Purim: The True Tale of Vashti's Tail and Whatever Happened to Achashveirosh

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com so I want to thank RAB shabas for the kind introduction it's a great cover to be in Rab shab's B he's renowned all over the world so it's uh very humbling to be in uh the RS bakes I want to thank the sponsors of tonight's cheer R Hartman andari Schwarz and ther Schwarz and I want to thank raran subar for uh help helping organizing tonight's event along with the KY dersu and I want to welcome all of the who came this evening I want to also begin with a little bit of a disclaimer I think this is already the second or third time they had the opportunity to speak here so we already had a few Lum and now it's uh before PM so to get a little bit into the PM spirit this year is going to be a little bit different a little bit unusual so bear with me uh this is not going to be the typical sh but um it's going to be something uh very inspiring and very important one of the most important in M possibly the most well-known p in mest is the one of the four Pim of G that the whole says out loud V and one of the reasons why it's such a well-known p is because it's been incorporated as part of havdalah and not only is it a but it's a legislated already by the already mentions that one of the that we say in the it's quite nice how every M shabas and especially this year where mat shabas and have really is ushering in the the great day of PM but it's a beautiful thing that every shabas we're invoking in fact we even add our own we say we don't do that to any of the other mentioned in in havala we say a lot of but nevertheless it's the that that should bring upon us in our times as well so that's very important to note that this is a central idea in but what's very interesting is that is not the only mention of and not the only connection that we have in hav to there's an ancient and it's already brought down in the Tor in the that is part of the the is to take and to use it for for B and the tour says what's the inion of putting the with the B to use for B so the Torah says says the we Lan it on every ESS we say we mention in the the opposed to that is the in the place of the in the place of the nettle in the place of the thorn Yas arises the Myrtle arises the so we have and we have the mention of and therefore the tour says it's correct it's a beautiful minog to use in as brings down the same that we put in the because of of the position of and but you know this we know the says that when they would give Shear about the the Milla they would not just open with by learning the Milla straight they would always introduce it they'd always introduce it with a p right he began his you nowadays fortunately a rabbi comes somewhere they they have to begin with a joke but you know back then they were smart they know when rabbis say jokes most most people don't find them funny right so so might as well start with if it's going to be a bad joke you might as well start with the the gives 13 different introductions that various gave as their the says that the the he made himself into brings refers to who arises in his place the m is the is called he's the choicest of all the B he's the finest of all the like the says says so immediately sort of your mind is triggered when you think we have what about the Bim the Bim itself is a Remis toor so you have the you have the which is REM you have the which is but the the in the of the refers to by the way just just as an aside it's very interesting you know how many times is Esther appear in the Mig as so says only one time and how many times does Esther's name appear in the Migel 54 times how many times does H's name a in 54 times how many times as one time corresponds perfectly it's amazing thing by the way bear that in mind 54 H what's the gatria of is 54 say what am I going to wipe out I'm going to wipe out the 54 times that H has mentioned in the Milla if you take the 54 says the how many letters in the we have a little bit of a different 54 letters in the so there's anion that by the way there's just as an aside if you take the shame of the and the is the of the sh corresponds that's hamon hon is 54 the 54 mentions of hon in the Milla wasn't intending to mention this but you know the re has tremendous in fact in the he says that when he reads and when he learns the he says to hear the if you look in the and you count how many in talk about so you have in the end of you have n and then you have three at the end of so n we lay on we're going to lay this coming shabas so you have 12 how many words in the speak about I don't know says yeah in you have how many words 119 words and you have how many words 47 words total of 166 how many millas Esther 166 says the number of words in the Torah about correspond to the number of he says other how many words in there 166 six words in the says because it says in and who's the there's only one and immediately following so these are some of the r of the in any event had we come to that I'm not sure so this is the the remes Hada is the to the so so think about it every it could be in during the three weeks it could be during the nine days it could be it could be and every you're you're remembering you're invoking you're invoking by the way it's a very interesting thing so wants to know let's try to understand I mean why are we invoking P every shab every single shabas doesn't matter what time of the year we're mentioning what's the connection between and so begins to try to develop this idea and this is found in two places in the in the on page says like this you know there was a fight there was whole argument that got that broke out that says so first of all we know you know whenever it says in we have a tradition so on the seventh day that the the king's heart was good with wine who's the king re what's the wine it's shabis it's Friday night it's KES Sayes okay and the gar says that a fight broke out because at the they were eating they were drinking and here the gamor says gamor goes off on a tangent and the gamor says what do y didn't do when they eat and they drink they start to speak and they sing and then the says and what do do when they eat and drink they speak about LD matters promiscuity and they they started to fight which are the most beautiful and this one said like this and that one said like that and said this that you want to take a look and they said yes but under our conditions and that's how it happened that vashi was ordered to go parade herself and the gar asks why did vashi have to suffer this embarrassing and indignant Fai that she had to parade herself in front of all the officials of Persia media and the says this is what Vash used to do to the she was and she made them work on shab and therefore says the had to suffer the same that she tried to inflict on the again another tangent by the way if you look at this the gamar seems to say something random the gamar says the gar is trying to explain how the whole fight broke out that vashi should be ordered to come parade herself but thear seems to say you know it's called a nonse sec with her thear says something which is not connected to anything the gar says and what do y didn't do when they eat and drink y didn't speak okay say what's that gu do with the price of tea in China well you didn't speak we're trying to explain how did it happen that vashi was forced to parade herself in front of everybody why does the gamari even bring up the topic and what do do when they eat and drink who cares what they do it's not the subject here so says an amazing if he came just to hear this it's then says that you can ask what did we do that warranted the worst decree in the history of Cl what did we do already what did we do wrong and the says we were from the so think about what's happening at the time that we were from the the re is already causing that vashi should come out and parade herself and she refuses so she is killed so that Esther has the opportunity to become queen that means is Paving the way for the g at the time of the how does that make sense here CL is are doing the a that incurred the biggest Gaz in the history of is and at that very moment Theon is knocking off vashi so that Esther could take over how could that be why did we here we're being and is already prepared Paving the way so says one second but there was one that CL had that even though they were being from the but what do do when they eat and drink they say at the table and in the of that the set at their table in the entire Yeshua of purm happened so next time you know sometimes sit at the shabas table okay yes says the entire salvation of P happened because of the spoke at the table that was the entire seeds of the Yeshua okay says every if you were to keep a Shas and you didn't have Vash the M down your throat forcing you to do shabas and desecrate the chabas so that means you had to do something that in the times of P they didn't have the opportunity to do you were able to keep shabas every you have to remember could you imagine what would have happened if we would still be under the jurisdiction of we would be able to keep shabas says so there every you need to remember theim the because was that the couldn't keep shabas okay it's still difficult to understand that's the whole thing that's the whole reason why every we have to relive P because Vash was that the couldn't keep shabas I mean also one of the things they were go was against shabas and there's no inion of singing right you ever hear such sing you know what do you mean okay you know let's get past that so what's this what's the inion that every single we have to relive the story of by the way there's more there's more you know the for the it's not enough to have a n say in look at number says it is a choices Mitzvah to make a on a torch says theama a n that has two Wicks is called a torch okay what's that going to do for us well there's another in the on the third column just uses a very interesting terminology says we know that is called by theis it says is is so m is called Dark dark Ness says but there's a med on the is called Darkness M and Esther are called two candles says look at the last words in number what is Mor and like who are they compared to two candles so it's like the entire is reliving the PM story what in the world are we doing Rel living the purm story of M shabas what's that got to do with m shabas the guy in the middle of the N days he's making remember I to say for he wants to add that some have a that when they say they pick up the N they lift up the nare okay I don't know that that it's brought down anywhere but many people do that but LEF lefi what we're saying it comes out very good because the N represent talking the two together so we lift up the we lift up the while we say but there has to be something more to it there has to be a deeper reason why the entire ritual of havdalah is commemorating the miracle of let me tell you very important G the in the beginning of per of M gets up and he makes the following announcement he says good times are coming we're going to make a new day on the calendar and it's going to be a day of sim and everybody says yeah Sim we love Sim we're all great idea and then says M yeah g you know this is our type of God he's our God and then he says y you know he's not our God Y no we're not Mak we don't because what's interesting is later says okay scratch the Y it's going to be M he doesn't mention what happened to in the beginning of says and at the end of par M forgets the Y he doesn't mention Y and the says that's right the were not to eulogize not to fast they were never not to do is it's not a y y means there's no so morai tried to Institute purm as a y when he tried to legislate pm he said we're making a said no thanks and they weren't M it was and it didn't work he could not legislate P the way he wanted says the you tell me if somebody gives you an opportunity to have an extra yum you're not taking him up on the offer why in the world would CLA Isel not accept here we're adding a yump to the C you have an extra day off you have an excuse not to go to work said no thank you what's the why weren't they ma as a yff so by the way we know that Esther had how many maid servants says Esther had seven ma servants why did she need seven ma servants say she would use the maid servants to count the days of the week I don't know about you but counting days a week it's not rocket science what day is you know I don't always know what day of the month it is but I'm usually pretty good with the days of the week and this we're talking about Esther hanva you're telling me she had seven girls who served her she had yenta so yenta was Sunday and Wasa was Monday and she only knew the day of the week by what who was serving her what does thear mean that Esther only knew the day of the week by who was serving her so the re says that Esther had had to come up with a very important plan and the plan is like this the says in the worst thing in this world is to be bored is not to have what to do if a person has too much free time on their hands that's when they get into trouble says men women you got to keep yourself busy remember when I was a B I used to go to Victor Miller so so he said somebody once came to him he said you know rabbi I need a therapist he said no you just need a job you know you you can't have too much people think if they go on vacation then life is going to be better no just just the opposite very often vacation makes things work the best thing is to be busy busy busy busy and then fall asleep at night the second you have too much time to think oh what's going to be with this what's going to be with that it's not good to have too much time to and Esther knew that and Esther knew she has to keep busy but she has a problem what she going to do about chabas she can't just take off the whole week could it takes off the whole week she works six days a week and she rests on chabas then everyone's going to know she's a sh shabas so she had a brilliant plan she had seven different servants one servant served her on Sunday one on Monday one on Tuesday one1 so the Sunday lady thought Esther worked seven days a week cuz she worked on Sunday and the Monday lady thought she works 7 days a week and the chabas lady who didn't see her work on shabas figured she must never work that was the of the but here's the and I know this is on everybody's mind and everybody's very worked up about this and everybody's very worried about this that the name of this Sher was the true tale of Ash's tale and this is you know by the the the sheer tonight is depending on the audience you got to appreciate it okay so and I know everyone's worried and everybody's wondering about vash's T and that's the vash's T right so and you probably want to know am I going to get when am I going to get around to vashi say I'm getting there don't worry I'm getting I'm going to I'm getting there soon we're we're about to talk about it so vashi has the opportunity of a lifetime she's invited to parade herself in front of all of Persia media and the says refuses so asks what's going on she's a they both intended to sin so why didn't Vash take him up on the offer oh the best part of the PM story Tel Gabriel came and he made for her a tail this is it this is M's part he made a tail for vashi what kind of tail cow tail a horse tail I don't know but he she he made a z of so very good that's the gamarra everybody knows that but here is where it takes a little bit of a downturn here is where it was I'm going to tell you something and I can not tell you but it's somewhat demoralizing and very depressing and that is you know the wants to know didn't know what to do with Vash how's he going to handle Vash so who does ask his sh to and says they had this great dilemma what should we tell the guy you tell him to kill her tomorrow he's going to snap out of his anger and he's going to blame us to tell him not to kill her we he has to kill for the so like any good Rabbi that somebody asks a Shila to and doesn't know the answer what they say I don't know you need to ask somebody else right the worst thing in the world is to get involved in someone else's mess you know ketki says you know do and they're getting into a fight so what doesa do he sticks up for one of them he says what's the end of the story they both hate him by the end of it they both hate him that's because R writes whenever you get involved in two people's fight they're going to make up but the only one thing they're going to agree upon is they both hate you so they knew this they knew the rabaka they said don't ask us go ask somebody else go ask Amon and moav Amon and moav had been sitting on their land they were never exiled they're like a barrel of wine that sits on their sediment their mly time mly reason you know we we CL Isel we've been we're all over the place we have no we have no we can't give you a clear answer why don't you ask comes says what were the getting at why did they send says here's the deeper we know that we're not allow to marry into why because when we were traveling through their land they didn't have the courtesy to serve us food in fact was challenging the the Heritage the lineage of DAV he said David you come from so the Defenders of David said well only the males are possible but the females are Kasha because uh it's only the men who should have brought out the food and says why only the men why not the the the women and AAR says what do you mean why not the women because it's not SOS it's not mest for women to go out and serve food to the men so has a good Kasha let the men bring the food to the men and let the women bring the food to the women and adner didn't know the answer but then the answer was given no even for the Nim to go bring out drink and food to the is that's also not why tell us that when bam came up with a plan to cause first he tried to hire the and they said no so he had to go to the m in the that did not go out to be with they were that were not exiled what the were telling was go you see they were never exiled hint hent why were they never exiled they were never exiled because of and now you're going to ask to do this don't you realize she was right for not coming out what the were hinting was they were to him look at look what they achieved and look what they were to because of their don't you should it's okay that Vash didn't come out she was following the model of am but then R says something which is m is heartbreaking says do you know what it means that Gabriel came and made a of it's doesn't really mean that he made a tail on Esther you think it really means she grew a tail no says what it means is say that why is a woman supposed to be why so the says because was created from the whether schim one man says there were two heads back to back that they never saw each other the other Manar was he took her from the what the what is that called in sh the that created from the it's called Z and the gor says that because was created from the which is a that's why so listen to IET when kazal say that Gabriel made a tail on Esther it doesn't mean he made a taale it what oh good he was paying attention when he said you he made a tail it doesn't mean that he made a tail it means he engendered in her the mid of zov he engendered in her the mid of that's theid the says why is because hem created an is from the the the ofs zov so it doesn't really mean he made a tail what it means is that he engendered inash the because is a reference a z of is a reference toah so you know I have to tell you a very personal feeling this was devastating to me so then what you didn't have a tale you imagine you come home at the per suda and you tell your children you tell your an N you didn't have a tail I mean it's like you're na beus you didn't have a tail so I think it's a good thing we came together tonight a few nights before how could we explain how really Vash had a TA otherwise you're going it's might disturb shom I you know we don't know the repercussions of such an idea so what pack up shot but said she didn't really have a tail I want to tell you okay this not P this real I want to tell you by the way and it's quoted in the let me tell you a story once upon a time there was a yid who had a cow and the cow Worked six days a week and the cow he's owned by a y did not work on chabas and the yid fell on hard times he lost his money so he had to sell the cow to a guy and the guy bought the cow and it was Sunday and the cow worked and it was Monday and the cow worked and it was Tuesday and the cow worked and it was Friday and all of a sudden and the cow stopped so the guy figures you know it was a long week for Elsie and uh he let he let he had R shabas morning he said no let's get to work cow doesn't budge the cow doesn't move so he takes his club and he's bashes the cow over the head he's slamming the cow the cow doesn't budge the cow doesn't move so it goes back to the yid it's a I bought a cow that could work seven days a week I didn't buy a Jewish cow so uh he said I want my money back so the the yid comes he says I need to have a word with Elsie so he bends down and he whispers into the C look you know when you were used to work to for me you had off on but because of my sins I had to sell you to a now you're allowed to work so do me a favor this is not going to be good for the Mish if I have to take you back I need the money do me a favor and work the go started sing the go what kind of cows is like a Kish of cow cow you know I don't want the cow tell me what if you don't tell me what you said to the cow I'm not going to keep the cow so the Y said look I told the cow that uh it's a mitzvah for you to work now because I sold you and you got to follow you got to listen and this guy was so inspired this guy was so moved he said that has no listens to its Master me gave me a brain he ran away okay so that we could have a project inspire you know they should they should advertise look even you could do kov right anyone could do kov beautiful right says the gar but he didn't he didn't just convert he learned he became a this guy and not only did he become a he became a Tana on the son of the C and they still say in his name and if you wonder how could a person come Clos to from a cow you never heard of the paruma this is the so I'm thinking to myself and I'm scratching my head who's so I did a search I looked through all the F where is so I have my my friend over here is an anle of the right that's one of the places that I looked and he brings in a few of the that is quoted I found three that said again inspired by the cow number one listen to this look in number 24 you know we had a mish in shil it's something like 369 years why was destroyed because there were two a taking place number one number two and I'm thinking to myself sounds awfully like yeah but you know was one thing got to do with the other right we know he wants Vash to come out and he take out that's the greatest example of the second very interesting by the way on that says who he's the guy who was inspired by the cow tyus okay there's a second memor of you ever go to a sh the guy gets up and the guy says you know I'm not really prepared and think to yourself you're not prepared so why do I have to listen to you now you know or some sometimes the guy says um I was thinking of saying but so B enough I have to hear what you're going to say now I have to hear what you're thinking of saying also you know people say I'm not really a speaker so so why are you speaking exactly you know but people don't realize that if you're going to speak in front of theor you got to prepare you have to make sure you know what you're you're going to say otherwise it's B's M you're wasting everybody's time say okay that's you know maybe it's a nice thing no it's not a nice thing it's a there's a medish that says before you get up to speak before the you have to over what you're going to say four times really yeah there if you're going to Lane you're I laned 50 times already I saw whenever you L you need to prepare four times yeah but I have I have a you know computer memory I have I don't forget a thing whatever you do you got to prepare four times really is that it's learned after the med the med says look at this look at number 25 you need to prepare what you're going to say don't say I already gave this before so I don't need to prepare it no where do we learn it from you learn it from that did not teach one until he reviewed it and prepared it four times says the medish once upon a time there was a man by the name of and he was walking with RAB AKA and RAB AA said no tell me and he said sorry I did not prepare four times so I can't talk right now says the the med and the praised it he was correct you don't just talk you don't just say you need to prepare who do you learn it from the that's the second I found the third again who's he's the guy who inspired by the C the third is like this there's a says is a who many thought he was Masia including in fact when would pass by says the med when he would see would say you're big but one thing I have to tell you about this grass will grow in your mouth before this guy's Mas three memor in number one was destroyed because number two before you before you say four times number three we know one of the great was we had in the summer on the great old time of it's very interesting he had two different M of cabala he first of all was the primary disciple of the Rak Rao he actually purchased the from the AL of the r he paid the Al and if you look in the he paid Theo and he paid the AL to be able to have the rights to get a hold of the St of the Rak later though we know there are two main types of kab there's the r and then there in fact writes where philosophy ends cabala begins and where the cab of theak ends the cabal the Begins the cabal is considered a higher form of cab and in they told the r they learn in other words there's considered two stre strands of cabal that is considered a higher D but later who was one of the earliest of when he came to Italy so he taught the Rano the AR form of cabala so the Riano has something called you know we'll do something a little different tonight I want to tell you I want to share with you what Rao says about this episode of the cow and so the first revelation of Rao is do you know who this cow was who didn't want to work on chabas Bashi and I was so happy because now barashi has a tail now it's not the tail that you thought of is Right gel didn't really put a a tail on but when she came back later on of course she had a tail so don't worry the M was correct you could tell your children your grandchildren but it's a little bit of a different type of tale than you always thought okay so it's Kad to come tonight just to hear the true tale of Ash's Tale But comes Rao and he has another Revelation over here that who was this gentleman who was inspired by vashi he was none other this guy was the go and you know it's always a Pella you know at the end of the porm story so what happened to if I could show I'm going to digress for a moment it's K just bear with me it's Mish this is a this from a different sh but I'm going to say right now just very quickly you know at the end of the Milla the third to last of the M what's the third to last of that ta the people who cares this is the end of the Milla how does the Milla End by the way tax the people you know it's bad enough have to worry about my own taxes I have to hear about's taxes you know especially what's the next PK after this the next p after this is that if you want to know about the Grandeur and the majesty and the political connections of Mori and you want to know about all of the palace and shrig you got the wrong book you're not going to find anything in Millis eser for that you need to open up the chronicles of Persia and media so what's Milla getting at what's Milla getting at the Milla wants you to open up the chronicles of Persia media what's it saying saying if you want to find out about m Open up The Chronicles of Persia media so it says absk this is the Mig what the Milla is saying is that there is nothing in this book that is for historical context there's nothing in this book that just gives you a better perspective of the times what the mcgilla is saying is that every single detail of McGill Esther is written to help you appreciate and enhance your understanding of the miracle so how do you make sense of the PK right before that that tax the people who cares that he taxs the people this is the Kasha the brisar so I want to tell you if you look and say for Ezra I believe it's p it says over there that the Jewish people returned to and they start to rebuild the second bash the problem is they have no money so there's a man by the name of dares dares opens up the Royal Treasury and he says to his advisers if the Jews don't have enough money to pay for the construction of the B mikdash you fund the B mikash from my Royal Treasury and where do does this money come from taxes who's he's the son of where did he get the money from how could you not help but think he got the money from all the taxes that a charged the people so it's think about the beginning of the M opens that is celebrating that the second wasn't going to built be built and the 70 years had passed Eternal Doom for cl Israel and by the end of the Milla a has become the chief fundraiser of the second M talk about irony the thir the Milla begins is celebrating Eternal by the end of the mill he's taxing the people he you know so if you would go to the second there might be a big plaque on it this building is brought to you by the generous donation of the collection of a so you want to know what happened to well first of all he became the chief fundraiser for the second but according too he eventually was Nel and he became the and then the ra adds and he had a TI as the T of that there are only three mem of and if we say that he became this then it's the three things that said number one we know what was one of the big infractions of the sud what did he do wrong at the sud so comes back to this world and he needs to be the of so the first memor he says is had another problem you know what his other problem was he could never make up his mind he was a he can never get the story straight sometimes this way Dre it this way Dre it that way he never had things straight so the second m is that when you give she you better be clear you better prepare your teaching four times I don't want to hear other y this way that way no four times clores day but there was one other and that is he's celebrating a suda that what that the N said 70 years are up when 70 years are up the Gul is going to happen and a miscalculated and he wrongfully said the Gula is not coming so how's he going to be massing that so the way he's massing that is when RAB AKA thinks the G did come now now rasa says no R AKA this is wrong grass will grow this guy is the there are three mem each one is to some of the infractions of it's amazing irony you know by the end of the story is first the chief uh collector and fundraiser for the second M mikdash he's teaching Tyra you know he's a t the grandchildren of H are learning in and Vash is on a dairy farm somewhere you know so Hashem has a way of you know working everything out that everybody gets what they deserve RAB let's come back to the where we started so we wanted to know rabai what's the connection between havah in the PM story that the whole the whole ritual of havdalah revolves around comes rner not in the the and rner says so beautifully let's try to understand why Wen CL why not who wouldn't want a y says of there's only one with y yam is so beautiful the only problem is you have to make Hava after yam you have to from by the way the right just aside the reason we don't make says is you know where do we make we don't have D you can't makea but say if we would have been as a y what we would have to make and a is so connected so misic so attached to he can't bring himself to be from so therefore we were never this way we were never have to beash at the end of when marries RKA and he takes her into the tent and the says and Rashi says in what way was it recognizable that this was the tent of SAR says Rashi the N was M shabis the shabas and the bread stayed fresh the whole week why did sar's candle light the whole week it did her something like she she got a kick out of it that her candle burned the whole week what's the onion that s's candle lit the whole week what's the onion that the bread stayed fresh the whole week says I think his yite is so they we're coming up right when is your what's now tonight test so two days yeah also also says was so connected to shab that whatever mitv whatever she was involved in on chabus continued with her the whole week the her shabas burnt the whole week and her of shabas stayed warm the whole week she lived chabas the entire week in fact there's a and in the there's there's a from and he writes over there you know there's a that women do not shrink from theala a now people take it a little too far cuz let let's say if the husband made abdah already and the wife needs to make abdah she makes abdah she has to make abdah just a that if the husband is making abdah the woman don't shrink not the not the wife not the daughters what's the inion what's the reason for the so says that they're so connected to shabas they don't want to bring themselves to drink fromd as if they can't be m they can't separate from the shabas there's a concept that is very difficult to Beil from something you're connected to says we never were as because we cannot bring ourselves to so is it possible to say they recognize that comes and we lose the and it's a downer it's depressing we have to take leave of shabas and we have to be M from shabas o we have to go into the the work week therefore that the ritual of revolves around revolves around why because even though we have from shab there's one thing a never has to be M from we never have to be M from as they say is something that the is so that we couldn't even be as is even though we're taking leave of shab but we always carry p with us throughout the year and especially this year at the close of chabas we enter the Y of so we're almost you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com