Purim & Tetzaveh .... up to Half the Kingdom

Okay, good evening everyone. This is our final shar before Purim and Parab this year are dedicated by the Israeli family of great for her whole family. The s the shafer shamis the shum anafer shamis are dedicated by Dr. And tonight she cheer is dedicated by my dear friend and zean is one of the very dedicated ministers in memory of's mother whose yard site is tonight Bry Leia Bas a Vikdar Yakov Halevi who is naras Tess Adar Tshin Ayen Zion. She should be Malita Yusara for her whole family, for her beloved husband, my dear friend Rabin Yammen and for all of her children for Albadak. Tonight she is dedicated by my dear friend Arian Michelle Jacobson for Shalma for Ben for Shalma. Okay, we have an amazing topic tonight. But before we do that, I want to make sure you're all prepared for uh for Purim. First of all, as you know, the safer is out. It's available in America. Oh >> wow. In America. >> Rabbi, I don't know if it's going to work. >> No, it's not. It's not. But anyway, I'll tell you a little misa, you know, because you heard the story with Kushalvki. That's what's that going to do for you? >> Put it in like someone's ear or something. I don't >> What's this going to do? >> Yeah. >> No, no, no. Anyway, um recently it was in the news. You know, there's a store on the Lower East Side. You heard about this? A store on the Lower East Side. They weren't having customers and all of a sudden somebody reported that there was a Holocaust survivor working there and people started flocking into the store. It was on the news. But here's the backstory. The backstory is an hour before the guy was he couldn't get people into the store. So he called a friend of mine and my friend said, "Why don't you start learning?" So an hour before the customers started pouring in, he started to learn the safer. I'm not saying anything. I'm not into school. I'm just telling you the facts. This was in the news. Anyway, make sure you're prepared with the concealed and the revealed. Big size, small size. David, you have both? >> I have both. >> Okay, that's the right answer. Even if you don't, but that's good. >> And the Hebrew. You have the Hebrew yet? >> No. >> Okay, we'll have to take care of that. Okay. Um, so here we go. We have a a bunch of very interesting and important questions on this man. The migill begins. It was the third year of his reign. So it says when he showed the wealth of the honor of his kingdom and the glory of the splendor of his greatness. Now what in the world does it mean he showed the glory of the splendor of his greatness? So it says big day put on the priestly vestments. How do we know? It says here and it says in par which by the way you know that the Hebrews they read this week this week is big. So it says the word by the big day kahuna and it says byash from here we learnash put on the big day kahuna friends that's strange that is just weird why is he wearing big day kah kah kah kah kah kah kah kah kah kah kahuna he's having a party they're drinking there they're doing other bad stuff that we're not we can't even talk about the last thing what he's putting on a costume it's not even pur yet this there's no such thing as pur why is wearing the priestly vestments What was that all about? Why is wearing the vestments of the That is question number one. Question number two. >> Now, let me just explain something. This is a this is not an interactive shar. Yeah. >> No, no, no. This is not an interactive share. >> It will be a very dynamic shear, a very exciting shar. And even when I ask questions, that doesn't mean I want your answer. Okay? So, just just to keep it. >> So, we have to we may have to reach the uh >> we got to we got to move this over. Okay. >> A little bit. >> Okay. [snorts] >> More. >> No, no, no, no. Here. This is what we're going to do. How's this? This is fine. Good. So, the first question is why is wearing the big day kuuna? Next question. It talks about the party that made it's a very extravagant party. It says did that do you have any any idea what I just said? I know you know the tune. What What is this? This is talking about the tapestries, the colors of the linen. Does this add to your purim experience? When you're enjoying on when you're enjoying purim, are you thinking about this? How does this add enhance your sim? By the way, how many items are mentioned over here? One pass two last three six all together things. Now, if you're going to say, which the Gomorrah does say that the beds were a mix of gold and silver, they're still 13 because the 13th is the maleim. So, there 13 things. Okay, we don't really need to know about any of them. Why are they mentioned? Why is this included in the megala? Now, here's the whopper. The whopper over here is the Akash is making a party and every good party has alcohol but he wants to people to enjoy to get a little tipsy to get a little high. So the Pik says the drinking was according to the law. Nobody was coerced. What law? What laws are there about drinking? So the Gmorrah says what laws the laws of the Tyra just like according to the Tyra. You eat more than you drink. Now most alcoholics drink a lot more than they eat. But according to the Tyra, you're supposed to eat more and drink less. So to that there was more food than drinking. So can you imagine at the suda or there were guys there were drinking a lot said no no no no bring me the so they took out and there it talks about says it says in that at a suda that you have to drink more you have to drink less than you eat. So they said but but our mother's not Jewish maybe if your mother's not Jewish it's different. So said look in the daru notes in the daru notes it says that even if your mother's not Jewish you should still eat more than you drink. You're telling me followed for he's he's bringing zo out into the party. Okay he asked he asked Vashi to come display yourself but now he's following the Mishna Bura regarding drinking the alcohol. What what is this supposed to mean? And to make matters worse, there's a says, "Now, by the way, how do you know you eat more than you drink?" Because by carbon, you bring a whole cow and three ten of of an apha of soyless and for the misbay and you pour only a ofen. So akaj made his party the the drinking alcohol his party followed the da carbono in the mikdash asked to take out say for vayikra he took out and he learned out okay yeah that's how I want to have my party I mean that's sounds ridiculous that sounds absolutely ridiculous so why is akashesh following the dyra when it comes to >> the party and this question uh Rav Morai Kamineski Rashiva here in Tusim he wrote a sill he sent it to me last year in his cafer he brings uh this particular question on on the uh medish and the yakoi furthermore the pik talks about the advisers of okay so so far we have a bunch of questions why is he wearing big day kahuna why do we need to know the items that were part of his party why is he following regarding the drinking then the says these are the seven advisors I need to know their names I really need to know their names. It's important. You know the guys, you know the people in the state of the union, you know their names. Besides the two guys behind Hamel Trump, you know anyone else's name besides the people screaming. Nobody knows their names. So the we have to record every year. We have to read twice. You know how long it takes to get that down? I need to know these Persian guys names. Why do so? The Gmorrah says no we have to dion all of these names all of these were said for the carbon it saysam did the nations of the world ever bring rams that were a year old ken shana like claw brought before You shar did they ever bring two turtle doves masa did the nations of the world ever build a you're going to destroy Israel the nations of the and then what who's going to take over the nations of the world they never brought carbon they never built a they never brought sarish did they ever serve before you with big day kahuna like it says yash so here it'sing Amazing. Maybe akash knew this garra. He must have known the garra because the angel said the nations of the world never wore a big day kuna. So now could say I am wearing the big day kahuna. Then um merest did they ever stir the blood in front of you. Did they ever mix the before you? Did they ever bring the upon him? Isn't this very strange that the the angels are arguing that you need to save the Jewish people not because they take of an not because they blowif not because they learn to not because they don't bring phones into aul you know why they you know why you should save the Jewish people because of all the carbon that they bring where do the carbon come in why are we emphasizing the carbon this also uh Rabbi Kamki brings this question in his but let's take this further there seems to be one particular really big sore po point throughout the story he keeps on telling Vashi he keeps telling Esther listen whatever you want give you my American Express platinum card whatever you like just one thing till half the kingdom says migillah what is the king is telling the queen now you have to realize as far as he's concerned she's from North Korea he doesn't know where she's from she says I'll give you anything up to half the kingdom >> [clears throat] >> the what's the thorn in the what's what's the sharp nail in the musc one thing I'm not going to do is I'm not going to build the bas mikdash I don't understand this lady she she has nothing to do with the Jewish people as far as he's concerned and why didn't why didn't he say you know I'll give you whatever you want but I'm not eating a matza ball That's one thing I'll never do. Where did he dream up that? That's the one thing he wouldn't agree to do. Why would he think she would have anything to do with this? Why was the Bikdash such a problem for why? And by the way, the whole story starts off that is throwing this big bash and what's he celebrating? McGillah says that he made a calculation that the prophet Jeremiah Yeria said that after 70 years of Galisbl that Hashem is going to restore the Jewish people and they're going to rebuild the base mikdash and calculated 45 years of and 23 years of ead and two of his own years 70 years are up. Oh, seven years are up. Bas Mikd is not built. Time to celebrate. Why does he care about the B mikd so much? Why didn't he celebrate before? As if there's the only cause for celebration in this world would be if the B mikdash is not built. Obviously the B mikdash was a big sore point for that means he wasn't willing to celebrate until he was absolutely certain that the B mikdash will never be built. So there are a lot of unusual things over here. The man is deranged. What? Yeah, that's what right. What is that's what Trump calls people that he doesn't like. Right. They're deranged. Right. Demented. They're demented. That that is weird. He's putting on the big day kahuna. Why would he put on the big day kahuna? Okay, I understand. They destroy the ba mikdash. By the way, he didn't even destroy the basa mikdash. He didn't destroy the bame mikdash. So what does he care about the big day kahuna? Why would he put on big day kahuna? Just an odd thing to do. He's going to put on a sits on his forehead that says I mean he looked bizarre. What? And why does McGill record all of these various uh tapestries that were used in the party of why is he legislating that the drinking at his party has to be it seems like the heavenly argument against was no no no we're not going to let him cause harm for the Jewish people because they never bring carbonis they never bring they never built the never mixed they never mixed the or the upon him what exactly is big problem with the bikdash so this proposal begins in the great commentary migillis called migillasarim of the bal nivos hamishbakov lur burbam the niv hamishbad in the The two classic is and the advances an idea that he uses throughout his perim. So for example he says as follows you know remember in parasyak by the generation of the dispersal they they made a migdal they made a migdal and they were going to use this migdal to fight hashem what exactly were they doing they knew there's an almighty god so they're going to build a building a bigger building a taller building the heavens are higher than any skyscraper what exactly are they trying to construct? So the hamishb in his parish on he says a very important idea in the for that whatever exists in this world for kadusha exists for tum and if there's a city in this world that generates kadusha call it yushim then there can be a city that an oppositional force to yushim with the same capacity for tumal is for kadusha and if there's a mk inim that generates kadusha then there could be a place in the city of tum that is an equal oppositional force and that will be called the mgdal the purpose of the tower of baval was to create a place to generate the force of tum commensurate with what and bdash is for kadusha the dha was going to build an ear and a migdal and a mo to generate tum and that was the plan of akash. Akash knew that once the bikdosh is built he is going down. They had a tradition that once the bame mikdosh is built he would be uh a non- entity and he was very saddened by it. In fact he never considered himself a king. So you know how the migillah starts the migill says what do you mean that's kingash to you nowhere else in the migilla is he called just why of a sudden it starts it should say no the story starts off that he's haunted and he's frightened and he's scared because he knows that it's any day the Jews return into Israel they rebuild their base mikdash and he becomes a non- entity but what happened when made his calculation that maybe it's time that this ba mikdash will never be built again decides that what is and the mikdash is for kadusha he's going to make an oppositional force for so what he does is Habra. Now you know what else is called Bra. You know the Bikash is called Bra. Really? Yeah. Look, it's not on the sheet. The last place the live noise I want my son to build the mikdash. You know what mikdash is called? The beer. So says okay we're making a place that's going to oppose the real. It's called shushan habira. Otherwise where does this name? You ever see the word berra before? You could look through the whole kish. You could look anywhere. It doesn't say berra. Where did get this berra from? The answer is he's trying to create an oppositional force to the mikdash which inim is called. So he decides he's going to build a city. It's called shushan habira. And in it in his palace it's going to be an oppositional force to the base ham mikdash. And in it he's going to generate tuma by bringing every lwid promiscuous activity to get the Jews to stumble and to sin. Why in because morai was there and the sadikim were there. And if you topple the sadikim the rest of the nation will follow. And what aashers are trying to do now in also lived the satum hmon and his 10 sons. The 10 sons were y from the 10 forces of tum. Now even though they taught you in that ruled the whole world and the gar migillah does say he ruled the whole world that was in the beginning but the story starts off that he lost a good chunk of his medina he originally ruled over 254 Medinos. Now he's down to 127 but he realized that in all the Jews were under his reign. And he figured if God allowed him even though he's not ruling over the whole world to rule over all the Jews, he will be successful in destroying them. And therefore he made a great suda. And at the suda he was establishing shushan habira as the oppositional force to the the mak mikdash. And you know what he says the purpose of the mikdash is to bring sacrifices to the almighty. So we need to mimic the mikdash. And the only way he's going to do that is he's going to have to wear special clothing. And he's going to put on the big day kahuna to show that what the khanim dawned the kadusha and the mak mikdash he and his oppositional mikdash is going to dawn the vestments of the kay and he will generate tumah and a commensurate force to the way it was in the makdash inim now it's very interesting Because designated 13 ingredients. And how many ingredients were used to make the mishkun and parasuma zahim and bisim 13 rashi says 13 ingredients says rebel of now we understand Why Akash designated 13 ingredients in creating his party? Because what Akash is trying to do is he's trying to generate tuma commensurate to the mishkan. He's trying to counteract the kaduca ofim. He's trying to counteract the kaduca of the mak mikdash. And whatever the mikdash and the mishkan and the kahhanim did for kadusha is trying to divert it to the kayak. So he puts on the big day and he says if they generate kadusha by eating more than they drink, I'm going to counteract precisely and I'm going to legislate that when they drink at my party to go sin, they're going to follow the same rules. They're going to follow the same protocol. Everything akash did at his suda was to mimic in his demented distorted version of a temple in Shushanhab which the purpose was to uproot the kadusha of the mikdash. Now we understand why counted 70 years. He was not willing to celebrate until the 70 years were over. What does he care? What difference does it make whether the 70 years are over? The purposes of was not satisfied. He was not content. He was not free of anxiety until he felt that according to the calculations the ba mikdash would not be built. That's the whole background of the story. That's the whole introduction to the story. We need the 70 years to be up for to begin his party. Now, it's interesting that the the Medish Talpio brings a Medish. By the way, the medish talpio is not a medish. The safer medio is a collection of ancient sources of reba and he brings similar to the gar but not exactly that as this party is going on the heavenly angels argue to hashem you know hashem if you destroy the Jewish people who's going to bring toim for you who's going to make a who's going to stir the blood who's going to bring the upon him in other words the defense that the angels came up with is you're going to let this create this center of tum. He will never he will never counteract through his worship of tuma to be able to counteract the kaduca that generated. He's not going to bring carbon. He's not going to go through all the rituals. He's not going to have all the protocol. There's no way he could ever muster up his for the to to to counteract the force of kadusha that kal generates says kept on saying listen Esther you're a great wife that's why I married you but there's one thing my honor is dependent on the fact that I've created this capital in Shushan and I've and the Jewish people are down for the count because I know when the if the day would ever come that the Jewish people will build the temple says all the Naveim are full of prophecies that in the end of days when Msiah comes all the rulers of the world the kings will serve you. Who's that talking about? That the meliach all the world leaders. Last night's individual included, all the world leaders will serve the Malik Mashiach. The leaders of North Korea, the leaders of Iran, the leaders of England, the leaders of France, the leaders of the United States, they'll all serve the Malik Mashiach. They will service you. By the way, you ever hear of King David? King David had the following slogan. From the river to the sea. You ever hear that? It's a pussimy. They all they take all of our slogans, you know, in our lifetime. Hm. Where where does that? Yeah. Where where' that ever come from, you know? So, aka was haunted by these prophecies. The says now thought that as soon as the second temple would be built he'd be down for the count. That would be the end of his reign. So the migill starts off. What do you mean he's the king? He doesn't even care he's the king because every night he's having nightmares that the Jews are going to build a temple and he's going to be like shupping stones for the for the next Davidic king. He's going to be servicing them. He's going to be he's going to be serving them. He's going to be waiting on them. So didn't even recognize his own sovereignty. But in the third year of his reign, what happened in the third year of his reign? It's year 70. The prophecy didn't come true. The temple is not being built. Maybe he will be king forever. Sasher makes a great suda. But the question is, this is the strangest thing in the world. How long does he make this party for 180 days? That's bizarre. That's like where did he come up with that name? You know, they said they asked the different people, how long do you want to have the party for? One guy said uh 26. One guy said 101. A said 10 times kai. You know where where did where did he get where'd he get 180 from? But he he became Jewish. Only Jews do things 180. You ever wonder you know he's giving $180. What kind of ridiculous number is that? No 10 times kai. But aer said you know what it's the whole thing he's trying to counteract kaduca. So he went to into the shul that he heard 180 180. So they asked, "How long do you want to have your zenus out there?" He said, "10 times like the same way they do it in the sh, you know, where did he get the number 180 from?" He took the average. He he took a look at the checks that went into the local yeshiva and he said, "Okay, let's do 180. Where does 180 come from?" And the most bizarre thing is that when the 180 is over, he said, "Oh, now let's really party." So he had another seven days. Okay. So 187 like what's at 18? Whoever gave a check for $187, where'd he get that from? And then he asked Vashi to come out and she said, "I'm not coming. You can't even hold your alcohol. You're you're a wimp. My my dad, he could drink all the alcohol in the world. And uh you know, he was as as as quick as ever and you drink a little bartinura and you're down for the count. So Aar didn't know what to do with his wife. What do you do if you don't know what to do with wife? Who do you speak to about it? Who do you speak to? Don't tell me personally. I'm just I'm singing general. Yeah, you could speak to the the rabbi, the shaw. You could speak to a therapist, marriage counselor. Very rarely do people go to stargazers if they have a problem with their wife. Why don't he go sit on the couch with a with with a therapist? No, he's going to astrologers. What's that? What's that all about? Get a load of this. It's year 70. The niia said when 70 years are up, the bame mikdash will be built. The Jews will return. And they never returned. And was not built. So figures he's good. He's going to be the king now. There's nothing going to be challenge him. Nothing will ever challenge his reign. And then says, "Wait a second. When exactly are this should I start the 70 years? Because the kings of the nations of the world count their reign rashana time. That's in other words the kings of the nations of the world count from rashash after tishab that first tishabove when the first p was destroyed he counted on rashash shana okay now let's start year one year two 70 years are now up let's party so he threw a bash but he says you know what the truth is I'm a gentile king but when god said 70 years maybe he meant by the Jewish calendar so maybe it doesn't go by tish Maybe it really goes by. So we have to count how many months 6 months 180 days because I can't be certain that the B mikdash won't be built unless Nissan comes. So he says let's start partying now but we'll really get going. Let the party really get started in Nissan. So he parties 180 days. >> 180 from Nissan or >> from Tish meaning from Tish. He figured he's a gentile king, so the 70 years should be up by Rashashana. But he's not certain 100% that his sovereignty is solidified until Nissan comes because maybe it goes by the Jewish calendar. Comes Nissan. Now we're going to really party. Then that's when a celebrates bashan habira cuz he figured nothing's going to stop him. He's passed all the deadlines. But vashi still doesn't come. So what do you do in the ancient times? What happened when your wife didn't listen to you? You make another you know make another one. And where did she go? Away. But says I have to call. You know why? Because if it really goes by the Jewish calendar, it might not be Zionisa. Now, who would know if it's an who would know if it's a leap year says who are the from they knew they knew whether it was going to be two so not until determined that not only passed not only passed but that it's not anarish in one of his many calculations why called one of This way was absolutely certain that the 70 years had passed. And if you could you could take a look over here about what Akashur's plan was and why he asked Vashi to uh appear the way that he requested. And the description of that is not for a general audience, but I'll let you look on your own. And I'm sure with that introduction everyone will look on their own. What was [laughter] so um that's uh quotes alabit what the kavana of was and I'll tell you exactly where it is off the camera. Okay. [laughter] So uh this is really the uh amazing understanding of the backstory of McGillisester where Akasher was haunted that his reign would be challenged, his reign would be unseated and that the Jewish people would ultimately uh usurp his throne. And according to he was haunted by all the prophecies of Yeshaya and him inim that predict that in the rebuilding of the second bish nowad says a didn't know that these things will only happen when msiah comes he thought when the ni said that when the temple is built the kings will serve you he thought that's as soon as they build even the second temple nowad says that it could be it would have been fulfilled when they built the second temple because kazal say that had all the Jews come back with Ezra, that would have been the final redemption. But Akash was haunted by this. So he tells Esther, "Listen, Esther, I don't know where you're from. I don't know if you're from Wyoming, you're from Nebraska, you're from Idaho, you're from Mexico. You got in through the border for the southern border. I don't know how you came in here, but one thing's for sure. I'm the Melik. That's the starting point. I don't have you until I know the 70 years are up." Listen, was very mahm. First he waited till Rashashana, then he waited till Nissan, then he went to sh to find out when the moat is, you know. He wanted to hear is it Roshesh Adoresh Nissan and he created this this city of Tuma. By the way, today also there cities of tum you know on the west coast in a certain one of the states there's a city there that I don't know maybe that's they're there today they're cities of Toma. They're mimo of tum. >> Which one? What's your name? >> SF. Okay. So, and they're mai and whatever exists in this world exists for Tuma and Akash very carefully orchestrates this whole uh capital of Tuma, this whole epicenter of Tuma. And he's going to wear the same clothing as the Cayenadal. And he's going to put an end to the kaduca generated by the mikdash and all the kaduca generated by carbono. And he's going to follow to the tea the laws of carbon. Friends, do you think then it's a coincidence that the parish that we read the weeks before purim are truma and building the kadusha of the mishkan the kadusha of the big day kayen. You think it's a coincidence? No. It's what this is the greatest example of these are the most appropriate paras. People wonder what do these paras have to do with purim. What do you mean? They're the whole foundation of purim. the whole uh surah that was in trying to uproot the kadusha of the mikdash and the kadusha of the big day kahuna and the kadusha of so every year as a preparation for purim we rebuild the mishka we rebuild the the big day says that when you learn about the mishkan it's like you built it when you learn about the big day kahuna it's like you made it we're we're coming against um we're coming against we're coming against his big day. By the way, you know also say that the reason why we give in on the beginning of is because when Ham came to give his skull to destroy the Jewish people. So we tell Hammon, Hashem said, "No, no, no, no. We already beat you to it. Israel already gave the hash and before Hmon came to pay his shekel to destroy the Jewish people. So again the asks what are Kazal saying somehow it it implies that we tell Hammon no no no no we beat you to it. We already gave our sash before you paid your skull. As if Hammon has a that he paid money to destroy the Jewish people. What hun has a mitzvah of giving money to why do we need to counteract the skull of ham says in the in his commentary on the migillah no when hammon was giving the skullim he was trying to generate tumah by giving the skullim the same way we generate kadusha by giving the skullim so it's a battle of the the various respective forces that we generate kadusha by paying money to the bed kabayas to rebuild build the mikdash to build to bring the carbon and pays money to be able to destroy. The thing is we beat him to it. We give it on and Hmon was a little was too late in the game. But basically all of these various practices that it looks like is wearing these clothing and Hmon is giving the skullim. It's it's based on the principle that every venture and arena of kadusha has an equal and opposite force of tumah which really means that vice versa all the various things in this world that generate tuma that means there ways that we could use it to counteract that and to generate kadusha that is uh Everything in this world has opposite forces. You know um Yakov Kamki would point out that the the Rambam talks about dismisses certain concepts that the Gumarra talks about dismisses demons or dismisses some of these supernatural ideas that the Gumarra talks about. And the villag was very upset with the Rambam. The vagin said you know how is the Rambam questioning the basic premises that are found in the Gumarra. And Kamaskki explained no of course the Ram believed in demons. Yeah. When people were on a supernatural level of Kadusha there was an opposing force of Toma called Shadim. Nowadays when our forces of Kadusha are diminished are watered down. So likewise there you know we went from uh navua. So when there was nva there was sorcery and then toesh when there's there were shadim and then and now you know we're left with uh we're left with a little bit. So this is the eternal struggle between the forces of kadusha and the forces of tum and it really gives us an amazing insight into the paras that we read. Truma about the Mishkan about the big day about these are all these pars are the main things themes that were being counteracted by >> said listen whatever you like I just never going to rebuild the B mikdash that will never happen I'm never going to allow that because that would be a challenge to all of his authority it happens to be that says elsewhere where that at the end of the story he dropped that and he let them build a base mdash. You know why? Cuz now that Esther is Jewish and he has Daraveesh as his son. So the next king >> could be his son. He could he could be operating both kingdoms. So it didn't pose the same challenge to him. Okay. Okay, I want to wish everybody and we should be that just like Hashem made miracles for Israel, we hope during these days to see miracles. >> [clears throat]