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Pesacheinu Megadim - Connecting the Beginning & End of Megillas Esther {Purim}

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Okay everyone, you know that for the last many years we've been promoting the words of the of the who says if you learn between and we know that is a very important part of writes that if one would dedicate themselves with kaduca on pur and the rest of the day spend inra the would come. So this year on Fridays we've been uh having a sed we call him actually this year's purra tried to mock the he made all right all right I don't know we'll have to get a different one for next year but connecting the beginning and the end of the para so we'll try that for kisa but what I would like to do first is applying that princip principle to migillas. In other words, could we find a connection between the beginning and end of the migillah? That's that's our first say there tonight. Applying the principle of to migillas Esther if I'm not mistaken. Is that Mr. Calfman from Manchester? I think so. Right. Is it okay? Anyway, um we know the begins that ruled over Medit. It's interesting that the the migill ends in the same way. It ends actually right before that it says that Medina towards the end of the migilla it also reiterates and then even the third to last the says mass is gamatria 100 va is gamatria 27. So the book ends of the migilla are the 127 medit. So that's one connection between beginning and end. Here's another uh another one and it goes like this. Rashi brings and the migillah says who he was wicked from beginning to end. In the beginning he was celebrating the destruction of the B mikdash. What was his wickedness in the end? The garra says the wickedness is he taxed the people. The reason he's called is everyone became poor in his life. So he's mit from the beginning of the migillah till the very end of the migillah where he taxes the people. Now I'm going to share with you a golden oldi which you know but we never applied it in this context. We we said all the years why does the migillah end that a tax the people. So we've said many times because where did those taxes go? If you look in say for Ezra, Dary Yaveesh opens up the treasury of taxes and he funds the construction of the second Bikash. So the story really comes full circle. The story begins that Akash is celebrating that the B mikdash is destroyed and it will never be rebuilt. By the end of the story, he's become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second B mikdash. So that's also a connection between the beginning and the end. It begins that is celebrating that the Ba Mdash will never be destroy will never be rebuilt and in the end Hashem twists his arm that he himself is the one fundraising to build the second Ba mdash right Hashem always uses interesting uh procedures in fundraising fundraising always takes interesting twists and turns okay so that's already um three connections you have the 127 med you have the wickedness of a from beginning to end and then you have the migillah beginning that he's celebrating that the basa mikdash will never be rebuilt by the end of the story he's fundraising to rebuild the basa mikdash I want to share with you something I mamish just saw in mahadura tis it's I just saw it it's literally still in my printer it's also found in ma on migillas Esther in his last piece of migillas Esther and also in moder [Music] Now what's interesting is he says like this the migillah starts off a ruled over the whole world 127 medit why why did he do that so the sheer amount says like this. We know that many wealthy people have mashars who are sadikim who are supported from these wealthy people. But it turns out that the person was only wealthy. God gave the money so that he could help the sadic, not the other way around. So it may look like, well, this person has a lot of money and by the way he happens to benefit the sadic. No, Hashem wanted to benefit the sadic. So, he gave so and so the money and that sadic is a beneficiary. Think about it. Why did Hashem raise up that he became the king of the whole world and 127? Why did Hashem elevate to such a great uh pedestal? You know why? because there's going to be a great he's going to be second in command to the king. He's going to be a great God is going to save the Jewish people. The whole reason why Hashem elevated and made powerful and wealthy is so that a man will come along by the name of Morai. He's going to become second in command to and he's going to utilize all of that wealth and power that had to be able to help Israel. So the beginning of the mig was all a setup to the last of so that's the connection brought in the safer she now the purim rav was trying to poke fun of that I'm quoting the pinas but I'm going to do it anyway it's okay. What letter does Miguel does Miguel Esther begin with? No. Vav. What letter does it end with? It ends with the letter V. It ends with the letter V. It begins with the VV. It ends with the VV. Okay. What are we going to do with that? You know the third to last. Does anybody know how to? So again, you spell shin vin. It's spelled that way in the homill except for the last the third to last their akash is spelled it's a civ it's redash it's spelled kash it's missing two vavves so isn't it interesting the migill begins with above it ends with above but is missing two vavves what is what is this all about the garra tells us that when hashem offered the He had to force it. He had to shove it down our throats and we didn't accept it willingly until the times of the question is what do you mean we accepted the Tory willingly? We said so we know the says in par we accepted the written law willingly the oral law we had to be forced to accept the path. In fact, even though the written law we said we will listen and we will perform meaning when it comes to that's when it comes to it's just the opposite. Now that means there was a was in says in the venu in the two vishanu. Therefore miguelas and purim was a way of accepting theel willingly and taking upon ourselves these two vesu. Therefore it begins with the letter v. V shamanu. So it ends with the letter V the and we're making these two VVs but is trying to take away these VVs. So at the end of the migill is without the two v. He's missing the two ves is spelled two v. But the goal of migill is to establish the two of and then the migill starts the way it ends. It starts with the letter vavv. It ends with the letter vavv. The cloenberba says something very interesting to connect the beginning of the migillah with the end of the migillah. Namely, we know that when morai became close to the sanhedrin separated from him says from here we learn you have two guys. One guy runs out of the base to save a life. The other guy he's in the base mish he didn't have that opportunity he's learning gamarra which one is greater it is greater to learn tora than to save a life tora where do we learn this from saved is but he went down in his madrega says the rebba is what's the is that and because that only most of the Jews liked him but some of the Sanhedrin had to separate from him. So the fact that Morai rose in power was in some degree a certain amount of sar for Israel. Um and then one more idea says connecting to the end of the migilli. He says something interesting says that why in the times of pur were we not to an open miracle. He says from our vantage point from from our merit the Jewish people would have been worthy but was not worthy like the garra says about that he wasn't worthy that the miracle should occur through him. So the migillah's beginning and end is very connected on the one hand he was worthy of an open miracle. The problem was and the and is that on the other hand the king involved was not worthy for the open miracle. He was so these are a number of connections between the beginning and end of the migillah. Number one we find number two we find is wicked in the beginning and in the end he's still wicked. The garra says the migill he's taxing the people. The migillah starts offer celebrating that the ba mdash will never be rebuilt. By the end of the story he's the fundraising for the bas mikdash. It begins and ends with the letter V because the tick of the two vanu that's why is missing the two or is the was not able to devote himself as much to lira and now Sanhedrin and then another so to speak connection and contrast is that while Mori was nevertheless because was he um we were not to an open miracle. Okay. So that's the onestester. Now regarding I'm going to tell you on the problem is if you want me to do something on someone has to put on a mask. Anybody have a mask on them? No. Well, all the people who I don't see them on the screen. That's like a mask. So, I'm telling you once a year. Come, I'm telling you to take off the mask. And we want to see your face. Otherwise, you know. Thank you. Thank you. Otherwise, it's a mess. So, I'm I'm reckoning if I don't see you, I'm reckoning that as a mask. Okay. For the second Oh, now we're talking. It's 2:30 a.m. Mr. Lee Calfman. I I I I remember you very fondly from Manchester. I appreciate that you stayed up till 2:30 a.m. to join this year. And I'm and your whole family. Okay.