Purim: Destroying Amalek - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

progress okay good evening everyone welcome everyone we're continuing our series of sh which are generously dedicated by Dr are dedicated by the Yom toian family of Great Neck in memory of Miriam Bas Rael who yard side is T inar tonight share is dedicated by Miss for the return of alone Ben to he returned to to his family safe and well tonight sh is dedicated by shim and Su sham Zada in honor of their daughter's engagement and their okay we have amazing share tonight we're almost uh we're almost there the second to last share before pm and as we get closer to PM PM of course is now before we start just want to make sure that everybody has your uh important material for the so make sure you have the concealed and the revealed it's available in uh sparm stores you can get it at artscroll.com and not only that but back in print is the small edition of the concealed and revealed because this fits right into your Shas in other words you have the bottle of wine you have your H but you have your miniature concealed and revealed that's the big question um also the safe for is back in print it's available Farm Stores or on our site with free shipping okay there's a very interesting Hala regarding sudas so we know that there's a lot of discussion about uh what time sudas is this here but in terms of how it starts the tells us sud it is good to engage a little bit in learning before the suda begins before you start your suda you should learn something so many people they walk into their suda they're already a little tipsy a little bit laded but make sure start your sud with a little bit of learning the hint to this practice the Jews had light and joy is and after then then you could have the suda so before you get started you should learn something now the Raad doesn't say what to learn what are you going to learn you don't have to do the concealed and the revealed you could do uh the ha you could do any any safer you want you could learn whatever you want the Raad does not legislate what should be learned however there's another interesting the other is that you start learning before P 30 days that's the beginning the first say so if you start learning before 30 days when do you start learning you start on PM itself so it comes out there are two reasons to learn on Pam one before you start your suda you want to begin with learning and the remes is first and then and then the sud and number two there's another reason to learn on because you have to start learning before P 30 days before so you have two independent obligations to learn on PM number one to learn before sudas pm number two to learnes in his he says well if there's a mitvah to learn before sud and there's a Mitzvah to learn before P 30 days so says you could kill two birds with one stone you know it's not like you have to learn twice you need to learn before the P begins number two you need to learn so if you combine the two learn before the okay that learning is so important on that you know if um there there is something called like a totem pole there's an order of priority when it comes to answering shilas so let's say you know the the rabbi sitting there at the stender and let's say it's tuat and two people come with a Shila one guy has a Shila one guy has a so which one gets precedence you answer you answer the one that that's asking a timely question the one that's asking some you know then you you know he doesn't have priority you ask you have two guys one guy you know he it's it's an end of life issue you know he's about to go he wants to know the other guy has a question about his grandson who wasn't born's yet Bar Mitzvah you know so which one do you answer you if you answer the guy about his grandson's Bar Mitzvah when the when his son wasn't even born yet the the guy who has a end of life issue he's going to already be in the by the time you get to him so it's always important to know which Shiloh you answer first so says on puram itself if you have two people asking a sh one has a sh about M or has a the other that has a p which one has precedents do we say PM obviously today's PM or do you say the obligation to start learning before PM is learned out of a it's maybe maybe it's biblical to learn 30 days before P it's we learn it out from perhaps and therefore maybe is so important on it even has priority over bottom line is here it is you're about to start your perm suda and there's a lot of good food coming you have a Entre you have an odor you have a soup you have an entree you have dessert whoa wait a second we have to learn P I mean is it does that really is that a reasonable thing to do is that going to put you in the pur mood to start off the pur sud with P wait wait a second yeah right everyone's all joyous about about all the food that's coming so just to make sure that you know your wife's in a lousy mood before the P sud starts you remind her that the second that this is over we have to start scraping the chairs you know which are you going to learn yeah that we have to like remove the floorboards to make sure there's noet underneath why what's the appropriateness of learning before sud I understand you have to learn 30 days before I understand it comes out on P but that that should overtake the entire Pur sud that the P sud should begin by learning is that an appropriate subject matter like what's the relevance of the subject matter of you know there's an amazinger wants to know what is the status of the days after until the end of we know that a is a ominous month it's a bad it's a month of bad fortune is that only until TSH or is it the whole month of a so the says the whole month of even after says the same way the whole month of ad is is a good omen the same way the whole month of is a good Ma so too the whole month of a is a bad Ma that's the opinion of to which says you can compare the end of to the end of Adar first of all the end of Adar is sandwiched between pm and pesak so it's still good times after PM but once Tish is over the bad Omen is over so you can't say it's a time of bad Ma after T but then the says something even more than that he says you can't compare after pm to after a you know why after PM is still a good masle cuz since there's a they have to start learning before P 30 days before say a beautiful we want spoke about this and we offered a different understanding so that means that pesak is stretching out its arms it's saying learn me learn me learn me and its arms are stretching out until when says comes out and PES are hugging each other isn't that a beautiful Lon isn't that just like touching that it comes out since there's a they have to start learning 30 days before P it comes out that pm and pesak are embracing each other so that's an interesting Embrace that's an interesting relationship the relationship of so maybe we would like to explore why is it appropriate to learn on I mean if you would see somebody learning on you would think that's unusual that's strange if somebody was learning or but to learn on what is the appropriateness of doing that but we see that there's a relationship there's a connection there's a deep relationship between pm and P they hug each other usually days don't hug each other you know are you do does Tuesday hug Wednesday today's Tuesday it's not hugging it's not hugging Wednesday does you know hug um P I don't think so does hug Tiner I don't think so but p and p hug each other in fact R when we legislate when we ordain pm and we want to know should P be an or so what does the say the opinion is we want to ju deposed Redemption to Redemption what are the two redemptions Rashi says p and p as if there's some kind of connection between p and PES what's the connection between pm and P PM happened you know after the Jews left MIM they in the mid birth for 40 years were in arel for 440 years built the first base of mdash for 410 years and then 70 years later there was purm pesak was many hundreds of years earlier they don't seem to have anything to do with each other yet there's a mandate that we have to Jose pm and P furthermore the says the son said the name of R just like when the month of a comes in we diminish Joy so too when the month of AD comes in you know the song RAF you sing the song go very good rash when the month of comes in we increase our joy so if I were to ask you in which month do we increase our joy we say Rashi says why do we increase our joy in it's days of Miracles P ad is a very joyous month pm and P what's the obvious question on Rashi why is it bringing anything what does PES have do with anything we're talking about Adar why is Rashi saying we Rejoice an because of p p is not an ad you knew that P is a Nissan so why are we saying because of in fact says we see from applies to andan okay when Esther Was preparing herself to go into she was very hesitant she tells M you know I don't want to do it it's not for me it's not for a nice Jewish girl I can't do it don't make me do it and ultimately Mor convinced us her to do it he tells her if you're going to be quiet now now listen very carefully said if you're going to be quiet now then God will send salvation of Jewish people from somewhere else and you will be destroyed how did morai know she needs to go now what was special about now that she needed to go now what's the rush it's a of pesak now they have a whole year until the gazer goes into effect they could have done it any other time why was it so important that she went in now says the medish what was Esther doing at the time what good deed was she doing at the time that this good deed protected her look in the med number 11 you know what Esther was doing in preparation to going in she was standing around with the local sanitation of Persia and they were saying step back step back no flammables you know they're they're telling her be careful be careful only you have to unwrap your 10 pieces from the silver foil you could throw in your Lula but no plastic bags Esther was doing beer what was Esther doing when she was getting ready to go into she was burning her here it is the entire CL Israel their lives are on the line the she really want to smell like kerosene going into that's the Mitzvah she wants to do there's no I could think of cleaner Mitzvah if you have to go into the king the last thing you want to do is be heres that's he's going to he's going to she's going to walk in she he's going to ask her you know what what did you just do you know where did you just go you at a campfire or something and what is Esther doing in preparation for meeting be you ready for this here we go this shabas shabas shabas we read about destroying amalik why are we reading about destroying amalik the shabas why are we reading about theik the shabas for what reason and everyone's going to come to sh and they're going to make very scary announcements you have to hear every word and you have to listen carefully and if you make any noise then you're not going to be the Mitzvah what are we doing at there shabas why not last chabas why don't we do it some other time in the year anyway we read we read k at the end of the year we're going to read it in in El so why can't we wait until then well we have to read it again we're we're doing it once a year we do it once a year we do it in we did it in bash why do we have to read about and why do we read about aik only once a year because it says Z It also says remember that we left Egypt and Egypt we remember every day so why do we only remember amalik once a year says we have a tradition we were redeemed in Nissan and we're destined to be redeemed in Nissan before we're redeemed we need to destroy amalik so if the G and the B is going to be built in Nissan then we need to make sure amik is destroyed before Nissan so therefore we have to read about destroying so what we're doing this shabas is in preparation for what's going to happen in Nissan in Nissan we're going to build the B mikdash the G will come and in Adar we will destroy amalik so since destroying amalik is in preparation for the G which doesn't happen every day we only have to remember amalik once a year but it says say all the days of your life so you have to remember that daily but you only need to remember once a year in preparation for the G so think about it in order for the Gula to come we have to destroy amalik when do we destroy amalik so most people would say I guess on chabas so you're saying all you need to do is read zah and that's it and he's done he's gone how long does it take to destroy amalik we start by reading the parik however you ready for the now as we get closer to you know the yard site is the first day you could read the so your Al is what Tuesday Monday night something like that and the says something out of this world he says Esther when she was preparing to go into a to save CL from hon she was burning theet why was she burning theet why do we burn the kets you ever think about that why do we burn the we have to be we have to burn the we have to render it ownerless we have to search for in the nooks and the crannies we have to we have to clean and we have to scrape and we have to sell it I mean we can't look at it we can't remember it we can't think about it why what is the embody embodies the the purpose of be is to be M thear and the who's the sitra hamik be your is the final blow to am be is not oh by the way p is coming so you not eat so you have to make sure to burn the no no no destroying amik Begins by reading and it culminates with the burning of the is the embodiment of the sit and so actually destroying amik begins with and it culminates with destroying and burning the on ER of P so that the G could come on PES so per and P are not two random that happen to come out within 30 days of each other p is the beginning of the process which culminates with ER of p and ushers in the of P so actually burning thez is the grand finale of destroying am that began on sayot which are a commentary on and and in his commentary to he brings something amazing from the you know we have a tradition that the B mikdash is going to be built on the first day of and we cannot build a bikash until you destroy am and then in that case when will amik be completely destroyed amik will be completely destroyed when the night of the 14th says but what that means is do you think it's a coincidence that am will be destroyed the night of the 14th and that's the time we does no by destroying thees that delivers the final knockout below to am and then the brings the great tradition that he has from his great great grandfather the if you look at number 20 in the and in the the brings the great tradition of of myi zik his great great grandfather rulai who says we know that when the Jews were in Egypt they were on almost the 50th level of T however in the 30 days before P each day God to takes took out the Jewish people from one level of T so on day one he took them out 13th of the T on day two the 2 30th on day three the third 30th and every year annually 30 days before pesak God starts to take out the souls of the Jewish people from T 1 30th on the first day another 30th on the second day another 30th on the third day annually every single year the takes out the Jewish people another increment another 30th of from the levels of Tuma until AR of PES we are at the precipice of kadus and am Falls and we're ready for it is not a it's not a coincidence oh yeah we have a tradition that the G will happen in p and we happen to burn on a of p and there happens to be a y 30 days before and we happen to read parar and there are all these like unconnected rituals that really have nothing to do with each other no there is a progression there's a progression where PM leads up to PES Pur begins a process the process is the destruction of am which begins with and it culminates when we burn the on AR P you know what the T says about AR P remember the the says on the Mas is destroyed on a of PES the forces of evil are eradicated on a of PES am is gone am is annihilated on AR P it's not just on Pur we annihilate am on we start the process we culminate it culminates on AR of PES therefore you know why you know what protected Esther as she went in front of a to plead with him to save the Jewish people from Ham the fact that Esther was burning thees was annihilating the force of T of H it's not a coincidence that Esther was burning theet in preparation to save the Jewish people from H burning theit is what empowered Esther to overcome the forces of T of ham if you want to know how did we overcome ham by burning the KET hum is theet so go back to when Mor her she shouldn't SI up was she already burning it or was she going to burn it or it doesn't mean that she was aware even she wasn't aware it's not like she went to burn the to destroy H but orchestrated that should she she should be involved in burning the as a way of protecting her and from the danger of H this is the idea of the that take a look at number 18 we know that theam swears by his throne that he is at war against am but take a look at the dates given so one remes the says is is those are the two days of is and but it's also you know when is going to fall you know when son in fact the says an amazing G is you know when there's a war against the in fact this idea that amik will be completely eradicated on a of p is sourced in the in the where he says the of is so we view it there's a of there's a of P they have nothing to do with each other one is a day you dress up in costumes you're going to dress up like uh I don't know who uh the old Administration the new Administration you could dress up like Biden you could dress up like Elan whoever you want to dress up as that's up to you and then after you give out the shus then you immediately throw everything in the garbage the next day so that you could clean for PES you know there's one yum called p and there's one yum called p and they have nothing to do with each other in fact we need to clean clean PM away before we begin preparing for pesak no there is this time period that begins with purm it comates with P but these two days are linked so profoundly that they're literally hugging each other you know they're embracing each other it's a period that begins on PM We Begin the eradication ofik on pm and it culminates on P in fact there's a saer that's published by rakov H called where he brings from rakov grandson of Who quotes another that the the and the are the a that we destroy on the 14th of Nissan and the a over here is a reference to like says the are in fact ready for thisa com again he's a descendant of the he wrote many many and paths called and he says the gatria of the entire P the numerical value of the whole is I knew you I knew you thought of that first yeah okay the gatri of the whole PK of is it will happen when the Gul comes on a of also okay here we go you ready fasten your seat belts in many ha and in our ha the art hag I wanted to make sure sure that it included something that I don't think was ever put in the art there's a letter written by ra of as that is considered uh a suula that if you say it on a of pesak you'll live out the year and your enemies will all have a downfall and whatever you do you'll be successful and everything good will happen basically if you in number 21 I breing I bring a excerpt of the closing of this letter of he says after the heavens notified me of this secret anyone who analyzes this wondrous secret even once a year especially you are guaranteed you're going to be saved during that year from any stumbling block or unusual death and any mishap your enemies will not rule over you and all your your adversaries will fall under your feet wherever you turn you will be successful so apparently this letter is a special suula for the downfall of your enemies now what day is it ConEd mug to say this P says some say it during the day of P some say it Le there H why do you think there's a speciala to eradicate your enemies and the forces of evil on era pesak cuz that is the day of the year which is the complete downfall of the es of evil it began par Zar it got a big head start on P and it comes to culmination on the day that says and when it says about when gives you then meaning there are certain predisposed times during the year that you know the re is giving you special strength to eradicate your enemy if you want to know what day of the year is most predisposed to eradicate the Jewish enemies era of PES starts Z it culminates P so my friend I see he's here gave me a inesh and in English a p on this letter of of as it's called from one of the r in and he says this will open up a new Vista of understanding of what Mor tells Esther in the M think about the date it's AR says to Esther dear if you're going to be silent now today era of P God will save us but if you don't take advantage of this opportunity today on ER of pesak when it's our best chance to knock come on out you will go down in the annals of history as a failure because Now's the Time it's now or never how did morai know that has to go in today AR of PES because it's AR of PES and AR of Pak is the most designated time a year to destroy the enemies of the Jewish people so says for the same reason why M told Esther take advantage of the day of er P that's why recommended the recitation of this specifically on AR of PES so you know until you put this together you DEC compartmentalize P there's this F of it's a weak you put on your costume you destroy okay finished now we're up to P we're not going to eat and we're anticipating Gul but we don't see that these two days are literally embracing each other p is step one and PES is the knockout punch the process begins par Zar we begin to read to destroy am we knock him out more by reading the m and the process like the explains begins on p on pem takes us out one level of Tom from the weakens of one level and on the next day he weakens him another level the says in the why is it that just because in niss hasem redeemed us the first time he's going to redeem us again inan because annually every year hasem weakens the forces of T beginning 30 days before PES beginning on PM itself culminating with a of PES do you think it's appropriate to learn p on PM nothing could be more appropriate when you're eating your suda to celebrate the beginning of the downfall of ham we say Reish let's just knock him out already you know we're so to speak we have our eye on the Finish Line we have our eye on the target the target is early we're already learning at the what an unusual thing to learn on PM It's Not Unusual at all PM is the day we start the process and we already have our eye on the objective which is to completely obliterate aik and that takes place when we burn him we annihilate him a of p and once we annihilate him then the occurs the night of p and do you think it's a coincidence that when we burn the even though all you need to do is burn one piece but in so many households the custom is to have 10 pieces of bread why 10 many smarm bring that the 10 pie of bread correspond to the where we have to make sure that there's nothing left of these guys and the process that we began on PM we said you have to make sure you know they all you knock them all out and we uh they come to full uh destruction on era of p and that's the the flow beginning with this shabas we start the process we read the M we knock him out more in the 30 days each day the is knocked out more he's completely destroyed a of Pik happens on P itself so you say when do we inaugurate the B we can't inaugurate it on P so that's why conveniently there's seven days left after p in Nissan those seven days are reserved for the inauguration of the third B mikdash so it comes out says every single day of Nissan is accounted for as a special day not to say the first 12 days the N brought their carbon day 13 there many reasons for that if PES comes out on chabas day 13 was the third day of the ofu p p itself B is built on PD is inaugurated and the final seven days after pesak so already from the beginning of is and this shab already we continue in Greater intensity the principle of let the good times roll they start on chabas andem we hope they come to full culmination with the complete destruction of the and theik and the in the end of have a wonderful night okay