
know what to do you know he had a bit of
money he had a bit of a
excuse me he had um
close with him Etc basic necessities
and he um well it says my own business
and then he was walking through the
forest
and he heard this
noise right turn against knows what
happened
this huge grizzly bear
is running towards him now people in
America like grizzly bears if they're in
a bad mood it's not a good thing right
pretty dangerous yeah no apparently if
they go up on all on their hind feet
they can be like two three meters high
they're like one swipe and that's the
end of year yeah they're very dangerous
and he's like petrified and he like
froze from shock
I didn't even know what to do and then
like out of nowhere you know there was
some some like Hunter was like riding
past on his horse shoots you know the
bear shoots at the bear and gallops off
wow what Stroke of Luck you know what I
mean
um
Breeze also what really yeah
and he um anyway fine so you know a bit
traumatized it carries on and he said
that uh then he goes he finds his way
I'm just elaborating a bit on the ground
he found his way to you know some town
and um he's walking around he's running
out of money and there was someone you
know coming up behind him
like he saw was like some sort of Thug
was gonna you know to attack him right
and last minute he goes around you see
this guy coming on him and then some guy
comes out of the back alley you know
hits the guy off knocks him off ticks
hits him to the ground and he tells the
guy to get lost he only tells the son to
rather the prince to run off and he runs
for his life
anyway and you know and things were
happening they said now he ran out of
money and then someone bumped into him
and said who are you what's up and it's
all down and now he said hey take a few
hundred dollars you know and he you know
and he was just going from one place a
thousand after a few months it like
dawned upon him like what's going on
over here I mean the grizzly bear and
then this guy attacks me and then all of
a sudden the guy gives me money oh and
then he helped he realized that he
really was going on you know I mean and
he think he wanted it when you know the
guy that saved him in the town do you
think he recognized the guy's face you
know where do you know him from and he
goes oh he's one of the guys in the
bandage I mean he helped he was so all
of a sudden he's like oh you know his
father and he's like he realizes wow I
mean even though his father threw him
out he he cares about him he's looking
after him you know and he felt such a
strong pull to his father and he
realized that's it you know right he's
gonna put his socks up that's it and
he's going back to the palace and happy
ever after as they say yeah that's the
Marshall could be elaborated on for like
you know the next three weeks but we'll
leave it for the afternoon now so it's
going to go on that is what that that
sums up the poem story
we messed up we went into Gallup
I was serious when
the power summer diet took over from
Ibraham and we were suffering right
below
we were suffering where we all became a
simulator we know with the Ezra so far
right
it was terrible yeah I was suffering
there and
um
because after things we weren't supposed
to do you know tried our best but things
you know and we need to do children we
need to do teshuva and Hashem
showed through the program story when
they say Monica and Esther realized
after this nine-year period and they
wrote the Magilla which is
right that they and the Generation all
realized
wow Hashem is with us albeit we can't
see there's no splitting of the sea
which says no miracle there's no you
know
but Hashem is here Hashem is with us she
understand and and that's what it says a
famous line in the pasook the end of
magilas
right which is the Jewish people accept
upon themselves the Pursuits talking
about
excuse me the in the middle and Purim
and
Gila but the the gomoran Shabbat says
they accepted upon themselves what they
accepted already that which they
accepted the house
Hashem said you better accept the Torah
or not
Purim time they accepted
says because they they commitment when
they saw how much Hashem loves them it
became also in the penny dropped and
they realized we still like he said in
the story wow they saw the whole nine
years and now I saw this happened and
happened and everything with this puzzle
it all worked perfectly to the you know
to the Salvation they were in awestruck
therefore they took on the Mishra
and it says
explained this there's a medrish in um
in measures of Ruby smile that says that
from the mcgillah which was just before
the the time of the primary story which
was going into going back to buy Cheney
that was the time of hundreds of years
there was this Hashem LED down a shepher
of toshibaulted
all the great name was all started in
that period of King of the people of the
poem story yeah it was I'm phenomenal
because they had such this armor towards
Hashem they became completely devoted
back to Hashem
it was unbelievable right
yeah so that is that is why the Magilla
is so unique
now the message
the message we learned from this Mr
random experience our common way is now
exactly where in the room I have to find
it is basically that we say this so many
we say about I worked I think six times
in chocolate
yeah
on the day that we call out and the
rambam says that is what we learned from
Purim that we said in the Passover
is so close to us because
there's no one like after the Jewish
people we have a direct line so
according that is and Robert just picked
this out and it's safer is the message
of Purim and we which we get from The
Giver right give us the story or at the
beginning to realize that Hashem is here
prayer Works doubling works hashem's
there he's listening reacts
right it's there it's true right because
what happened over there we'll see when
Bradley explains that you know they
didn't do anything they didn't do any
even with Esther in the Palestine she
went in we'll see later Tom with with
but they did nothing all the Jewish
people said right said fast and doesn't
that's all they did they didn't do
anything they didn't say I was going
this one trying that one and talking to
this one and you know bribing that one
nothing Daven Daven Daven that's all
they did we'll see again and again
especially towards the end when Astra
was going into this and that all the
Jewish people were governing nothing
else and they saw it worked right and
the rambun right
I spoke here a few weeks ago I don't
know if you were listening we listened
to what he said he says amazing rambun
and looked it up in parashat
when moshirabenu said he heard this when
moshabbin asked Hashem what should I say
to the I'm watching the clock the
lasting Lafayette well
um said
understood all right and come on
that when when moshebenu said what um
what should I say is the name of you
know the name they want to know Hashem a
name he said yeah I will be right so as
she says he said it twice I'll be using
this is
Adam so so he says what does that mean
so apparently what do you mean I will be
so the the ramban explains that that is
the biggest proof
that Hashem exists that we govern and
we're answered that in for in terms of
real terms for us right
now is the biggest proof that College
Park exists and as Moshe and they want
to know what's how they know it's true
how do you know it's true Hashem said
hey yeah I will be they're governing you
see they're doubling and crying out to
me the Goon is going to come that's from
the biggest proof they've been doubling
and dampening and I'm going to show them
Yeshua hey yeah I'm going to be there
that's the biggest proof that's ramban
says unbelievable no yeah I mean so that
just explains even more what we mean
over here when then when um
uh when we re-accepted the toraham
became totally directed to a college
Borough like we said it it said it was
going to go downstairs when they had to
tremendous Hashem it was first we
realized you understand that Hashem
loves him so much and was with them but
then really they were doubling doubling
they answered so Hashem was like as
clear as day Hashem is here Hashem is
here do you understand that was it just
like Hashem told them in mitzrayim and
that was supposed to give them oh and
we're going to die we're going to see
Hashem that's the Hashem exists so to
over here they saw it and then they felt
it and therefore they were covered they
wrote themselves to the thing all right
so we did that next week we'll go
through uh we'll run through them okay
next time we'll get going