Purim: The Golden Scepter of Achashveirosh - The Golden Scepter of Hashem

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay AR tinest this will be our last share together before purm so we want to uh delve into an aspect of Milla we have never Del delved into before and that is the sh of the golden scepter of say when the king saw Queen she found favor in his eyes and the King extended for the golden s that was in his hand and Esther approached V and she touched RAB you kidding me the scepter was in his hands I thought it was in his ears I thought it was in his nose where else is the scepter going to be why does the PK say the scepter that was in his hands I mean how would you extend it if it would not be in his hands but he somehow wedged it in in between his neck and and his and his shoulder obviously it's in his hand we have no no we didn't no so the gar says about this scepter of that something miraculous happened and that is the says three appeared at that time one lifted up her neck one extended extended a thread of Grace upon her and one that extended the deceptor what was the second one another was one made her look appealing and the other one extended the shet how much it was two made the 12 six times as long some say 16 say 24 some say some say 60 what are we counting here and some say some say no how far it was 200 am we doing the length of the scepter or how far not the length of the tripod the length of the scepter yeah so we have many different accounts on how long the scepter was obviously this is all miraculous whether there was 12 or 16 or 24 or 60 or 200 now what exactly the meaning of this it's unclear but one thing is for sure there's a say for who often quotes from the of and he wants to know on this that for the it extended many many am so that she should not be that means like this the then reached all the way to Esther so then why does the say Esther approached Esther approached would mean his scepter was like this he stuck it out and Esther had to walk till he she reached it but if it stuck if it went all the way to Esther then why does it have to say it should just say Obviously the purpose of the miracle is so that Esther should not have to exert herself well if that was the purpose of the miracle why does the P say just say well while we're on the topic of sticks right there's a famous Mitzvah carry a big stick but who else had a stick it's going to turn into blood I'm going to hit with the stick that's in my hand and it's going to turn into blood again it says the stick that's in his hand really that the stick was uh in his basement obviously the stick was in his hand also take in your hand what else what else should he take it in obviously one thing we know about this special stick of M there was something inscribed on the stick what was inscribed on the stick says you know was sced on the stick by the way where did MOSI get the stick from not from the tablea true and not from King Arthur where did he get it from says was in's garden thank for all the Miracles he saw a stick that was [Music] created K what was on the stick the y h very interesting y not a regular stick wasn't a bat wasn't an aluminum bat a wooden bat it was a stick with the y k says look at number seven he can't grab it with his elbow it is known that the name of if is in order when is in order it's when it's backward we have in the Milla me is now how the is ends in a The Who begins in a the V begins with a V and the who begins with a he but is y backward so and we're going to get into this a little bit further y forward is backward is therefore when Mo needed to hit the river he needed to use what if he needs if he's going to bring a Mak right he's going to cause so he basically has to take the stick and turn it upside down and by The Rock in other words when had to bring water for the people he needed to how bring the water with the stick forward cuz he needed to be bring water he to bring so now it's clear with what hit the stick normally hit the held the stick forward but now he needs to hit the RO the the the river with the of the stick that was what normally in his hand says I'm gonna hit with the part of the M which is normally in my hand because that was by the it was then he had it to take like this by the river the Nile River he needs to hit the river with the part of the stick that's normally in his hand in other words here it says you kov K forward he would normally hit it he would normally hold it you would kave ofk forward but now he has to take the part of the stick that's in his hand and turn it backward to bring din on the Nile he has to turn it upside down so the part of the stick that's normally in his hand he has to hit the river with but then in B when he's bringing water to the people Hashem says the M that you that you hit the Y which which part of the stick did you hit the Y the part that's normally in your hand now take that part and put it back in your hand this way you'll bring ra to that's how that is how the understands the BYU hitting the river he he put the stick backward but to bring water for clao he put the stick forward so what's the normal position should be normally he would hold it Forward good cave off you cave but in order to hit the river he had to flip it that's why Hashem said the part that's normally in your hand um hit but now when he comes to hit the Hashem says with that part take that part and put it back in your [Music] hand that's how understands it coming to Esther coming to Esther it says again obviously the was so why does it have to say that Esther right he goes without saying number two why would it have to say Esther approached what's she approaching for it reached her reached yeah says of sh like this normally when a extended his scepter he extended it a certain way maybe he had like a golden handle and he would extend the Lesser part to people who he allowed entrance but now his dear Queen is coming in now he wants to show special favor to her so he took the special part that he normally keeps in his hand and he extended the special part that's normally in his hand to Esther that's why the P says the part that's normally in his hand that's what he extended to Esther but Esther wait is that considered the RO the part of the handle the part that's normally in his hand he extended to he extended to Esther is it the RO it's the handle it's the good part gave the handle oh but Esther didn't want to demonstrate that she's getting preferential treatment she didn't want to be M on the she wanted she showed an so she went ahead and said I'm not touching the nice part she walked close to him and touched the part that was normally extended to everybody else to show that she's not she she doesn't deserve any special she's a a wife of the king okay so that's the meaning um that's why it says turned over the scepter he took um so Esther was being extended the nice part but Esther didn't want to utilize that and therefore V Esther despite the fact that the nice part extended all the way to her Esther walked all the way up to the upside down okay very good comes our and theel says like this where's that number three number four yeah yeah yeah because he had he took the PARTA took the part that's normally in his hand with forward and he flipped it to make create yeah okay so comes the and the adds you'll be the first to know that adds that the concept of the Y forward and backward is a central theme in the battle between hamon and Esther how is that we know that they're 12 months a year yeah and each one of the 12 months corresponds to another permutation of so there are 12 ways to spin the YK V you could have y v you could have y y k v you could have y v KK you could have KK V the month of Nissan is forward when God's name is forward that's complet why did pick the month of because the permutation of Y in the month of Adar is hey and then a and then a he and then a y which is completely backward it's a month of complete and that is why hamon picked the month of Adar says number 10 this Remember by [Music] that's why H made a rem hashem's name backwards H made a rem V K backwards hey he but Esther wanted to counteract that so what did Esther [Music] say so the battle is Hon's going backwards Esther's going forwards wow but when hon head is downfall the P says right we have you have the okay backward in number 12 in number 13 you have es forward but when is having his downfall it says he what is that forward why the answer is but it's so the by he writes like this he brings down this idea from the AR that they're 12 months a year and each month of the year has a different permutation of the Y and hamon picked the because it's y backwards thought H didn't pick the M came by a that's what you thought huh was fixed um all the GS were knew that that's why ham said the words with backward but Esther says forward now but the problem here is why by the the Mel of course and we're going to be utilizing this is what the med says in number 12 in number 11 it refers to whenever it says it could refer to it could also refer to so when Esther says the here refers to if that's the case the one why would she be he says like this he says Esther could not say here she says she's using you K but why is she being mam to it the answer is here she's trying to effectuate on she's trying to create ra for and she's trying to create for H so the r for isum and the but the is in the fact that it's so comes the and he says if you're the idea of that the M of depending on the direction of the mat would either be creating ra and that's why brought water to CL so he kept the stick forward and when mosha brought punishment he turned the stick backward and this idea that the battle between hamon and Esther was in whether we're going to pronounce y forward or pronounce it backward we could add another nugget to what happened with and Esther and that is the following says when Esther comes to the king this king that's extending the sh according to the med is not only King is also the and it's extending his the thing is that the says that zah represents and is holding his sh that's the sh of like the says and on this stick it had the sh who to punish the that are but says ream to Esther look in this time in this period of history when CLA bowed down to the and there were from the the sh was when but now Esther is going in to the king she's and the King sees her and what does the king [Music] do who's holding a with he flips around the shab haav why that is telling Esther this sh which is in my hand I'm giving it over to you the sh has of that I'm holding I'm giving it to you I'm presenting it to you because we know thear says in Suka that the are able to overturn like the says so to the so what does Esther do look in the paragraph that begins when saw that she found favor in the eyes of the king that the king is giving her the he wants to make a PO she wants to act in a way to be and therefore she approaches and she touches the the top of the sh in other words she doesn't touch the edge of the that the King extended to her because when hasem extended the Hashem extended it backward but Esther instead goes and she takes right because the is extending the sh the sh says but from Esther's vantage point the other way so instead she goes and she touches the so now in other words from the Ream's vantage point the is forward from the vantage point of from the Ream's vantage point you have forward from the vantage point of the recipient it's backwards so Esther says look we need to be we need to be to forward and that's why Esther even though the miracle happened that the sh extended Esther went and she grabbed the front part of the top of the shet last paragraph that the [Music] two the first and when he had to be he held it straight and we had to be he held it backwards words and the second that the M extended to Esther the sh to show that he's giving her the ability to the two fit together beautifully in other words just like says that extended to Esther the flip side of the stick he extended to her what he extended to her the part of the stick that's normally in his hand well so Now esther is grabbing the the top part the forward to demonstrate that she indeed has turned over you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com