Let the Good Times Roll - The Divine Irony of Purim Begins

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good vck everyone I know it's a little warm in the room one thermostat says 71 one thermostat says 74 so it's about 145° in here whatever happens in the world is of great significance nothing is coincidental and the timing of when events occur are also all y are all divinely orchestrated this Thursday the president of Argentina declared it should be a day of national mour because of the return of the bodies of the bias's children the par the family had some kind of citizenship in Argentina and therefore he declared it should be a day of mourning for Argentina so what does that mean for CLA Israel if Jewish children we were hoping somehow some way would still be alive that they should be returned on Thursday what's the significance that this happened on this particular day when the month of enters we increase our joy when exactly does this begin you know many people don't like this recommendation that they have to be happy a lot of people enjoy being grouchy people find it easier to be sad and grouchy and grumpy people don't like to be told you have to be happy it like it makes them sad to be happy they're happier being grouchy so the good news is there's a very lenient opinion of when this is supposed to begin says begins not on the first day of on the second day because the first day is still sh the second day is so don't worry you still have until shabas to remain grouchy you could still hold on just a little bit longer however the opinion of the Begins by the M by the m the m is this Thursday so you'll have to start being happy already Thursday however already begins which already began today so already starting today we have to increase our joy so that that means like that this shabas begins a new chapter of the Year this shabas begins a new era of the Year beginning today we have to increase our joy that means whatever happened until now that was from the past chapter of the year that was part of and we diminish we diminish we diminish until Thursday AR of shabas already is in preparation for shabas so said look there's this bad B there's bad news but that's part of last year that's part of before wanted to make sure that you know Rashi says why because these are miraculous days for the Jewish people that begins starting today whatever news we heard Thursday that was part of prior to but starting today K tell us let the good times roll we anticipate we yearn to see great miracles for the Jewish people I would like to share with you a very important perspective of migil sester it's a perspective that is not commonly pointed out and it's a type ofh that we see not only in the Milla but throughout world history okay we're going to learn a little English today we're going to start with a little bit of an English lesson the final the final P or the final anything is called ultimate how do you say second to last in English pen pen ultimate pen ultimate okay that's a good start how about third to last third to last okay it's a good thing I came tonight you'll learn something third to last anti penultimate okay anti penultimate all right it was worthwhile to come just to hear that what is the anti penultimate taxes the people of what relevance is it that taxes the people does this really need to be in the story of Pim does this really need to be included in the Milla why do I care that a tax the people I'm not even interested in the current tax program of the United States of America I need to know the ancient program of taxes in Persia and media this is included in the Milla doesn't the Milla tell us that it's not a history book if you want the rest of the story you want historical background you want the palace Intrigue it's written in the chronicles of Persia media but whatever is included in the Milla was included for one reason and one reason onlya so why does the Milla end that tax the people so I want to share with you a very important line of the gamarra all you need to learn is three words of the gamar and this will open up the entire book of MiG eser and the entire story of Pim and really world history the PK says that a couldn't sleep you know uh Mr bman mentioned that his father was able to fall asleep right away some people have a hard time sleeping the reason a couldn't sleep is because the Met tells us Gabriel came and he banged A's head on the floor 366 times and you know science has done many studies it's very hard to sleep if an angel bangs your head against against the floor 366 times it's very disturbing people need special sleep sleep machines and pills to overcome that it's hard to sleep and all of a sudden hamon is coming and the Milla says to tell the king to H on the tree that he prepared for him and the Milla says an extra word that he should just say on the tree that H prepared why does it have to say that he prepared it for him for Mor obviously he prepared for Mor says the he prepared it for himself he thought he was preparing it for morai but we all know he wasn't actually preparing it for morai he was preparing it for himself this is not just an isolated incident that Hon's plan backfired upon him but this is actually a paradigm of all the events of Miller where the hijacked and co-opted the plan of the Russia and used it to fire back right back at them let me give you just one example because I'm pressed for time they want me to go upstairs right after should I do the same thing we'll we'll see how this goes we'll see if it's good you know make sure they're not listening okay there's a very interesting narrative in the very beginning of the story has a problem with his wife he calls her he says come parade yourself Show Yourself Vash refuses s doesn't know what to do with his wife I don't know if you know about ancient history but when a queen didn't listen to the king the answer was very quick and coming the answer usually was there was a the next day King Henry King James they had many many wives they went through wives like you go through I don't know mishak magazine you know how you read it you know you doesn't know what to do with Vash so what does he do he calls the governors the Congress of Persia media why in the world is he asking the advice of the Congress what to do with Bashi he's a dictator he's the king of the world he needs to ask advice what to do with her why can't he do whatever he wants since when do ancient Kings ask the advice of a governing body of what to do with his wife if he wants if he has a trouble with his wife let him speak to a therapist maybe why is he taking this to Congress you know so the Miga says the Miga says listen carefully to these words the law in Persia was that when an issue was relevant to the king and he had a personal bias he couldn't call all the shots he couldn't make a unilateral decision he had to ask the advice of the governor that was the law that when something was relevant to the king he had to ask the advice of the governors so let's fast forward to the end of the story you know at the end of the story and the table turn and H and finds out that Esther is Jewish and is fuming and he steps outside and he comes back in and hon takes a misstep with Esther and is really angry and he doesn't know what to do with h so says you know look outside there's a Gallows looming in the background why don't you hang him and what does say to hang him what do you mean hang him this is relevant to the king why doesn't he have to take the matter to the governors of Persia media he couldn't make a unilateral decision in the beginning of the story how's he able to make the decision now says the V that's because there's a man by the name of You Know M made a new law m law that he proposed was from now on you call all the shots from now on you make all the decisions stop bringing the case to the governors and to the Congress from now on you make all the decisions who passed that law miman who's miman ham who gave a the capacity to make a unilateral decision ham thank you hamon you brought about your own demise because at the end of the story when is upset and suggest hang doesn't have to take the matter to the Congress if it went to the Congress then there would be a split vote and until they decided what to do but because H passed the law that makes all the decisions now cannot go h on his own so this is a perfect example of H thinks he's setting the table to destroy Mor he's setting the table to destroy himself you know there's a perfect example of this in thees I'm not available now in middle of the druss I'll call back later okay um there's this little baby adorable baby his name is Misha Misha was thrown into the Nile River by his mother because the Pharaoh made a decree any child that is born have to throw him into the river we're going to drown him parro heard from his astrologers that the Jewish savior is going to be born today parro said there will never be a Jewish savior I'm going to destroy the Jewish people and any hope they have for salvation and God is laughing is laughing parro you think you're going to destroy the Jewish savior watch this the pharaoh's own daughter is bathing in the Nile she sees the baby she knows she can't bring the baby inside it was against the law of the land but the baby's crying she had mercy on him she stretches out her arm she brings the baby in she brings the baby into the palace she's rocking the baby to sleep that night 2 a.m. the Pharaoh can't sleep he screams out to his daughter hey Basia what's the racket nothing Dad what's the baby what's the noise oh you have to see this baby the most adorable baby you've ever seen Pharaoh comes into basia's room she's rocking this baby she said dad do me a favor I'm really tired would you mind rocking the baby to sleep and the baby that the Pharaoh wanted to destroy he's rocking to sleep and at 3:00 a.m. the baby starving Bas said what what am I supposed to feed her par I don't know Bas says you know could you go out to CVS and get some formula okay who's going to pay for it put on your American Express card so the Pharaoh is Raising mha he's feeding mha he's paying for his education he's grooming him he's raising him you know Ezra asks here it is the the leader of the Jewish people is growing up under Pharaoh's Wing Pharaoh's Way raising M why did hasem orchestrate that parro should raise he says very simply because if par would have grown up with the rest of the Jewish people who were slaves he would have a slave mentality he would have low morale low self-esteem he would never be a leader so he had to grow up in the palace so the Pharaoh trained mosenu for royalty to be a king mosha was the king of the Jewish people who created mosenu par if not for par there never would have been a mha we wouldn't have to you know what it says in no it doesn't say that but without weu would not have been able to we wouldn't have Ty today we wouldn't have a Mal tonight there would be no Judaism there would be no T mitz Paro thought he was eradicating the Jewish savior Paro groomed raised and brought up the Jewish savior par thought he was bringing destruction to CLA Israel parro is responsible for all of our success let's come now to the end of the PM story but we have to fast forward a little bit you ever learned sa for Ezra and sa for Ezra talks about the return of the Jewish people to rebuild the second Bas of M the problem was that we couldn't afford it we had no money we were impoverished so we turn to the King of Persia we say King of Persia do us a favor could you help us fund the building of the second B mikdash he said uh what do you want from me make a charity campaign or something what no they said uh it wasn't invented yet do us a favor give us some money so you know the PK says that Darius dares opened up the Royal treasury the treasury of the taxes and he funded the building of the second B mikdash and I ask you where did Darius get all this tax money to rebuild the second you see the perm story ends attacks the people then drops dead now his son takes over his son has all the taxes he then opens up the treasury and funds the building of the second mikdash so watch how the perm story has come M Full Circle The Story begins that a is having a party celebrating the 70 years that the predicted that the temple would lay in Ruins and after 70 years they would return and rebuild the second mdash and they didn't says now the temple will remain in Ruins forever and ever it will never be rebuilt in other words it was a party celebrating the Eternal destruction ofik and by the end of the story has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second but it's even more than that if you would ask what are you celebrating at this party would have said I'm celebrating the Eternal destruction of the temple and the Ream's laughing you're not you're not celebrating the Eternal destruction of the temple this party you're going to invite vashi she's going to refuse you're going to knock her off you're going to marry Esther you're going to have a kid Darius you're going to collect taxes he's going to take this money and he's going to build the second B you think this party is celebrating destruction of the temple this party is the first parlor meeting to help rebuild the second mikash that's the hash of M it's a hash we see throughout history in a nutshell because they're not giving me that much more time you ever hear of the Lakewood Yeshiva there's this little place in Lakewood in New Jersey a small Yeshiva called Lakewood does anybody know who built the Lakewood Yeshiva of iron color that's what they told you in Seminary so now let me tell you the real story okay you know who really built the lakew Yesa you see in 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella were on a mission of Reconquista they were trying to conquer the entire Iberian Peninsula sorry something I said no no so sorry they were trying to reconquer the second bikash they're trying to reconquer the entire Iberian Peninsula and there was only one more area of land to conquer until they completed their Conquest Granada and then Granada fell to Ferdinand and Isabella and they celebrated by decreeing the expulsion of Spanish jewy they said never again will there be a Haven for the Jewish people the Jewish people will never have a Homeland they will never have Solace they will never again rebuild Tyra they will never again rebuild their religion you know they scheduled the date of the expulsion for August 2nd 1492 Thursday Tish but we have a record of one of a cabin boy of Seville who is being banished on a boat and he writes that as his boat was leaving the dock of Spain he waved goodbye to three boats that were at the dock that would set sail the very next day those three boats were the Nina the Pinta the Santa Maria that were funded by Ferdinand and Isabella because God laughs at them he says you think you're going to put an end to a a Haven for the Jewish people n Spain will be nothing compared to the land that you are going to fund its Discovery Ferdinand and Isabella paid for the discovery of the United States of America so if you want to know who's responsible for Tyra and America we have Ferdinand and Isabella to thank one more thing I have to keep it brief you ever hear of the Mir Yesa in is what do they have 8,000 do you know who's responsible for the Mira you know why there's Tyra today in you know who the most brutal dictator in the last 200 years was he killed 20 million of his own Hitler almost PED in comparison to Stalin you know that in 19 48 when the Jews were fighting for their survival they were losing the war but Stalin got in his head a crazy idea he didn't like the fact that the British were in the Middle East because they were Democratic he knew the new Jewish state would be socialist he figured if they're socialist they'll probably be communist did you know that he that Stalin funded the war of independence that if not for Stalin we would not have today so this is all part of the where the says I'm not afraid of the Russia you give me the biggest alltime R you give me their plan you give me hamon you give me Ferdinand you give me Stalin I don't need to knock them off I will use them as a puppet to bring about and blessing and motion of the toy for CLA is and in our very own time what happened a year ago on October 7th who could have ever imagined that a year later through various chain reactions Syria fell Lebanon is on the demise and cl in a certain sense is in a stronger position that than they've been in in 70 years all as a result of what happened over a year ago we hope it continues and should watch over all of but the message of there is we have no one to be afraid of the says I'm not scared of the Russia I'm not scared of their plan by the end of the P perm story himself has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second mdash so we're almost we hope now that the month of Adar is upon us we should all be to see to all of you and all of your families you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com