Purim: Right Back At Ya! {Miami Beach Shabbos of Chizuk}

okay good everyone thank you for hosting me the shabas it's been a real honor to be here thank you to the con family for uh hosting tonight's event thank you to the robin Ritson for bringing me in for chabas Mrs Wasa for all the arrangements I would like to bring to your attention the end of the story of Milla sester and I would like to analyze it a new light and use it as a ray of light on the whole story of we know that every detail of the Milla is recorded for one reason and one reason only this is not a history book in fact the Milla itself tells us that if you want to know more about the history you want to know about the context the background the palace Intrigue you got the wrong book this is not a book about history this is not not a book about Palace Intrigue this is not a book about Persian politics you want to know about that go to The Chronicles of Persian media there you you will find what we call the rest of the story this book was written for one reason and one reason only Puma to publicize the Divine orchestration ofes in that context we are entitled to analyze every bit of information information that is included in the migil and ask ourselves how does this piece of information contribute and magnify the miracle of Hashem so we're going to learn a little bit of English because I'm understanding the main language in Florida so just to make sure that we're on the same page with the language we know that in English last ultimate second to last penultimate third to last anti penultimate okay anti penultimate is the third to last the last p in the Milla tells us the strength and the power of mad is recorded in the books of The Chronicles of Persian media Morad was great to Great to the Jews and most Jews him which is as good as you're going to get if you're a rabbi most Jews will like you he spoke he spoke peace to all of his descendants and the second to last PK tells us if you want to know about the rest of the story go to The Chronicles of Persia media and the third to last M tells us tax the people actually the villo says Mass has a numerical value of 100 EA has a numerical value of 27 taxed all 127 provinces that's the end of the story could you imagine such a thing the Milla ends that taxed the people and let's ask ourselves one simple question who cares that he taxed the people why is it relevant that he tax the people is this necessary to appreciate the miracle of Pim that taxes the people why does the Milla end off by the way here's the taxation the financial plans of aash in the PM story what is this doing in migas sester in order to answer this question we have to sort of revolutionize our understanding of God's role in orchestrating The Miracle of Pam and I need to share with you three words of the gamar you think we can handle that tonight three words of talad B okay the Story Goes Like This H was coming to the outer Courtyard of the king to tell the king to tell the king to hang it's on the tree that he prepared for him literally that H prepared for Mor and the gar comments there's an extra word in this P what do you mean that he prepared for him that hon prepared for morai obviously H prepared it for morai it should just say a that hon prepared why does it have to say that hon prepared for Mori who else did he prepare it other than morai says the he prepared it for himself he thought he was preparing it for Mori but it turns out that all of his preparation was to prepare it for himself and this is not just an isolated incident in the P story like I mentioned this morning every word of kazal rant said is like a bolt of lightning in a dark Forest you see we live in darkness and when a lightning bolt hits it illuminates for Miles Ahead if kazal tell us that H thought he was preparing it for morai but in reality he was preparing it for himself we have to understand this is a prism to how to view all the events of Milla sester and really all the events of Jewish history let's take it from the beginning so you have a little baby you know what this baby's name was he he was going to be big one day his name was MAA and his mother threw him in into the Nile and I have to tell you do you know what a baby's life expectancy is if he gets thrown into the Nile not even 10 minutes I was once in Phoenix Arizona they took me to this Wildlife Reserve where they had albino crocodiles and they look like they're innocuous because they literally don't move that's until the trainer comes in and puts a little slab of meat on the edge of a stick and goes like that and when the trainer claps his hand that albino crocodile swoops on that meat so fast that it could literally go from here to the end of the room and back before your eye could take it in that's how fast they move when a baby floats through the you know what do you call a baby that floats through the Nile call it supper okay babies don't last floating through the Nile and Y had no choice but to throw baby Moshe into the Nile River and the reason she had to is because the Pharaoh made a decree called any Jewish child that is born we're going to throw him into the river because his astrologers predicted that the Jewish savior was going to be born and parrow said I am going to put an end to the Jewish Savior and God is looking down from heaven and he laughs Pharaoh you think you're going to put an end to the Jewish savior watch this Basia is in the river she sees the baby she stretches out her hand she brings in the baby she knows she has to kill the baby but the baby cries she has Mercy on the baby she brings the baby into the palace she's rocking the baby to sleep the baby is ky he can't sleep at night she says Dad Dad do me a favor I can't take this anymore would you mind holding the baby a little bit so the Pharaoh wakes up at 2: a.m. he's rocking this little baby to sleep and he said hey where'd you get this kid from no don't worry I'll tell you later I'll tell you later and then at 3:00 a.m. Pharaoh says I think the kid's hungry and uh Basi says Hey Dad go out to CVS and go get him some formula Pharaoh says I'm and I'm paying for it yeah put it on your American Express card you're going to pay for it so think about it who where is mosha growing up in Pharaoh's Palace the same Pharaoh that tried to exterminate mosha Pharaoh is raising him he's grooming him he's paying for his education he's feeding him you know that I Ezra writes why did MH have to grow up in the pharaoh's Palace he didn't grow up with the rest of the Jewish people you know why says izra if if mha would have grown up with the rest of the Jewish people he would have had a slave mentality a low morale and he never would have had the Royal bearing necessary to be the leader of the Jewish people so Hashem orchestrated that the Pharaoh the most powerful person in the world should bring up mha should raise mha should groom mha so if mha's tie wasn't straight the Pharaoh would say hey pal you're going to be a king one day you better get your act together you know who made mosu parro made mosu if not for par we wouldn't have toyra today you know what it says in per par no it doesn't say that but if not for him MOA never would have been M the we have t today because of par the same par who wanted to eradicate mha created M let's take this to the PM story let me show you a few examples you know when hamon made a decree to destroy the Jewish people he had to be very discreet about it he had to be very careful about it because he knew if the Jews would get wind that his plan was to eradicate CLA on the 13th day of Adar if they would know what was looming in 12 months they would go to their Governors their Mayors their officials they would bribe the officials and they would get their decree rescinded so hamon was very careful to write two sets of letters did you know that he wrote one set of letter the text of the document to give law in every community in other words you know on the big broadsides on the big posters on the streets of Persian media you know what it said there it said Beware of the eyeses of March be careful for the 13th of Adar and what's going to happen he never wrote in the document what's going to happen he said I'll let you know as the date gets sooner the documents never said what would happen however he sent another set of letters to the governors to the Mayors to the officers he sent the runners men women and children on the 13th of Adar that those letters that information was privy only to the governors and the officials but the official documents only said Beware of this date so later on in the story when Esther reveals her identity and he tells she tells a you know this wicked H he's trying to kill my people said H what do you want from what do you want from me what do you want me to do you think I could retract it I already put my stamp on it I already sealed the documents and the law in Persia is any document signed with the Seal of the m i can't retract it I already Signed Sealed Delivered I can't take it back so es said I have good news you can't take it back the good news is it doesn't say anything on the document it just says beware of that day so why don't we just do a little tweak that instead of we be killed on that day we will kill our enemies you see and you're not retracting anything because the official documents never included that specific information so ham thought he was going going to outsmart CLA and ensure that we wouldn't have the documents rescinded he left it open that now a could just make one little switch and now the whole gazer turns about against him here's another example my time is up it's been a pleasure it's been nice being here in Miami and to hear the rest of the story you're invited to come to New York no I'm joking okay so a has a problem with his wife this is not 2025 America you know in America if a governor a mayor an office officer has a problem with his wife you know you talk it out you go to the specialist you go to the therapist and everybody unloads their Grievances and we have to be have mutual understanding and where we're coming from they didn't do things that way in Persia 2,000 years ago you know what a king did if his wife didn't listen to him in Persia 2,000 years ago you know what he did the next day he had another K that was a different way that they solved marital Strife 20 years ago they didn't go to marriage therapists they didn't go to counselors King Henry had many wives and aash could have easily when he asked vashi to come display herself and she didn't listen he had many recourses that he could have taken advantage of and what does he do when Vash doesn't listen the king said to the wise men who knew the times I don't understand this is Persia 2,000 years ago why is a asking the advice of the wise men of Persia and media what to do with his wife did you know that the Milla itself addresses this question the Milla saysin the law in Persia was that a king could make a unilateral decision whenever he wanted provided that it was a general issue but the moment this was an issue that was personal and relevant to the king the king had a remain unbiased so he had to present the question to the officers of of Persian media that's what it means when it's relevant to the king he had to bring it to the governors of Persia media which is very unusual cuz if you fast forward to the end of the story remember when a is starting to get wind that something's up up with this Hon guy and Esther says this Hon he wants to kill my people he wants to kill the Jews and a is fuming so he goes out of the palace he goes into the garden and he sees that they're knocking down all the trees and all the palm trees and a says who asks you to knock down all the trees in my garden and they said oh this H said we should knock down all your trees and he's fuming he comes back into the palace and we know the story ham took a misstep with Esther and a comes back into the palace and he sees what hamon seems to be doing with Esther and he doesn't know what to do he's fuming you know smoke is coming out of his nose coming out of his ears and there's a man by the name of and he says look look at that tree The Gallows looming in the background I have a great idea hang what does say question why is allowed to make a unilateral decision just to hang H doesn't the law of Persia media dictate that when the matter is relevant to the king himself he has to put it to the sages and to the assembly how all of a sudden is he empowered to make the decision all on his own you know why because there was a man by the name of muhan do you remember muhan who's by the way h said what kind of insane absurd law is this in Persia that you King cannot make a unilateral decision when it's relevant to you I propose a new legislation in Persia from now on any matter of royalty should be issued straight from you you make you unilateral decisions when it comes to every matter of royalty who passed the law in Persia that a could make a unilateral decision even when it comes to him mean who's mean ham Thank You hamon For Preparing your own demise because of your legislation in Persia you've set the table that now when a recommends to have you I'm me going to ask you another English word hanged or hung is hon hanged or is ham hung hanged you sure H hung huh a picture is picture is hung a person is [Music] hanged person is hanged the sons of hamon were they hang or hanged or hung they're dead already so they're like a picture they're Hung okay you got it picture is hanged person is hung a dead person is hung also a picture H is hung person is hang person is hanged but the sons of hamon were like pictures cuz they were dead so they were Hung okay so hamon was the one who set the table for his own demise he's the one he we'll review it after he's the one who created the law in Persia media that the king could make unilateral decision even when it comes to personal matters friends let's take it to the end of the story but the end of the story doesn't end because there's more to the story because after the perm Story the Jews decide that after 70 years of the Babylonian exile they're going to return to the Holy Land and they're going to rebuild the second M mdash but they were poor they were broken they were disheartened they didn't have the resources to rebuild the second M mikdash so they sent word to the King of Persia anyone know who was the King of Persia at the time dares Darius he said dear Darius could you please help us Finance the building of the second basa mikdash so Darius says what do you want from me make a charity campaign make a collection what do you want from me they said please help us out could you please contribute to the building of the second M mikdash and if you look in saer Ezra we read that Darius opened up the Royal treasury of taxes of the king and he personally funded the construction of the second M mikdash and I ask you where did Darius get all that tax money from to fund the rebuilding of the second B mikdash and the answer is the perm story ends that taxed the people he then drops dead his son Darius inherits all the tax money and shortly after the Jews write to Darius to fund the building of the second B mikdash and Darius takes all that tax money and he uses it to rebuild the second basa mikdash so look how the PM story has come full circle the The Story begins that is having a great party and if you ask King what are you celebrating in this party the king would say you know thei Jeremiah predicted that after 70 years the Jews will return and build the second B mikdash the 70 years are up the temple is not be is not rebuilt it will never be be rebuilt I am celebrating the Eternal destruction of the second B mikdash and by the end of M aash has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second bikash but it goes even further cuz if you would have asked pal what are you celebrating at this party a would have said I am celebrating the Eternal destruction of the second temple and God looks down from heaven and he's laughing you're celebrating the Eternal destruction of the temple this party you're going to call vashi she's not going to come you're going to be furious with her you're going to kill her you're marry Esther you're going to have a kid Darius he's going to take all your tax money and he's going to give it to the Jews to rebuild the second Mesa mikdash you think this party is celebrating the Eternal destruction of the mikdash this party is the first parlor meeting to rebuild the second B mikash and now Miller has come full circle it starts thinking he's celebrating the Eternal destruction little does he know it's the first fundraiser to rebuild the bias sheney and that is how Milla sester taxes the people and the money is used to rebuild the second and that is the flash of lightning hon thought he was making the Gallows for marai every plan every machination every scheme of the Russia God says I will hijack it I will co-opt it to bring about great salvation for the Jewish people now why does God work that way very simple we live in a time of great concealment and darkness we are not going to see open Miracles we're not going to see the sea split we're not going to see all the food that's I see how much everybody's eating from this malava Mala all of a sudden gravitate and floate and be individually wrapped and sent to your home in the air it's not going to happen no open Miracles are happening in this world so how do you know Hashem is really there what incontrovertible evidence do we have of the hand of Hashem in the history and Destiny of the world the answer is this is the most open revelation of divine intervention in history where the says I don't need a sadic you give me the biggest Russia you give me his plans his machinations and I will use his plans against him to bring about success and blessing for the Jewish people let me give you two examples you ever hear of Lakewood Yeshiva yeah you know you know where Lakewood is a country in the North in the northern hemisphere know about that it's north of the continent of Brooklyn you know there's Miami there's the continent of Brooklyn there's another continent to the left called the five towns a little bit north of that is LaKeisha does anybody know who built Lakeisha raron Cutler good so you you uh you drank the Kool-Aid excellent and you think raron Cutler built like it's mostly true but there's a little twist the lake with Yeshiva goes back 500 years there was a king by the name of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and they set out an ambition called Rec conquesta to conquer the entire Iberian Peninsula and they conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula there's only one land they still had to conquer Granada the Battle of Granada and they said if Granada would ever fall and they would reconquer the entire Iberian Peninsula they would want to express their gratitude to their false god and sure enough they won the Battle of Granada and to show gratitude to their false god they set about the Spanish Inquisition where they were going to expel or forcibly convert every last Jew in the in the Iberian Peninsula so that there would never again be a hav for the Jewish people to have Tyra to have Judaism and they didn't know this they scheduled the date of the explosion for August 2nd 1492 tshav they didn't know it was Tish has that it should occur on we have evidence from a cabin boy in Seville who he was uh being expelled on August 2nd 1492 Tish his boat is leaving leaving the harbor and he's waving to three ships parked in the harbor that we're going to set sail the very next day on Friday August 3rd and he's he waves to the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria and to Christopher Columbus do you know who paid for the voyage of Christopher Columbus Ferdinand and Isabella because they wanted to expand requesta to the new world little do they know that theam is laughing at them he says you think you're going to destroy Spain the great Haven for the Jewish people not only will you not destroy the Haven for the Jewish people you are going to pay for the discovery of the Lakewood Yeshiva and the Mir Yeshiva and AAS TOA in Miami so that toyra again could have an even greater Haven than it ever had even in Spain who paid for the discovery of Tyra in America Ferdinand and Isabella it was on their dollar it was on their bill it was on their back I'm going to share with you one more historical account in the last 200 years do you know who the greatest enemy of the Jewish people has been many people would say Nazi Germany Hitler you know Hitler only killed 6 million Russia Russia had a plan already in the 19th century many people think that Hitler invented the systematic eradication of the Jewish people the Russian created it but they were just not so good at it you know in Russia if you want to buy a car so you put down $10,000 and the car will come let's say in the year 2047 okay so you put down the money and they're going to call you do you want the car to come in the morning or in the afternoon to the guy he said is it coming morning or afternoon so the car dealer said what difference do make the morning afternoon you know he said well in the afternoon the Plumber's coming I can't come either that's how things work in Russia they're just they took a long time in the 19th century there were between 2 and 4 million Jews in Russia they had a plan they're going to annihilate a third of the Jews expel a third of the the Jews and forcibly convert a third of the Jews so millions of Jews already in the 19th century started pouring out of Russia most Arab aggression of the 20th century was funded by the Russians however in 1948 Stalin who by the way killed 20 million of his own people he got in his head that he prefers Israel in the Middle East over Britain in the Middle East cuz the British were a democratic country Israel were socialists so he figured they would be Communists so did you know in the war of independence Israel was losing the war until Stalin funded the war of independence and provided the ammunition to win the war of independence do you know how Israel won the war of independence because of Stalin and you know when the vote was placed whether to recognize Israel do you know who voted to support the state of Israel Stalin you know why there's T in Isel today you know why you have air Yesa and Aon Yesa and thousands of Tam learning in today thanks to Stalin the says I'm not afraid of the Russia I'm not afraid of his plans I'm not afraid of his schemes you give me the Wicked Man you give me his plans I will Co up and hijacked his plans to bring about what I want for the Jewish people but we'll end with a little bit of a Twist in history because when the state of Israel was established Stalin quickly realized that it may be socialist but it wasn't going to be communist and Stalin was was very unhappy with the state of Israel and with millions of Jews living in Russia so 1953 on February 28th Stalin created the infamous doctor plot where six doctors were charged with trumped up accusations of medical malpractice they were imprisoned and then Stalin built railroad systems from Mainland Russia to the north to Siberia you know Siberia is cold you don't even know what the world word cold means over here okay in Siberia it's between -75 and 95 degrees okay that's that means Stalin was going to transport between 2 and 4 million Jews to the north of Russia within 2 weeks they would all die without being gassed just from hypothermia this was a plan that was in place the railroads were built the railroad tracks were built it was set to go into place March 5th shortly after PM 1953 it was shabis Yad 1953 that night would have been porm and one of the great Russian refus necks ruk zilber was in a forced labor camp and he's telling them tonight we're going to read the story of Pam and in Pam we read about the death and the demise of a wicked arch villain hmon ham and he said we have to have faith in God Stalin we can't be worried we can't be afraid Hashem can knock him off and there was a guy there who got so angry with he said Rabbi stop with this nonsense about hmon and comparing him to Stalin hmon is an oldfashioned anti-semite Stalin is strong like an ox Stalin was never sick a day in his life when Stalin says something it's as good as done what are you what are you saying the railroads are built the Jews are going to be carried away shortly after perm they're all going to be annihilated and zilber said Stalin his flesh and blood he doesn't even know what will be with him in 30 minutes this was at 7:50 p.m. PM night at 8:23 PM night Stalin stroked out he stroked out and no doctor would go near him because they knew about the infamous doctor's plat so they all stayed away from him the jail cells opened wide hundreds and thousands of Jews just walked out of jail nobody went near Stalin rabit zilber said the reason I know to Hill him B it's cuz that night I prayed and I prayed and I prayed that Stalin should drop dead and shortly after Stalin dropped dead and that was the end of the plot and it happened on purm 72 years ago to the day 1953 and then at Stalin's levah the second biggest anti-semite in the world the president of Czechoslovakia was a ruthless dictator and Stalin was angry at him because he helped out the early state of Israel so to Plate Stalin the president of Czechoslovakia shot his entire administration at Stalin's Leva the president of Czechoslovakia came to pay his last respects he came to the body of Stalin and he dropped it on the spot two r with one stone you know as they say two two one we only needed one L PM 1953 when we say that Miracle happens in this time of the year it's there is a powerful light of Salvation that comes down in the month of Adar and on the great day of PM it comes down annually and great miraculous salvations occur for the Jewish people every year during this time of the year and we hope through the great Merit of reading migas Ester and upgrading our amuna in hashem's ability to bring about salvation in the most miraculous ways through the wicked through the plans of the wicked from their hands from their hands we hope in our times as well we need it more than ever May the bring great yeshu for is and we should be to see the great yesu of the coming of Amen thank you