Purim: The Ultimate Irony - Coming Close to Hashem Through Sin

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know actually where is it Isaac hold it up everybody look that's the last available copy of the Hebrew saer in America and in AR last copy so you can't even get it some it's already spoken for but hopefully we're going to reprint it for next year we're working on reprinting the safer on PES Nissan should be ready for this next couple of weeks if you don't yet have the concealed and the revealed big and small you could still be m in the great midst of getting it before pum okay we have very important share tonight we know that on the aside from the four you have the mitah you have the Mitzvah of of of M there's also the talks about there's a Mitzvah to drink and not just to drink a little bit to embibe and become inebriated and even intoxicated which is one of the most difficult Mitzvah to understand after all in Judaism the thing that we value more than anything else is Das by the way I'll tell you a unbelievable thing the forces of evil are are 480 right L 480 do you remember that number l l the mishan counteracts that who picks up puts up the mishan m m has hadash hadash is 479 so how is he going get to 180 480 that's the AL the small Al ofra that's the continuation from the end of P to the beginning of a that at the end of only has 479 so he still has to get the the Z to counter act 480 that's why the mishun is 48 crush each one is 10 fine the what do we value more than anything else Das the most important thing in Judaism is to be able to maintain one's ability to think and to choose and most of the ills of uh mankind of the world in general came through uh excessive intoxication starting with the very first day of creation God tells Adam you want to drink apple juice iced tea lemonade Snapple peach Snapple mango Snapple half and half Snapple cranberry whatever you name it you want to drink Turkey Hill with peach flavoring whatever you want to drink I recommend Turkey Hill diet with mango but you could drink any drink you want just don't drink the wine right R is's wine and immediately um ad marish drank the wine and he had the first kides Club so anytime you see people going down for kdes club they're just emulating Adam Adam who brought death to the world that's all they're doing all the ills of society came from the first kiddish Club so that's that's the basic if you wanted to know how you should view it in in a nutshell anyway and then Noah comes out of the Tava and Noah becomes intoxicated and most of saer mish talks about the ill effects of drinking wine and here it is it's p it's one of the holiest days of the year and basically say drink till you drop what's the meaning of this Mitzvah why is y in such a prominent part of PM so the ELA writes and it's codified by the Bea that most of the Miracles of the PM story came through wine vashi was executed at a Mishay and then hamon had his downfall at a party of wine Esther's Mish therefore in order to properly commemorate the miracle of pmal ordained that we should drink wine on pm and this way we'll Remember The Narrative of the PM story yeah but still this is very difficult is it really worth it I mean it's a dangerous thing you're you know if somebody drinks too too much alcohol more than their liver could could handle they could kill themselves and one p him why not just say make Kish yeah I mean just drink a cup what's what's this issue of uh commemorate now but here's the real question here's the real question in the times of perm there was a decree on the Jewish people what was our fate going to be this was the single most disastrous gazer that ever loomed on the heads of the Jewish people never in our history did God and not only did hasm allow it to happen God signed it he signed it albeit with tit not with Dam but God signed it did it ever happen in our history that the ream signed the decree to annihilate the Jewish people in other words Hashem created the world for who baras for us he gave us the Tyra and then he told H you know what I'm done with them I'm finished with them I don't need them anymore dispose of them annihilate them it never happened in in our whole history so we must have done something really bad what did we do we went to the party and we got we drank at the party why in the world commemorate the biggest sin in our history can you imagine oh you know what you do on Pim we call our friends we call our neighbors we gather together and we commemorate the biggest sin in the history of the Jewish people I mean do we have a day on our calendar that we all come to a big fire we throw gold into the fire and we make a golden calf to commemorate the do we ever come together and slander is to commemorate theam I mean that would be a National Suicide are you saying that coming to the Mish was was worse yeah it was much worse because these other decrees did not elicit a decree from shmay to destroy us the single worst AA the Jewish people ever did was go to this party it was a celebration that the B mikdash was not being rebuilt imagine if Jewish people would celebrate the fact that oh we're in galus the Temple's destroyed that would be that would be uh disastrous the greatest disaster the the worst sin that we ever committed was going to the party and here it is what do we do on PM we invite our friends we invite our neighbors to re-experience and reenact the worst sin in the history of Jewish people what's why do we do that why would we do that is there any logic to that furthermore commemorating we're commemorating of of choose die how do we commemorate Mak huh how do we commemorate Mak we have blackouts we don't say no okay we remember we remember the miracle but to have a mitzva to have a Mitzvah to re-experience in a that's rather unusual by the way schomo kuger asks furthermore now this RAR has a saer on the uh Milla I can't haven't been able to find the saer for over 10 years it's called M Esther I think I found it on Hebrew Books they may have reprinted different among many of the things that he wrote but just a straight up safer M Esther I have not been able to find M asked a very simple question we have a rule in Judaism that your the prosecutor will never be the defense attorney so in other words on the is not going to go into the wearing golden clothing because the it's remind of the AAL now let's think for a moment oh you lost the sound could you hear me now one second R Schwarz wants to know which safer gal I have to tell you even though this is M this year that in the upcoming purm rub skit he does a routine and you made it into the purm uh purum skit okay so just uh just be aware of that okay in any event in any event um okay so uh asked another question the name of the sa is my normally there's a rule yeah the proc prosecutor will never be the defense attorney what caused Ham's downfall who remembers what caused Hon's downfall the party of Esther so that means hmon had a downfall through a party why would Hashem allow a party to bring about the downfall of Esther when the party was the sin of the Jewish people we sin at the party that's why hashm allowed H to make a decree to Anni us so Hashem is going to use a party to bring about the downfall of H how do how does that fit into the general rule of how could hasem use a party to bring about H's downfall the party was the sin how could it bring the Salvation okay this week's the of Zar this week it's Parra we read about the mission of sha and the failed mission of Sha Sha was charged to wipe back and Sh comes and he hears sheep and he sees their survivors came to sh What in the world's going on here I'm a prophet I told him to kill adik and Sh comes he sees the king is there he sees all the sheep and sh confidently says one of the most bizarre comments in the whole tanak hasem I upheld the word of Hashem I upheld the word of Hashem so the question is what he did everything but uphold the word of Hashem not only he not excusing himself for not fulfilling the word of the Prophet he's saying I fulfilled the word of hasem actually no you didn't you blew it what did mean and then says so what's the sound of the sheep in my ear the people had mercy on the best sheep and the cattle to slaughter to God and the rest of it we got rid of and then sh says says the Epic comment God doesn't want your sacrifices he doesn't want your Mitzvah he doesn't want your good deeds God's not interested in your agenda all theam wants is just listen you ever have that with your kid you know why why are you up well because I was just doing this or just doing that or I told you to go to sleep yeah but I was doing it to help you pal just listen right and you never had that right just listen you ever had that with people why' you do this no because it was for you I don't want you to do things for me I want you to listen to me that's what God says you know I I learned I learned so much I learned during I don't want you to learn I just want you to listen to me just listen to the don't do me favors listen that's a general principle what's that's why it's connected to is you know we want to bring godas don't do him favors just simply listen to him anyway when God gave us the tar har SII what was our reaction no thank you not interested we don't want it yeah the written law we'll take the written law oral law no thanks no thanks so God said please we said no way God said you really should do it we said not a chance I'm not interested so God took the mount he said either take it I'm going to kill you so he said oh okay yeah we want it and when did we accept it willingly not before when in Mara they got yeah they got some they got a few little flavor the reason we when y comes in shabas we say right over there we got it yeah but we just got it was Bava because we got a few sprinklings but once we got the whole thing no thank you how long did it take in the midar after 40 years no 444 year 440 years in Israel no 410 bon no thank you 70 years later we took it what happened 70 years later that we accepted Thea we went to a high level then actually went to a very low level we committed the biggest sin in our history that we ate at the so how all of a sudden do we accept the another interesting thing take a look at number seven for all you um word officios the word y often in the Milla is spelled with two Ys it's written we read it what's that extra y doing there okay next question you ready I want to know I'm going to put you on the spot now who's Kish who's the guy who's Kish who's Kish raise your hand if your name is Kish do you ever do you know anyone named Kish I know the thing you put in the Chillin sounds like it who's who's Kish who's Kish I'm G to tell you who he is very good look in tagum sheni tagum sheni number 13 tum says his name was Mor Ben Ben shimi Ben bikes barish Kish was the the father of Benish 20 Generations earlier is so the obvious question is if Kish is a father of why is sha not in the lineat where did sha go so therefore the IB Ezra Ezra says this Kish is a different guy cuz if he was the father of Sha why wouldn't it mention Sha Sha is the most prominent is more prominent than Kish you never heard of Kish sha you heard of you know people named sha you don't know anyone named Kish you never went to a bris Kish Ben you know Ben I don't know what so why is in on the on the list izra says it must be a different Kish the problem and therefore says there is no basis that Mor comes from Sha the only source that Mor comes from Sha is cu is the father of Sha but obviously this Kish is not the father of sha so it could be Mor comes from Zulan okay comes from bam you mean he has many perim Izar rejects the proof that Kish that M comes from Sha the problem though is the gamar says M comes from Sha so the izra as is his D argues on the G the izra will often say uh com commentary well if give commentary that contradicts the words of kazal and that's not a problem because izra is telling us what is called the simple reading of the P there is a way to understand it without going with the traditions of that's the of the yeah but the and the say um the following principle they say we have to go with the rabbis we have to go with the says that everybody knew M came from Sha they actually had tinas on morai that why didn't sha kill AAG and that's why we have H in the first place so the question is where is sha wise and sha mentioned there is a man conspicuously absent from aillis Esther his name is sh but as we're going to see he's referred to very clearly in a different P look at number six in the most I don't know I think this is the the most famous in the says Esther if you're going to be quiet at this time salvation will stand for the Jews from elsewhere and you and your father's house will be destroyed you and your father's house what do you mean Esther's Father's House Esther's father's dead Esther never saw her father when her father when her mother conceived Esther the father died what do you mean her father will be destroyed we never saw her father in the story he's not even in the narrative he died before Esther was born say the episode of P was the heavens ranam was giving Esther a chance to rectify the sin of Sha Sha blew it sha was told by the navi kill AAG and sh K and sha came out with justifications and rationalizations why we need to keep AAG alive why to keep the Sheep alive so Hashem gave the family of sha an opportunity to rectify their sin by Esther risking her life to go to a to be able to somehow overcome H therefore morai says if you're going to remain silent at this time not only will you go down in the history books not only will history write you off but sha will be eternally doomed in the afterlife you will be destroyed and so will your father sh the reason why sha is not mention says author of because it's as if we're going back to Sha's father and we're saying take two let's start this again Let's Make Believe Shaw was never born we're giving this one more chance that's why sha is conspicuously absent Ben benimi Benish what happened to sha now he blew it we're giving this family one more chance that is what the says and by the way this amazingly says um that because sha sinned and he left a m he not mentioned he says I found in shitz that since this was the opportunity for Sha's sin to be atoned for so it's like we're going back to Kish by the way es Raba teaches us that the whole purpose of Mester reab Ley when he would teach Miller he would begin with the PK that says that when you leave nations of the world in the in AR Israel and you think you're doing it for world world peace and you're doing it to keep the world opinion on your side you should know it will always come back to haunt you that's the message of Milla sester when you allow the nations of the world to hang around in the land of Israel it will come back to haunt you how do we see that because sha didn't kill AAG he had a kid aik he had a kid hamon who almost was successful in eradicating the Jewish people and boy is that a very uh timely lesson what is the lesson of G Esther be careful for letting the nations of the world hang around the land of Israel okay where do we see this so the whole reason why the story of perm happened and we were threatened was because sha allowed um AAG to hang around one night and now what did AAG do that night he impregnated a how Kish so you can imagine if he's using Kish you could imagine what kind of progeny came out now the ARA says that Sha's mistake is alluded to you ready look at number 17 he lifts his he [Applause] says amik is the earliest of Nations and his end will be [Applause] destruction say you know what this means bam is foreseeing the end of and he said maybe you'll survive but you won't live you might get by but you're not going to get by you got that you're not gonna live ain't making a or o is going on the Jewish people woe to you Jews because you know who lived afteru killed [Applause] a foreing do you you think you're G to live M from the guy who survived cuz you know came from a h now you know what tonight is do you know whose yard side is tonight now usually when I ask that question there's always someone in the audience who says doesn't matter what day of the year it iser but tonight he's right tonight he's right by if you want to come to S this year is the only connection between Sak and RAV is the rhyme if let's say you had a gramman and you're like one the line ended with you're stuck you need a rug to Bell you out of that one right anyway the rug over us tonight wow but you know who else is y us tonight so you say it was that's true as we do do both a little bit tonight's a I didn't even realize when I Was preparing but of course we have an epic tonight so says the in the that now approaches AAG and AAG knows his his hours are numbered number 21 and AAG says deed it has been Departed the bitterness of death what does that mean it has Departed the bitterness of death says the that AAG was very worried that he would be killed by a mere simpleton and when he sees that Sho is coming to kill him he says the bitterness of death has been removed because now that I'm being killed by a navi so death is bad but the bitterness has been removed or besides the bitterness of death to die without children that's very painful so therefore but but AAG had an intuition that he impregnated the sh so he's he's saying without giving giving uh without saying clearly the bitterness of death has been removed because I know I have progyny but says the M unbelievable what's the G of mar what's the gach of mar 240 who's 240 amalik the bitterness of death has departed because I made sure to preserve amalik in the world because just last night I was able to produce and impregnate the so says the bitterness of death has been removed therefore says the says to Esther if you don't take advantage of this moment then you know what's going to happen not only will you be destroyed your father's house will be destroyed eternally says when sha sinned by leaving AAG alive the no criticizes him with 10 accusations if you look in number one you despised you didn't do you didn't listen you died in treachery that you so therefore says when the Jews killed Alik in times of P they rectified all 10 infractions of sha therefore the word yehudim is always spelled with an extra Y what else do they do three times in the Milla it says they didn't take the spoils why didn't they take the spoils why don't they take the spoils the answer is one of the biggest accusations against look in 25 he went after the spoils he wasn't allowed to take the spoils so to rectify the sin of schol the Jewish people went out of their way not to take the spoils that's the man by the way the words why didn't they take the spoils s they didn't take the spoils because they rectified the sin of sh okay fasten your seat belts lap yeah what happened I dropped something the spoils don't take the spoils okay hamon made the tree and he then he's looking for M and he sees that M and all the children are congregated in the B they're wearing sackcloth they're being o they were they cried out and there were 22,000 children ham tied them up in Iron he appointed guards he said tomorrow I will kill all of you and the mothers came and they brought them food and water because they said we like a good Jewish mother we don't die hungry it's not it's not becoming to die to die hungry you need to be wellfed before you die so the mothers came to feed them and they put their hands on their far and they swore that they won't eat they're going to die in ESS they began to cry out the of the med is at that moment the mercy of God was over was prevailed God stood up from the Throne of judgment he sat on the throne of Mercy what's this voice voice that I hear it sounds like sheep the says what God doesn't know that they're children sounds like sheep how does it sound like sheep why they sound like sheep says the gamar says the medis at that moment Hashem took the letters that were signed with cement and he tore it up the asks what does it mean that it sounds like sheep what did Hashem mean it sounds like sheep say something M out of this world say what was the sin that brought about the the fact that sha didn't kill a and when he didn't kill AAG what happened he didn't kill the sheep and what did say what's the sound of the sheep and now the SCH says M three words you can miss it I don't want anyone to miss it and when they were crying they were doing chuva and when you do tsha out of fear then the sins are downgraded but one of the phenomena we like to talk about is that when you do Chu of love the sin is transformed into so now retroactively they're crying out not only reminded god of the sin that they let the Sheep survive but the fact that they let the Sheep survive ured to them as a Mitzvah was a Mitzvah that they let the Sheep survive and now we come to one of the most astounding Kim you'll ever hear you ready for this you sure let's take a vote if you're ready for this let's think for a moment theel says the greatest light that ever came down to this world was a miracle of per it's greater than chabas it's greater than yam it's greater than yum Kipper it's greater any it's the greatest spiritual energy that ever came down to at what what were the Jews doing at the time that God began to bring down this great spiritual light right when Hashem is orchestrating events to bring about our Salvation what were the Jewish people doing at that moment they were committing the worst sin in the history of the world they're an enter from the because at that party God was giving idea to invite vashi knowing she's not going to listen knowing that that Vash is going to be killed so while God is bringing the greatest shef of kadha to the world what are we doing we're blowing it we're committing the biggest sin in the history of kiso why would Hashem do that comes the mill m is the of the one of the most important Classic on theas number 34 he says isn't it odd that the that we have a mitzvah on pm to have a suda what are we doing we're commemorating the biggest a in history think about it you get around your table you're all drinking wine hey guys what are you doing oh we're just commemorating the biggest sin in the history of the Jewish people no no no it was the biggest sin in the history of the Jewish people but what the Jewish people do to to deserve salvation we did chuva and once we did chuva how does sh look at the being is it erased no it's more than erased it's viewed as a Mitzvah now what kind of Mitzvah is it is it viewed as a little Mitzvah a mediumsized Mitzvah a pretty big Mitzvah it's viewed as the biggest Mitzvah in the history of the Jewish people because the bigger the sin the more the Chua you need then the chuva transforms the a into a Mitzvah now we've quoted in the past from the that let's say somebody ate a McDonald or Wendy's or Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken any of the above mentioned establishments and then they do Chua it's considered like they ate the carbon P now don't try that at home you can't go to Wendy's and say well you know I never ate a p so I'm going to go to Wendy's and I'm going to do CH because but if somebody was that's why the you know what the says you know because what could aad do already has very few mitz he could do he could wear he could wear he could learn Tyra he could do but the Russia he could there's so many AO that he could do that get transformed into mitz that if he ever does he's a million light years ahead of the so it comes out that after CL did cha being the was the greatest mitvah in the history of Cl so how could we not commemorate this great that which interesting no the of PM is to show that when a Jew does chuva not only is it wiped away not only does it turned into a z it's such a valuable zus we could have a Mitzvah to commemorate the sin to begin with okay that's the nas comes shuger Ander says the question was how could Hashem orchestrate that through the the meal of Esther the CL Israel will have Yeshua but inar wasn't the meal of sin so how could Hashem bring about salvation through a meal yeah true the meal was a sin but then es said the sin was turned into a mitvah so there's no more wasn't AAR it was never a Kar retroactively it wasn't a prosecutor it was a defense I don't know I don't know what kind of Chua that was was that Chua Maya maybe that wasn't Chua Maya because it was yum Kipper yum Kipper is not Chu May okay now now we're gonna take this it's a pretty wild that means can you imagine what are we doing on we're commemorating sin were only the Jews in in shushan that's what the gamar says truth is he made the party of 180 days for the Jews everywhere for all the medis it was only the seven days is at the end that was for shushan so the G's question well then only the Jews of shushan should be destroyed it's not P why why should only the Jews of shush be destroyed but everyone else was partying for 180 days okay it's good question but the gamar is not so simple now this is whatever we said Till now we're going to take it even okay you ready for this you ready so basically what we're saying is that even though think about it when okay what do do we do on purm WE commemorate sin why would we do that because the sin is transformed into a great Mitzvah so we're commemorating a great Mitzvah and how could hasem bring about salvation through a party but says the party is not a ask this the greatest light in the history of the world the greatest salvation in the history of world was what PM when did God choose to bring that great light and salvation to the world what were we doing we were sinning egregiously why would God choose that moment since he knew that ultimately we would do chuva it was already considered before we did the chuva that God loved it so much that he already paved the way to bring about the Gula at that moment even though we were sinning and we didn't even think about doing Chua yet because since we would eventually do Chua so then retroactively from the beginning God considered it a Mitzvah to begin with I'm not I'm not saying it I I don't think I could ever say that sasus writes that I want to read to you his words by the way don't don't accept anything I'm saying you need to see you need to see it for yourself I want to to read to you the words of sasus the sasus is on page five it's the top right hand side ra God that we would do cha can you imagine that God knew with foresight we we would do Chua so even though right now you think about it that means Hashem works on two levels we're sinning egregiously so he's allowing H to make a decree at that very moment because at the end of the day right now we're sinning but the for knowledge of God is making it that since he knows we're going to do Chua at the same time we're falling out of favor with him we're also finding favor with him like is what do you say that the Kap that already has Hashem brings theu before the Mak but this is like uh a very uh complex thing to wrap your mind around that at the same time that God is allowing God is allowing ham to make this decree because we're sinning so egregiously at the very same moment because he knows we're going to do Chua this m itself is finding favor and Goda so God gave us the T no thank you no thanks why we're not on such a high level you know why because we don't really have such a big Z in our Arsenal to compel us to Such Great Heights what what do we have that we followed God into the midbar okay that we accepted the T very nice but we don't have the requisit to propel us to Great Heights not until a thousand years later when we fell Rock Bottom when we did Chua for that AA that sin which was so horrendous was transformed into literally the greatest zus in the history of the Jewish people and it catapulted us to the highest level we were ever on the says the 50th level even and we Mak so if somebody asks what Mitzvah do that allowed us to be the answer is the great Mitzvah of being n from the the Great of the worst sin in the history of the Jewish people what was the either was full-fledged gilas or pretty much because it was celebrating the the fact that the mdash lay in Ruins okay now also theyd so with all of they were defiling the the the Kim So comes to sh you ready for the origer here's a here's the here's the key shm comes to sha and shm's what I told you to Kik what's going on over here I hear all the sheep and I see AAG what's going on so so what are you talking about you know what you know what I've accomplished for the Jewish people because I didn't kill AAG the whole story of P happened and because of the story of PM they accepted the so if there's anyone who upheld the word of Hashem it's me me I upheld the world of Hashem because of my my whether you like it or not whether you like what I did or not but because I left AAG alive there's going to be a and cl are going to do chuva for being n and that's going to catapult them to the highest level so thank you very much the highest level in the history of Jewish people it's thanks to me you think I didn't listen to the word of Hashem now is this really what sha had in mind the origer said that's the meaning of these prophetic words because of my infraction I upheld the word of Hashem and this all came bad as a result of what sha did and ultimately Esther risks her life she goes into and she is the of to bring about Yeshua and she brings TI not only to herself but lease ofha and in that Merit um CLA we and therefore the words of are understood to mean I upheld the word of hasem I wish everybody everyone's invited to join us in our house on Pam day anytime especially between 1 and 3 at 6:38 Oakland Avenue Kingdom taken away because the navi said you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com