Purim: Right Back at Ya! {Edgware}

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay sh out everybody um it's a great great great to have first all you all you here to come out to hear a share from shabas it's a huge to have him uh we just spent the week the shabus in gold is green far was a huge success edra definitely missed out but miss next time we're going to get it together for edgear um by way of introduction maybe I don't think Rob really needs an intru ction um but I think it'll be something like this welcome to tet anytime.com um but uh a personal note glin has opened his heart to me and has shown given us an incredible incredible Terror to to inspire not only ourselves with but also to share the shabas tables with and to give over to others and I think we're all here because we just can't wait to hear his Terror and with no further Ado before I say Glen welcome um and before you leave if it's okay to give the donation there's a there's a table at the side and also we have the mugged AIA which is R GL safer on Purim which is for sale outside £15 or $20 whichever you prefer um again there's a table outside and there's some swarm on the back as well so you want to have a look but with no further Ado there we go sh to everybody enjoy [Music] oh how do I do this thank you Josh for that very kind introduction it's really worthwhile to come here all the all the way to London just to be together with r Jos um I just marvel at how he has the energy to do everything he does um he puts together shm and shabas tables and inspires people and go sleep at 2:00 in the morning and then 2:30 he's up learning Yuma again so um I definitely have gained from my friendship with Josh we know the tells us that there's a special inan to say the following two words we like to talk about eloh on Saturday night we like to mention his name what's the reason because eloh cannot come on Friday Friday is a busy day nobody's going to pay attention to him people are making chant on Friday nobody wants to hear about El no shab will not go above the so he cannot he cannot travel to us and therefore the first opportunity could come is Saturday night many sparm recommend say the words aloh at least three times others say say Al 30 times that says speak 130 times say you get the point so just for starters just we want to speak about an important aspect in dimension of Miller but in the context of shabas in the context ofi and my worst fears have come to fruition because I gave this class in Manchester knowing that nobody in the right mind would also come to edgewear and sure enough like everybody here was in Manchester Thursday night so we have to hear something new the Milla begins 180 days who cares of what relevance is it that the suda lasted 180 days as we know everything in the Milla is significant every every detail in the Milla was written to magnify the miracle so why does the Milla tell us that the party lasted 180 days says maharal Mahal was one of the great Rabon in Warsaw pre-war and he wrote a parish on the Milla the m and he says the reason why the Milla begins that the party lasted 180 days is because lived 180 years imagine how long the party would have lasted if he lived like 500 years but he lived 180 years and therefore the party was 180 days to indicate that what saved the Jewish people the years of Y you know in French they say like what what is one thing that have to do with the other what is what are the years of have to do with the salvation of PM furthermore does anybody know how many children um ham had the gamar brings various opinions some say 30 some say 70 some say 208 the gamar says R says 208 why ver bov the gatria of ver is 208 says the gamar no it's not it's 214 says no spelled so in fact it's 208 children what significance is it that H had 208 children corresponding to the years ofu interesting keeps coming back in the miguela he's getting old what he's getting older well corresponding to the the numerical value sorry excuse me the numerical value of two of so y lived 180 Years thank you the numerical value of y is 208 you know we have this guy and K makes two appearances in the Miga he appears in the beginning of the story he he appears in the end of the story in the beginning of the story his name is spelled one way in the end of the story his name is spelled a different way I guess you know a guy gets called up for alah they say what's his name he says it depends who's asking you know so has two different names with a in the beginning with a he in the end what's this all about so thear says that actually in the end of the m is not it's it's ELO wearing AA costume is really a bad guy however in the end of the Milla he came to save the day now in when you spell names in G the correct way to spell a name is when you're spelling a secular name you end off with a Al when you spell a holy name you end up with a he therefore in the beginning of the Milla it was the the Persian therefore he spelled with a Al in the end of the Milla it'si we gotten his name againi is a holy man and therefore he spelled with to hey oh now we understand says the mar why we say all of a sudden this guy is that woman is arura this guy is that girl is why is you know why because he's is the only one who so why because that is referring to El keeps on appearing the Milla why does ELO keep on appearing in the Milla we have to try to understand that where does he appear well when hamon is about to make the decree so the Met tells us that he goes and he he starts waking up Abraham he wakes up y he wakes up yob and they said what should we do did the Jews sin and elu says sure bet they sin so they said what are we supposed to do so finally elu comes and he wakes up the RNA the faithful Shepherd M mha says was it written in ink excuse me was it written in blood or was it written in clay and El says it was written in clay so Misha says then we could do something about it let's pray and mha says let's go wake up Mori and they wake up Mori and mo Mor begins to pray but who precipitated who aroused M says the medi so herei is the one who advised to hang he's the one who wakes up Mor by the the way he appeared recently regarding the PM story not so long ago he came to you know the story one p you don't know the story one p um some an were coming to collect money from so gave him a buck or a pound I don't know probably a pound yeah so gave him a z a Ruble or one of those coins that has no value right he gave him he gave him a dollar and then the only said if you give me another coin I'll tell you a secret about the Milla so he said deal so he gave him a coin and this old man this un said let me tell you something how does the medish know that this decree was written in clay and was not Written in Blood so says you tell me so he says because it says said pretty impressive he went he told the gr the gr could not believe it he said my whole life I was wondering where got this from there is no doubt that the man who appeared to you to reveal to you what eloh told Mor was Eli so is very busy with he's dressing up as he's waking up Mor he's advising to hang H what's IO anovi doing in the perm Story I mean how did he get himself into the PM story that's a nice gig how did IO get into the story so you want to say like this Lov shabus lover the new month the new week Andover the people who heard some of the other stuff I'm going to say who never heard this says that we have four Exiles and we have four redeemers the first Exile was Galas B from which we were redeemed in the of the third Exile is Greece from who we were redeemed in the Merit of Y the fourth Exile is our Exile today G from which we will be redeemed in the now says in what do you know at this week's that is the wants the reason why he hasn't come yet there is not yet enough Li as soon as we do what we need to do we're out of here boys we're out of here but what about the second G says the secondos is G from which we were redeemed in the of now we understand why the Milla has to begin that the party was 180 days in the Merit of the years of because the whole way we got out of that mess is in the Merit ofu and that's why H's Sons were 208 can I get because it's like him so where doesi come in very simply the Z tells us that elah and Y share a common Mida and that common Mida is gura in fact the numerical value of Pinas is 208 the same as y but comes the son-in-law of the marami Prague RZA de mayor and he tells us a great secret and that is in fact the gilgal ofu is so now we understand amazingly what Eli's role is in melasa because we're only getting out of G the party we were safe from in the mer of's 180 years we were safe from H's 208 sons in the Merit of 208 and therefore Eli has to be the one to save the day he's going to dress up as he's going to wake up morai he's going to tell the and by the way there's another amazing appearance of where the G interestingly asks why did Esther invite H to the party and the gar says this answer and that answer and this answer and this reason and the gar concludes who is right and who said let me tell you who's right about this one they're all right now how did alaho know exactly the whole Intrigue of what's going on with Esther because he's the main player over here behind the scenes it's all about ali especially shabas we like to talk about Eli and you know what else we like to do shabas we like to make you know about that havdalah procedure that we did tonight you pick up the cup and interestingly if you actually pay attention to what we're doing in havdalah you'll know notice that havdalah revolves itself around the PM story say what are you talking about what what does havdalah got to do with the PM story what do what do you mean of all theim that we could have chosen to recite during Hava we could have said A P from I mean that would have gone really good you know you could do it with that voice like you know you could K could have had a good nigun you could have stuck that in nobody would have you could have put in you could have put in I don't know you know there a lot of you could have no every the main that we say is and yes we sayi but the only POS that we say that has this refrain that everyone joins in and everyone says what's that got to do with havalah now I want to tell you an interesting it's not a schoola so don't get too excited it's only a but by the way there's nothing wrong with following Hala really nothing wrong with that only good things could happen when you follow the the fact that it's in should not you know in any way diminish your excitement about what I'm about to say and is brought down in the and the this way and the Rama says you don't have to do it but the Rama would agree that it's better to do it and I love this little and that is the recommends that you put in your and the says the the Ramos says you don't have to because it will fade and it won't smell so strong so you're not required to says you do need to but even ra would agree it's better to you should put in your and the Bic says it's cabalistic but then he says a remes to it is there's a and then josed to that is so in the context of shabas we have hadim that indicates it is preferable to put hadim in your B so every Saturday night you get to smell myrtles and think about Esther after all the first so again Esther has made her way into the havah and by the way there's a in the that the two Wicks of havalah of the Yuka represent the two luminaries of Galos M and Esther so it's interesting here it is it's Saturday night it it could be T it could be a it could be El and we make Hava and the furthest thing from our mind is PM and we have this whole ceremony reminding us of the PM story and we smell theim and we look at the AA what's it got to do with I have another interesting question for you begins but the following comment T Place God before me always the word tmid there concludes another T they're two t the same way we have we have two a Jew has two things we always occupy ourselves with one is I place God before me always number two is says one is dependent on the other if you want to be happy you want to be content you want to be have a feeling of well-being if you want to have if you fulfill the first you'll be able to fulfill the last and that is if you f the fulfill the first tmid of placing God before you always you will Merit to reach the madrea of the last tmid of let's explain a little bit how this works one more question for you let's take a vote okay there's this there's this Creator called God he made us and he wanted to make a name for himself like the PK says L now he's going to choose one of 24 books of tanak with which to make his name known now if I were to ask you what is the worst book to choose with with which to make his name known because in this book his name does not appear which book would you vote would be the worst book to for God to make a name for himself with Esther so if there was a vote how what which book should God not select to make a name for himself we would all vote on Esther and yet the gar God made a name for himself zo mikra Milla that's Milla Esther God made a name for himself through the Milla I mean why didn't anybody ask me about this one why why in the world would the gamarra Daran that God had made a name for himself with mikra Mill it's the one book his name does not appear the Milla concludes parak with the following P parak Al this is the third to last p in the Milla now we know before just a preface okay the second to last P Milla the penultimate is what does that PK mean you want to know the rest of the story you want to know the historical background you want to know the context you want to know about the times you want to know about the Persian officers wrong book you go to you got to go to The Chronicles of Persia media right we'll go to the British museum we'll go to the storage rooms and we're going to open up the ancient documents and we're going to read about the rest of the story what's this doing in the Milla why is this P says ramski the Migel is telling you that if you think anything was written in this book in this scroll to give you a better appreciation for the times and the history and the context of what took place you got the wrong book go to The Chronicles of Persia media every detail written in this scroll was for one reason and one reason only to magnify the miracle and you know what the PK before is taxed the people that's ridiculous what's that doing in the Milla why do I need to know that taxs the people that is a relevant that tax the people if you read that the Prime Minister of England is thinking about changing the TA nobody cares about taxes today why would anybody care about taxes 2,000 years ago of what's the this is after the perm story after the Salvation why do I need to know that tax the people ask the Grizz ask the brisar what's it doing in the Miga says two Words which really capture the essence of the PM story hamon is coming to the king early in the morning and he has a plan the plan is he's going to tell the king to hang Mor Al on the tree that he prepared for him as the word is extra it should say on the tree that he prepared obviously he prepared it for Mor why does it have to say that he prepared it for Mor why says the two words that capture the essence of he prepared it for himself it's not an extra word ham you think you're making the Gallows 50 tall which is absurd why in the world would anyone make Gallows 50 tall according to that's 100t tall you can't even see above 20 am we'll get to that soon you think you're preparing this Gallows for morai you're making it for yourself that is the principle of Mester that is the procedure of that we find in the M that every plan every scheme every machination of hamon Hashem says I'm not going to foil it I'm not going to stop it you know Hashem could have had hamon could have been walking to the king and then lightning could have come down and kill hamon and then we would have a purm and we would all get dressed up like I don't know lightning or or something we would Why did no hash Hashem could have had like a car run up over hamon a lot of things could have happened to hamon could have fell off a balcony his daughter instead of dropping garbage on his head could have dropped a bowling ball I mean just off the off the top of my head I could think of many ways hamon's plan could have been foiled now seriously the bowling bow would have hit him on the head and planted him in the ground you know why did Hashem not do that cuz Hashem says like this h on you pick the plan you pick the scheme you pick the machination I will then hijack co-opt that plan and kill you with that plan Al you think you're making The Gallows for Mori you're making it for yourself remember there's a man by the name of pharaoh so Pharaoh gets his briefing one day from the astrologers it came in on his desk today the savior of the Jewish people is going to be born you need to throw every child that's going to be born today into the Nile Jew non-jew so far said that's it I'm going to knock off the savior of the Jewish people so he made a rule called we're going to throw every boy into the river and his daughter happened to be swimming in the river and the there's signs everywhere like wherever you go you know wherever you go nobody even paid attention to the fact that you know they were bringing in some speaker to Egypt for Saturday night they were all they cared about was the fact that today you need to drown the boys and she's swimming in the river and she sees a little boy and she knows she has to drown him but she can't do it so she takes the boy home and parro Hears A little whining in the Next Room she says Basi what's that well you got to see this kid he's so adorable and Par looks at him that par could have taken the kid and thrown him into the river and the kid is like you know shining kid beautiful kid he's pretty cute and P say you know I got to go shopping you want to hold him a little bit and Par was sitting there for the next three hours rocking this kid you know and then Bas called you know I'll be home uh I'll be home later don't worry there's a bottle in the fridge so par was feeding the kid par put the kid to sleep the next day Basia says you know I don't have any money in my credit card we really need formula for the new baby would you mind would you mind uh giving me some money and parro feeds the kid and parro raises the kid and sometimes at night Bas say you know I had a hard night would you mind watching this kid tonight and P's up at night you know rocking the kid to sleep and parro is there at his uh Nursery graduation sheing nakas from his new adopted son and at his sitter party P's you know taking pictures the camcorder and the izra says why did hash have it that par that M had a grow up in the Royal Palace and not with his Jewish Brethren says even Ezra if Misha would have grown up with his Jewish Brethren he would have had a slave mentality he would have had a low morale and he never would have been able to be the leader of the Jewish people the king and therefore he need to grow up with parro because was slouching a little bit par said Stand Tall you're going to be a king one day fix your tie speak proper and you know who groomed thank you par if not for par we wouldn't have had AA who would have taken us out of Egypt who would have led us out of Egypt who would have gone up to Har andu so parro thinks he's going to ruin the Jewish leader the mash is God's laughing you think you're going to ruin M you're going to make create groom the leader of the Jewish people this is what we see in the Miga many times so in the beginning of the story par has a problem with his wife it happens you know it happens to people what so funny and and Par has this issue what that's right has a problem with his life it happens people yeah and doesn't know what to do so he calls why does he have to call he's the king of the world can he just if he doesn't if he doesn't want her he can do whatever he wants what's he calling the the the uh wise men what why why is par beholden to the wise men especially if you look in the comes to and he says you're going to let this rotten scoundrel H you saw what he just did um there's an a right the eight is there hang the guy why didn't and how is allowed to do that in the beginning of the he has to ask the advice of in the end of the he's just doing everything on his own says the the LA Persia is that the king can make an unilateral decision he could do whatever he wants he could say whatever he wants however if it's relevant to him if it's when he is biased he cannot make the decision on his own That's the Law the law is when something is relevant to The King The King has to ask the advice of the wise men that was a law in Persia so why is is not following that law in the end of the story you know [Laughter] why so says really sinned against everyone so what should I do now says says I'm not let decide on my own hm says now you are change the laww from now on you're going to make your own decisions now what was Ham's motivation H knew that nobody liked him but he would never be able to rise up to power if anybody else has any say about anything so he says from now on you make the call on your own who is thank you for digging your own grave because later on when you take the misstep with Esther had needed to consult it uh to consult with anyone there's no way he would have hung you what did ham do why ham you know he could have said he tripped he fell there's a misunderstanding H could have got out of it no a was angry and he had just been empowered by miman to make his own decisions so the very first own decision that a is going to make is kill that guy h if you look there tsuk and the Milla that contradict each other if you look about at the decrees that ham made H says like this to obliterate to destroy to kill that's what the said and the next PK is what does the end of the P say the PK says that you know what the document said nothing Beware Of The Ides of March all the document said was be prepared for this and this day it's interesting first the PK says that hamon told the runners that the Jews are going to be obliterated murdered annihilated on the 13th of AD and then the text of the letter said Beware of this in this day so what's going on did it say what's going to happen or did it not say what's going to happen so hummon was brilliant hm knew that if the documents said that the Jews are going to be annihilated on the 13th day of Nissan 13th day of Adar you know what's going to happen the Jews are going to look at the posters they're going to read the pashan and they're going to say what we're going to be annihilated on 13th of Ador where's the governor where's the Ambassador where's the legislator and the Jews are going to send their best uh inter intermediary and they're going to give a little like we know how to do and they're going to be they're going to abolish the decree the next thing you're going to hear in the news this uh and this country was abolished and that country was abolished we'll buy off this what we do this what happens every week so hon was very smart he did not write on the pashin what's going to happen on that day but he told the runners what would happen so to the runners that what but the text said be ready it's super Tuesday coming up by the way that's this Tuesday so if you're an American citizen speak to me privately I'll tell you who to vote [Music] for so they come to they said this man wants to kill us so says you know I can't do anything because I can't retract my letter so he said the letter don't say nothing there's nothing on the letter so why don't we just say that when it says Beware of the eyeses of March it doesn't mean H's going to kill us we're going to kill says brilliant your brilliant plan backfire on you again and there many many examples of this if you want to hear more ask the guys who came to the share Manchester but I want to tell you something that uh Hashem illuminated my eyes I was learning sa for Ezra and in sa for Ezra we find that after the PM Story the Jewish people return to the Holy Land and they want to rebuild the second temple and they're out of cash they have no money it's not like uh it's like when the Jews came to America in the 30s the 40s the 50s they didn't have money it's not like today three generations later it was first generation it's probably like that in every country the Jews had no money they had no cattle for caranas they had no oil for the they had no flour for for the offerings in the temple they had nothing so dares Darius sends word to the Jewish people no worries I'm going to send you cows and I'm going to send you sheep and I'm going to send you oil and salt and wine and money this is where you going to get the money from Darius says don't sweat it I'm going to open up the Royal treasury of all the levy taxes and Supply you with the financing to build the second Bas mikdash and I cannot help but think where did Darius get all this tax money to help the Jews rebuild the second temple you know how that is ex why the Milla ends that tax the people because you need to know where do you think this money went to his dear y Darius who inherited a big AAA and used the money to finance the building of the second temple but watch this friends while the perm Story begins that is throwing this big bash celebrating the fact fact that the Prophet Jeremiah said that in 70 years the temple will be rebuilt and says you see Jeremiah is a fraud it never happened the temple will never be rebuilt and puts on the bigun and he's sitting there with the A and theen and the and the and they bring out the Mana and they're eating off the shulan and they're drinking out of the MRA and they're celebrating the fact the temple will never ever ever be rebuilt a says and God is looking down from heaven and saying you fool you think this suda is celebrating that the temple will never be rebuilt this suda is going to knock off your lovely wife vashi with the tail you're going to marry Esther you're GNA have a Jewish son dares and you think you're celebrating the Bish will never be rebuilt by the end of the perm story a had become the chief fundraiser for the second B [Laughter] mikash step aside the uja here comes a you know how every SCH has plaques you know Builder founder the main plaque on the second temple should have a big name a the house that a built you know Yankee Stadium the house that Ruth built second bikash the house that a built now there is an opinion that H gave a lot of silver 10,000 talents of silver you know how much silver Darius gave the Jews 10% Myer you're the second big biggest fundraiser of the second mikash so while the Story begins that is celebrating the fact that the temple will never be rebuilt in the scheme of things that suda caused the rebuilding of the second B and therefore the climax the summit the greatest illustration of the hand of God in the perm story are the taxes that A's tax the people that's the end of the story that's incredible now why did God do things this way why couldn't he just strike down humon with the lightning with the bowling ball and all the other ways you could imagine the answerers like this cuz if God wouldn't do it this way you see in the mcgilla God's name does not appear and yes there are so many amazing events that can only be attributed to the hand of God but the heretic may say you know it's a coincidence that vashi didn't listen to him and it's a coincidence that Esther became the queen and it's a coincidence that Mor overheard the plot to kill the king and it's a coincidence that hon came in early in the morning just when a couldn't sleep and it's a coincidence that H fell the whole thing is one big coincidence so God says in a world where there no open Miracles the greatest demonstration that I'm with you that like the says in rishu pantomimed to somebody in the Royal Palace he went like this he went like this what rishu Kan was saying is you see he got into a dispute with a heretic a heretic went like this to rabish what he was saying is God has turned his back on you and rishu Kan said no his hand is still guiding us guarding us protecting us saving us but where do we see it in the most open demonstration of Ash and that is God will take haman's Plan and he says you make the plan sit work on it for 10 years just let me know what it is I will use your plan to kill you you make the Gallows you'll hang on The Gallows you come early in the morning to get back at morai you'll be leading him through the streets you make a law that the King has unilateral decision he'll use that law to kill you you make a party to celebrate that party will build you just pick the plan let me know what it is and the rest is history that is where we see God in the Milla we have such an open demonstration of Hashem in the Milla you ready for this God's name is not in the Milla it is in the Milla more than any other book in the whole tanak really yes I maintain that there is no safer in Tanakh that God's name appears more than in Migel where is it you know who else doesn't appear in in Mill sester the Jews how many how many times does it say in h good point the don't appear no no no no what are we called in the M says look at the word you'll see wonders from the name Yehuda Yehuda is y then a then a and then a he at the end and the see God's Throne is missing and not until Yehuda was born did God's Throne have stability the fourth leg of the that holds it up is the Yehuda the word Yehuda is the name of God and the fourth leg that holds it up now you could reach MGA of sh God you're here and I'm here but at the end of the day I'm I'm here but sometimes I'm going to go to sleep and sometimes I'm going to turn around so may not be the highest level you know what the highest level is when God becomes part of you when you become y when Hashem is so real to you when his hand is so apparent when you're so cognizant of Hashem that not Hashem is not in front of you he's part of you perhaps that is M of yud that is how God made a name for himself with millas there because his name is not in the text it's in the Jewish people it's integrated in our personalities and that is the ultimate Sim the ultimate Sim is by the way m you know that right you know that song who said that teaching and what until him people walked around miserable and well there's no such thing as so we could be really miserable and people are actually there a lot of people I know who are very happy being miserable people get very nervous with this like did it start yet you know I still have another hour to be frowning I once told somebody kki says it doesn't start until the second day you [Laughter] know two adors maybe have a month off whatever it is who said this teaching I mean his name is Sheilas why did his parents do that to him and what kind of name is Sheilas it's a Hungarian name or something what's Sheilas says the and why now if if your name is what do you think you're going to name your kid of course this is the it's the being a where is part of your personality where you see so clearly that it's not in front of you it's in you it's part of you so M says I have a great idea this is wonderful this this miracle H wasn't hit by a bowling ball he wasn't hit by lightning he hung himself is great let's make a y let's celebrate and then the PK says no um no the says the Jews didn't want a they said we know we need we want to work we want to go to work we don't want to have an I mean you got to be kidding me you imagine Mor comes he says I want to make a y I want to say no school no Yeshiva no work who exactly has the problem with this now the Jews well don't answer that right who exactly who has the problem with it being a yff Cesar of hutner the Jews had a problem with being a yti you know why they had a problem with being yti they were so encouraged by purm purm became so a part of their personality they're so attached to purm and the Gallos that they knew if they would have to make a yum then when it's over they would have to make havdalah and a Jew could never make Hava from PM we love PM so much we're so connected to PM that we can never bring ourselves to make hav from P because p is mad of T and through it we we reach we can't makea from P so here it is it's Saturday night and we're all a bad mood we're all miserable no more chabas chabas so wonderful if only every day would be shabas home with the family a good chilling a good nap what more could you want but we have to say goodbye you can't hold on to chabas chabas comes and chabas goes we're so depressed we even have to smell Bon so the an have said you know what even though there's one thing even though you have to be M from chabas but here's a little consolation there's one thing in this world you never have to be from you never have to be M from P you smell the B you remember Hada you remember you look at the candle you remember and we understand we never accepted p as because we never have to be M from p our consolation shabus is that as we take leave of chabas there's one thing we never ever take leave of us all the will one day cease to some extent Pim will never cease we'll have PM in this world we'll have PM in the next World we have por him on shabas night on Sunday on Monday on Tuesday because it's madrea of a so as we take leave of shabas aside from mentioning 130 times we are consoled and we are strengthened God's hand is still hovering over us and protecting us exactly the same way as when he took us out of MIT may we see the great day when we see the but until that day comes we we are all strengthened you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com