Purim, Politics, Pandemic, and Providence - Boca Raton Kollel

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good evening everyone thank you so much for hosting me this evening it's really hard to imagine that a year has already passed one year ago I had the great privilege to speak at the inaugural event of the kyel and who could have possibly imagin that a year later the world is completely different we live in a different world global pandemic financial crisis the world's in turmoil the one steady we have in our lives the one thing that gives us stability the way we weather the storm is Li and I'm really honored that RAB May RAB luban invited me back again uh to be able to come together really to strengthen not only the Kyo to strengthen the learning of T and to strengthen a little stability in our lives to gain a little Clarity in these very difficult times you know we just read in par truma we speak about the most important CLE the most important apperance in the in the mishkan the AR the Arin Of course house the Tyra and there's this very unusual prohibition you know there are these poles in the AR the T says you're never allowed to take them out why can't you take out the poles you don't even need the poles to carry the Arin why would you not be allowed to take them out you know the you could take out the poles and the you could take out the PO why can't you take out the poles of the says the represents the T the polls represent those who support the Tyra let's call a spade a spade if you don't have financial support you can't learn so one may think yeah financial support I gave the coel 10 years ago I gave the K last year I gave them three months ago at the charity campaign the same way when it comes to the learning of Torah doesn't matter you learned last week you need to breathe every day support of Tyra is a daily responsibility that we have to ask ourselves what did I do today to strengthen the study of Tyra for CLA is and we have the great M we have a K in our community and we have the opportunity literally to be the but there's an interesting phenomenon about the and that is although it may seem that those who carry the poles are carrying the AR Samer writes that he heard from his great rebi rnas Adler that even though it looked like when you carried the poles you were carrying the AR but it wasn't in fact true the Oro miraculously lifted those who were carrying it so look like you're holding the poles but Theon carried you someone who supports the T it looks like you're giving money to the T looks like you're supporting the T the tah is carrying your family your life and everything we have and what a great zus it is for all of us to come together T tonight to support the tah in our community that doesn't just mean the k to support Rabbi May and RAB Luan who work around the clock to ensure that every member of this community has access to the lifegiving benefits of Lia every single day of the year so I want to share with you one very simple question on the Milla we have a new president I don't know how many of us are actually interested in the tax plans of the new president I don't know how much of our time is occupied studying what the new president's plans are for taxing the people millas Esther ends the conclusion of the Milla is that placed taxes on all of the lands that he ruled over that is the grand finale of miger isn't it bizarre that the Milla concludes you know what the conclusion you know what the climax of the PM story is tax the people wh do that's the end of the perm story great great to know I'm so happy I stuck out the story to know that how does the narrative end taxes the people but I believe if you understand the answer to this question it will literally open up for us a completely new Vista New Perspective on the perm story The Milla says that one day couldn't sleep and he's tossing and turning he's having insomnia he's anxious he's a nervous wreck he can't sleep and the Milla says who's coming into the palace H was coming what was H coming to do to hang M the P says alho on the tree literally that H prepared for Mori but thear says don't make that mistake don't read it that hon was coming to hang morai on the tree that hon prepared for morai ton of the gamar says I want to share with you three words of gamarra you could handle three words of gamarra I just came from New York it's freezing if you last week three times I I slipped and fell on a sheet of ice here it's like you know as the you know the satov says if you have to be in the Exile Florida is not a bad place to be so here we are and I want to share with you three words of gamarra says the gamar don't read it that hon made the tree to hang M on but rather he made the tree to hang him on in other words hon was making the tree to hang himself he didn't realize that he didn't know that he didn't recognize that but in reality when he was building that Gallow 50 Amal tall he was building the tree to ultimately hang himself on now this is not a little snidbit of gamarra from this three line of gamar we need to extrapolate the way with which the Divine hand was recognized in the PM story namely don't make the mistake to think that if we have an enemy or we have a challenge we have a difficulty the only way God could get us out of it is if he knocks off the enemy or completely foils the plan give God more credit than that the Reb can take the enemy can take the plan can take the scheme and say I will use your scheme that you're going to try to harm the Jewish people I will co-opt hijack that plan and use it to carry out what I want let me give you two examples remember the guy Pharaoh you know Pharaoh parro king of Egypt he gets word from his astrologers today the savior of the Jewish people is going to be born so parro has a great idea he's going to exterminate every kid that is born on this day he says we're throwing every kid into the Nile so God is looking down from heaven and he said you fool parro you think you're going to exterminate the savior of the Jewish people guess what's going to happen your daughter is going to be bathing in the river she's going to notice a Jewish child she's going to beim on the child she's going to take the child out of the river bring the child into your Palace and she's going to be rocking this kid to sleep at night and at 3:00 a.m. she's going to say Dad I'm so tired you want to hold the kid and rack the kid to sleep and she's going to be add a formula at 3:30 a.m. and she's going to say Dad you want to run to CVS to get some more formula for this baby and when the kid turns 2 years old she's going to said dad can I have your American Express card you need to pay for his tuition phoh thinks he's eradicating he's annihilating the savior of the Jewish people Pharaoh raises mhu in his Palace he brings him to adulthood he pays for his tuition he cares for him there's an amazing ibben Ezra you know think about it m the greatest leader of the Jewish people did not grow up in a Jewish Community he didn't live in Flatbush he didn't live in bar Park he didn't live in M he didn't even live in bokeh mha rinu grew up in Pharaoh's Palace what's this Jewish leader the godar growing up in Pharaoh's Palace says Ian Ezra that if mha would have grown up among the Jewish people he never would have been a leader the Jews were slaves they had low morale and if mha would have grown up among the Jewish people he would have had a you know a low morale he never would have been able to develop and cultivate his leadership qualities so he grew up in Pharaoh's Palace so Pharaoh taught him to be a king he taught him leadership he taught him royalty if not for pharaoh there never would have been AA remember that without parro there would be no T today parro made M parro thought he was Exterminating the savior of the Jewish people he was grooming the savior of the Jewish people one more example from the Milla you know in the story a has a problem with his wife what do you do if you you have a problem with your wife go to a therapist you go to a marriage counselor you go to a rabbi a goes to the stargazers the V ask the following question he's asking everybody's advice wants to know what should I do with this Vash lady she doesn't listen to me V asks this guy is the king of the world he's why is he asking anybody's advice the wife doesn't listen so let him kill her what he needs needs Council what's so complicated over here says the vill because the law in Persia was that when a offense was relevant only To The King The King was not authorized to make a unilateral decision he needed to ask advice Persia was some type of democracy that the king could not decide about his own Affairs really but what happened in the end of the story remember ham takes a misstep with Esther and walks into the room and he sees you're you're fooling around in the palace so this guy walks in there's this tree why don't you hang him on the tree and what does the say said hang him how is aish allowed to make a unilateral decision I thought Persia was a democracy you know what happened there's a guy by the name of M who's M this vashish is wicked the rule in Persia says is ridiculous it's it's stupid proposes from now on Persia should no longer be democracy it should be theocracy should be a monarchy from now on you make all the calls so passes a law which he thought would promote his own agenda that from now on makes his own decisions thank you because in the end of the story when a doesn't know what to do with you otherwise he would have put it up to the senate or the House of Representatives and it would have been a majority but they never would have gotten 2/3 so now muhan is dead why because of him because he passed the law that Persia is no longer a democracy it's a monarchy this is the manner with which God works Hashem doesn't say okay there's an enemy we're going to kill the enemy we're going to knock off the enemy God says give me the enemy I'm going to use his plans his machinations his schemes and I'm going to use his scheme to bring about what I want to accomplish that's the power that's the control of the ream he doesn't need your man in office to accomplish what's good for the Jewish people you know people get all caught up only if we have this Senator Governor president of the United States only then it will be good for Israel only then it will be for the good for the Jews but if we have the other guy give God enough credit that he could have any guy in office and still use his plans and machinations to bring about what wants and with this understanding with this perspective we now the heavens open and we have a new understanding of the end of the story because let's fast forward about 10 years after the PM story we go to a book called sa for Ezra and in sa for Ezra it discusses how the Jewish people want to return to rebuild the second temple and the Jewish Community led by Ezra they march to Jerusalem and they're about to build a new B mikdash and they look in the bank account and they have no money and they get word from a guy by the name of Darius you know who Darius is dares who's dares son of Esther son of aash King of the world King of Persia he sends word Ezra you're authorized to rebuild the second temple Ezra says we're broke we're penniless we have no we have no money so look and say for Ezra par the verse says Darius sends word to every community on planet Earth to open up all the storehouses of taxes and unload all the tax money into the Jewish bank account in Jerusalem to rebuild the second temple and I ask you one simple question where did Darius get all this tax money to finance the building of the second temple and the answer is that's why the Milla ends that taxed the people because all that tax money is put in escro ultimately forwarded to Ezra's bank account to rebuild the second temple and if you think about it now we see the mcgilla has come full circle because at the beginning of the story a is celebrating what's he celebrating the fact that the temple lay in Ruins and will never be rebilt is partying that the temple will never be rebuilt and God is looking down from heaven and God is laughing says a you fool you think you're celebrating the temple will never be rebuilt at this party you're going to call vashi to come she'll flatly refuse you're going to kill her you're going to marry Esther you're going to have a kides you're going to collect taxes and this party will cause the building of the second temple you think you're celebrating Corin destruction this party will celebrate the building of the second temple by the end of the purm story aash has become the chief fundraiser of the second base hamikdash if there was a plaque on the second temple it would say built by a God says you give me the president you give me the Monarch you give me the king you give me the enemy and the hon and I will use them to carry out my plan H was the Shad for Esther to marry aash a was the financer of the building of the second temple let me give you one example in more modern times 1492 the second greatest Haven and Powerful Jewish community in our history was Jewish community in Spain and then you have a guy King ferand Queen Isabella they conquer the Iberian Peninsula and they decide they're going to eradicate the power of the Jewish people and 1492 August 2nd a Thursday they expel the Jewish people from Spain they think they've successfully diminished Jewish power Forever on that very day they hand a man by the name of Christopher Columbus a lot of money and they say Christopher we're paying for three of your boats we want you to go to the new world see out there see what's going to be on the other side of the world may in fact if you look in the chronicles of sevil there was a cabin boy who was captured and he writes that as his boat was leaving Spain on Thursday August 2nd 1492 on tisho he passes by the three boats of Christopher Columbus that would set sail the very next day to discover the greatest Haven of the most powerful Jewish community in the history of the world the Jews of America Ferdinand and Isabella think they're diminishing the power of the Jewish people they are responsible for Tyra in America who built Lakewood yiva Ferdinand and Isabella who built in Berlin the Mira the B Co was built together with Rabbi May and Rabbi luban King ferdinan and Queen Isabella and maybe you know you could fundraise from them a little bit more we could discuss that later that is the give God more credit than be able to accomplish what he needs to do with our ideas and our plans and our machination tonight is a very special night in the Jewish calendar tonight is the yard site of the writes the first comment of the place God before you always the last comment of the if you have a good heart you'll always be happy place God before you humid always D's last comment of if you have a good heart you'll always be happy he starts with the word t he ends with the word tmid says if you place God before you tumid always you will be Val you'll always be happy read the Milla carefully recognize that hashem's hand is pulling every string not only in the PM story but in everything that happens in our lives and the more we recogniz that Hashem is pulling the strings the more it will Infuse our lives with tremendous happiness satisfaction Joy Mayes bless all of us especially in the Merit of supporting the tah May the tah always carry us and Infuse our lives with happiness joy forever and ever i' ask thanks so much for having me all the best CTO thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com