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

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone I have a easy Tinus and uh you know this Tinus is different than other this Tinus we're fasting because uh we don't actually know that clao fasted uh this day in history they act we have no evidence that they did there's no record that CL fasted on but we have a that whenever we fight a war we fast so since today we fought a war and we destroyed our enemies so we assume they fasted so to commemorate the assumed fast we fast today about today's um tinest which is inextricably bound with uh pm and the sud pm and the Mish of PM and um for your convenience for sh I know everybody wants to give out the new in the I brought them here today so limited copies you can't buy more than 25 a person so sorry I know if we could what how much 20 each and if anybody doesn't have the say p also it's available okay um Thea discuss a very interesting question we know that we have this uh very uh unique Mitzvah aside from the which namely we have you need to drink not a little bit you need to drink a lot say you need to basically drink until you've abdicated whatever se you still have left so the question that the asks and is this is quoted in the is the the number one sin in tanak is the sin of drinking too much today's learning so why would want us to drink which if you look through the almost every time there's a major sin it was caused by drinking you you know you start off the you don't even get to peric B andish ate from the what's and then n comes out of the T and he drank too much and then light goes into the mountain and then the next thing he's Sher kite you know it's amazing how he was able to do that and this is SCH speaks so many times about the pitfalls and the downfalls and the disaster of drinking and Kaz say what should you do on Pim drink until you drop basically so asks why would want us to commemorate something which is such a great says all the Miracles that occurred were at a party Vash was disposed of at a party and Esther came about through a party and hamon had his full through a party therefore we drink to commemorate how the miracle came about but nevertheless that seems rather difficult that we should commemorate and participate in something which is so uh dangerous and this is what brought down in the be as well that's question number one what exactly why is it so critical to remember the Y when the yin is such a dangerous thing there's a safer on the Miga Byer an amazing safer the name of the safer is the m remember when I was originally preparing the share the sa was Kat impossible to get a hold of um the the has a very important question here we know that Esther when she was trying to plot and figure out what to do to save the Jewish people she threw a party and the g discusses what her was and what her plan was and how she was going to get hon to have a downfall at the party but her idea was she's going to have a a party says we have a principle that the does not allow our prosecutor to be our defender in Kar what saved the Jewish people in times of PM est's party how in the world could Esther's party have saved us in times of PM but we had just s that a party right if I were to ask what was the single greatest a that the Jewish people ever did what what would you answer that would not be the correct answer that was a pretty bad sin that wasn't good right let's set the record straight the AEL was not good but it was not as bad as the how do I know because by theel said many said you could live and everyone else will be obliterated by the a by the everyone was on everybody so that was we never had such a looming thread of annihilation of every last Jew and kazal say what did we do to Warrant that Gaz we were n from the that means that was the worst thing we ever did so how in the world will Esther save the Jewish people by making a suda why won't that drama up the memory of the sud the Jewish people participated in and now we have this principle number three at the end excuse me fine now so there's a man by the name of Shu and look you got to destroy AAG you got to wipe him out the men the women the children the animals ignore paa just wipe everybody out so sure enough what does sha do he doesn't wipe everyone out he leaves AAG over an extra night and we know say the sh slept in and that night um conceived fine so comes to sh what does say now let's think about it sha just committed a terrible blunder he just blew his mission he blew his job he's going to lose the Mal because of that he's basically was he's about to be fired by the noem he could have been the M he could have been the greatest leader in K Israel he's about to be fired now if you commit such a terrible atrocity and the boss is coming to you how does sha have the G to say the following words to Shmo guess what I just did he could say I'm sorry I didn't mean it I I was under the influence I had a moment of in no I upheld the word of God what you just m the word of hem you just disgrace the word of has no choice what you're talking about that's the sound of the sheep and has to tell well you know it's like when you tell your kids you know they say I was just trying to help I was just doing this I was just doing that you say I don't need your help I just want you to listen just listen don't be do me any favors don't do any me any free will offerings I told you to go to sleep and now's not the time all of a sudden to do PES cleaning at after 11:00 at night you know how it is so um sh tell I I just wanted you to listen how does sha have the goal to say he knows he did something wrong doesn't he then we know that in the times of say gave us he had to force us into it was and thear goes on goes so far as to say that if does not observe the Ty we have an opt out clause if God says Hey R why didn't you observe the T we could say what do you mean why I didn't want it in the first place you have no right to impose it on me says nevertheless we by the way the word two things first of all it's a it's not it's okay so if the says you don't have to stop him cuz now you know what you're talking about but go over to ma said by the way this is Hebrew this is not English and we pronounce the words mil you emphasis on the second half of the syllable not on the first okay watch out for the key move no it's not right if you want to hear a good one you have to make sure you go to F next thing you need to know about those words are they both it's not it's fine that was just a side point no extra charge okay um derive from they ratified what they already accepted so let's think for a moment that means here we are we're going through the the desert and God's showering down M God showering down water from the be we have we see God with our eyes but hasem we don't want the Tyra no thank you you know do don't do us any favors we're not interested in the Tyra fine we go through the yard the yard splits we still say to you know that t that we didn't want we still don't want it we go to is and we conquer 31 Kings with basically no casualties Hashem says you want the Ty out no thanks no thanks thanks we'll let you know you don't tell call me it we'll call you the entire basine there's a fire coming down from heaven says no no we said we'll let you know okay there's T there's the there's the there's you have prophets says great Hashem we like your fire we like your we don't want your then we go to Babylon and then we go to Persia and after eating for at the and our lives are on the line andm saves us and now we have no no no no no no open Miracles we said you know what Hashem that toy that you tried to give us a while ago okay we'll take it now what exactly happened we descended and therefore we ascended all the thousand years that we were having open Miracles that didn't do the job porm did the job says Mor to Esther if you're going to be silent at this time respit and salvation will occur to the Jewish people from elsewhere we don't need you Esther we don't need you you want to help us help us we'll be helped but if you don't help us you and your father's house will be be destroyed forever who what does Esther's father's house got to do with this why if Esther doesn't help Mori and the Jews will Esther's father's house be destroyed guess what Esther doesn't have a father what's the Milla talking about her father's house not only doesn't she have a father she never saw her father we don't even know who he is so what's m saying we don't know a thing about Esther's father all of a sudden if Esther doesn't want to help her family is going to go down the drain she don't have no family then we have another interesting phenomenon in m and that is the word Y is strangely spelled with two we read it but it's it's spelled why why do we keep on spelling the word yud with two you never heard this sh yet this is a good one okay we come to he was his name was Mori the son of Y the son of shimi shim which shimmy is this we know we know good old shimmy the one who tried to curse David isn't shimi Ben G no he's Kish Kish who's the son of Kish sha Ben Kish isn't he anybody here have any kishes in their family any name Kish kishka no not yet Kish Kish two things over here shimy is should be Bena shouldn't he and Kish shimmy shouldn't be Ben Kish it should be sh so comes the izra and the izra says it must be someone else it must be someone else Benish Kish was the Elder Statesman of his family and he wasn't the father of sha because if he was the father of sha then for sure he sha would be mentioned here because why would you mention Kish and not the more prestigious son who's a m sha therefore says Ezra there's a guy by the name of Mori Rabbi to you and Kish who his ancestor was was not the Kish who the father of sha was and therefore in all probability says I Ezra Mor did not come from Sha cuz if he did Sha's name would be mentioned really M didn't come from Sha doesn't the Gara say explicitly Mori came from Sha yes so what izra argues izra argues on the gamar he does so many many many times that's his practice that's the ofra that just because kazal say something I'll you're not bound by what say that's the ofra in not that he's not arguing on it's just that are saying based on the M from but there is a level of understanding called that you are not bound by the MS of what tells that's the but do tell us look at number 10 look what this did to me look what this y repaid me what did this yudi do to me that David did not kill shimi because who came from shimi who that didn't kill a that who came from him ham so we say Mor you know who you come from Mor you come from shimi and thank you David for not killing shimi because if not for you David if you would have killed shimi there wouldn't have been a Mor so number one say that Mor came from shimi number two we say look what did he didn't kill AAG now we have to deal with h in the times of Mor so the gar is saying clearly that Mor was a descendant of sh so then why is sh not mentioned in the p the words of the sages are alive and indor and there's no question M came from shim and there's no question that M came from sh Kish but says the truth is we skip Generations from Shi shim Ben maybe sha Ben Kish look at the look at number is and who was he M Ben benimi Ben so we skip like seven eight Generations what you don't have it go from 11 to 22 you only have two sheets yeah all right so uh you have to buy the safeer what can I tell you um I don't know sorry so the tarum says it jumps from Beni it skips B mik it skip six Generations bares why so it says correct we know the established that the Revenge of Cl against should be through the hands of sha and sha blew it sha was not M his mission so now what kazal saying what the p is saying is Mori and Esther step into the place of sha and are given another chance to rectify sha sin so now it's as if those SE Seven Generations have disappeared and morai again is taking the place of Sha Sha the reason why sha does not appear is because it's like he's disappeared off the face of the map and this is their last chance to get the family record straight look in this he says look in that in fact was M why isn't he and for that reason that Ezra has deviated from the words of says and that's exactly what RAB says now therefore comes the Al and the AL explains that the whole purpose why morai came to the world with Esther is to rectify the sin of sha because had sh done his job and killed me look at the number 16 amalik would have been destroyed but amalik had one extra night and he lived with the sh so this is all the fault of look at number 14 the medish the medish says this explicitly on the this talks about that when said go kill he said I will kill the guilty and he had mercy on AAG and from there came The Thorn that ultimately led up to ham by the way the Aral says look at number so says the this is drawn after what we mentioned when bam saw the destruction of am he turns to the K that you know what you didn't destroy why M look who's living after sh told to knock off like you see the could be read look that says look who's G to live after sh slices open AAG ultimately who killed AAG killed because sh didn't do the job so took his sword he sliced him in half like a piece of Sal L and but he was a day too late had sha came a day earlier then there would not have been an AAG comes the ramano the ramam Pano writes the word sh is gatria a that why do we have a because sha did not fulfill what he was supposed to In fact when sh meets up with AAG and God knows his end is near look number however it has been removed the bitterness of death the bitterness of death has been removed what does a mean in truth the bitterness of death has been removed now take the word marah the word Mar is what 240 is 240 says the holy this is next page number 21 was not the bitterness of death has now been removed death has been removed from Amal why has death been removed fromal cuz AAG is still around AAG said H you came just in time sh you might kill me now but the bitterness of death from amik has been removed because you allowed me to live one extra night and therefore says the AL this is a very fundamental Al M number 22 says the says to Esther Esther the only reason you're around the only reason you're created the only reason you're in this position the only reason why you don't have a father and you don't have a mother and you were married to me and you won the beauty contest and your's wife is to rectify Sha but if you don't Rectify sha now you will be destroyed and sha will be destroyed forever without any rectification this is your one and only chance to be M the of why does it say with 10 with an extra y says quoting the number one when sh sinned it says 10 things to to memorialize these 10 things the word yehud is spilled with ant second of all in other words when reprimanded sh he gave him 10 so to commemorate that we have an extra yud in the word now another interesting thing the end of the story tells basically take his estate take his property the Jews kill their enemies they slain 75,000 and you can imagine amim when they fight War they don't they don't come empty-handed they're wearing gold they're wearing silver they're wearing jewelry we could have you know plundered no three times in the Milla we didn't take spoils we didn't take spoils we didn't take spoils why didn't we take the spoils ah because by because sh went after the booty and the spoils and therefore to be M look in the number 26 that which the writes this was a war against now he says says about and was on this he was and said God doesn't need your carban all he wants you to do is listen so this time guess what we did we listen by the way now here is the biggest P of all you ready fasten your seat belts so now there's a Gallows waiting for morai and H is going to get morai to hang him and where is morai look at number 29 he's sitting in the B and the children are sitting in front of him wearing sackcloth learning Tyra crying out and he counts them and he finds 22,000 children he threw iron chains on them he made guards on them he says tomorrow I'm going to kill everyone and then morai and the mothers were bring them bread and water and and the mother said eat and drink because tomorrow you're going to die don't die starving like a good mama if you're going to die you you better better to be wellfed so what did they do they put their hands on their spum and they swore no we're not we not going to drink we're going to die in fasting and they all started crying and heard's mercy was aroused and what did God say what's this great voice that I hear you sound like sheep God Almighty could not tell the difference between sheep said no these are not sheep these are Jewish children that they're fasting for three days and three nights you you're going to let them be shed and then Hashem ripped up all the xeris half of a fellow what's the matters talking about did not hear Hashem can hear the difference between and the sound of sheep comes the holy and the says says page four fourth line first of all needed tell him says the end an amazing thing this sound was reminiscent of another it's reminiscent of when sha left over the sheep and Hashem said said so what does one thing have to do with the other the whole of times of that had and we're going to wipe out amik and had on the animals we're going to wipe out the animals and went after the spoils we're not going to take the spoils and when you do CH says the then your sin is rectified so to counteract what it's said by says like the magic words to CL is are those the sound of sheep that I hear meaning you've successfully rectified that sin now the then adds says it's not only that in said says three words sins turn into that when you do CH the sin of turned into not only were they they rewarded for the a called sign what's the saying the is invoking the famous principal in theara thear one place where says that Chua is great that it makes intentional sins into unintentional sins and one place says Hashem turns intentional sins into mitv and the answers no it depends become says the is what the is saying that CL on the times of reach such a high Madre of Chua it wasn't Chu only from Ham they reached the Madre of CH that the a of leaving the Sheep alive transformed into a Mitzvah and now is saying now really fast in your seat belts now what was the biggest sin the Jewish people ever did we said we ate from the and when was Hashem preparing the way to save the Jewish people at the suda while we're eating at the suda like a beema like aasa at that moment when we were doing the worst of we ever did the re was saying well let's bring vashi she's not going to listen and she's going to be killed and Esther is going to become the queen so while we're committing the greatest sin we ever did hashem's Paving the way for salvation says the that is the greatest Miracle of Pam the miracle of Pam is not the fact that we dve in and Hashem listened Hashem always listens to us the miracle is not we did Chua and Hashem accepted it hasem even accepts the chu of nve the greatest Miracle of PM is that as we're committing the greatest sin we ever committed that we deserved was still Paving the way for our Yeshua how could that be how could that be how do we understand that why would Hashem pave the way for our Yeshua why we're committing the greatest sin you ready for this comes if you look at number 34 is one of the classic commentaries on M millas and the millas SAR asked why do we celebrate P with a mish the Mish is the worst a we ever did why would we commemorate why do we drink on PM why do we have a suda the suda was the worst a we ever did why would we celebrate with a suda the answer is but when you do chuva then your a turns into a Mitzvah so actually what was the greatest mitvah ever did they ate at the the biggest Merit that CL has in its repertoire is not is not no the biggest the biggest we ever did is not the the biggest Mitzvah we ever did is we got drunk at that's the greatest act ever did therefore to commemorate the biggest Mitzvah we ever did we have a sud for says what do you mean I thought it was an a it was an A but once we did CH it's it became the greatest we ever did look at let on the fourth line we're so happy we went to that party and therefore Esther when she wanted to get ham to take a misstep she made a suda but we asked asked why would Esther make a party to H to fall but a party is a thorn in our Sid the answer is but once Esther knew we did chuva just the opposite the sudas is are greatest Merit that's what the Ruger writes the same thing as uh the nas again the nas says the reason we drink on PM because the greatest Mitzvah we ever did was the reason Esther made a party is because we don't apply inar it was a great Merit for us says you know when you do a and you do you could actually get mitz that nobody ever dreamed of you know let's say somebody goes to McDonald's and I'm not recommending it but if you did if you did and you did CH what's the mitzah what's the a going to turn into says a carbon P so it comes out you could have two people one guy grew up in you know Williamsburg and he only ate his whole life another guy grew up in Wyoming and he only ate Burger King and he became about Chua and he did Chua Maya who's on a higher madrea there's no question if the someone does cha the kid in Williamsburg never ate the carbon P but the one who did is says that's the could only fulfill 248 but the number of it's endless the possibilities are endless because is limited by but his possibilities are endless you could eat you could eat D you could wear shess you could speak it's unbelievable the opportunities out there now obviously you say you can't do so what's the greatest ever had that's what we commemorate on P but what do you mean is such a danger yeah but we can't give up commemorating the greatest that's ever reckon to now this agrees with the he has one that's says the knew we were going to do chuva and therefore already B the sin of from the yes it was the worst sin we ever did but the knew we would transform into the greatest Merit and therefore was already Paving the way for us to do sha if you look at number 37 if you have it um says it's a wonder it's an astounding wonder how could it be that at that party vashi was killed does that make any sense but the answer is CH turns they would do this is another step meaning until now we could say after the fact after we did do Chua we commemorate the a that was transformed into a mitzvah says no knew that we would do because the of the M was turned into a there's a story about a guy a young man he was engaged to marry a girl the guy's father and mother they were they have no money they could not pay not for the flowers not for the liquor not for the orchestra not for the photographer and not even for a synthetic Shel nothing she on the other hand her parents were uh so the father Kal says to the father look we know the mat over here we'll pay for everything just get your kid a suit show up and the rest is on the house sure enough the boy is on the way to the KAS where did he get a suit in some you know Bargain Basement somewhere it barely fit him but the of the the arrangements were you know five star he's on the way to the and he's riding on his horse and the horse trips in a pit of mud and the H flies off and he falls into a a mud hole and he rips his suit and he walks into a a aaz and you know everything else the father of the kala looks at the the says says look you try to buy buy a suit you did your best this time I'm going to buy you a suit when I buy you a suit I ain't going to Bargain Basement now that I'm buying the suit I'm going to buy you My Kind of suit says when you do Mitzvah how many Mitzvah could you do already so you do a Mitzvah you go to a Shear you put on Talis you put Onin with as much kav as you do the Mitzvah your Mitzvah is going to be limited by human shortcoming your Mitzvah is going to be a bargain basement Mitzvah but when you do an A and then you do CH and the is gifting you the Mitzvah what kind of Mitzvah is he gifting you he ain't gifting you a Bargain Basement Mitzvah he's gifting you his kind ofah that's what happen in the time of PM in PM you know why we we're so successful why was it for a thousand years we never reached the madga of all only P when we did the biggest we ever committed exactly the point because we were too good to be ma the because yes we were bigad but we were limited by our shortcoming but when we were n from the and we committed this atrocity and then we did and then the is bestowing this gift of a beautiful that literally propelled us higher than the m and therefore says the re sh knew this whole thing sha knew that by him not killing amalik it's going to make the Jews in big trouble they're going to be in hot water he could have said I'm sorry I didn't mean it he knew he blew it but he also knew that the Jews are going to be punished for his AA and they're going to end up eating at the and H is going to have a threat against them and because of that they're going to do chuva and that Chua is going to bring cl to so says to I upheld the word of God sh's looking at what talking about you just did a terrible a he said no realize that the ultimate repercussions OFA are going to be excuse me that's the kavana of sh says the reg of of and therefore writes is called the day of sha if you notice there's a cits for every stanza of every BR except for because P is's day it's not David's day David says leave me out of this one leave me out of PM D says I don't want any mention today is the day for sha to have his day in the Sun but leave me out of it that's why there's no uh mention ofit say in but be as a may it could be a person you know looks back at on their life and uh they look at things that they did that was wrong things that maybe we're ashamed of and things we have to do chuva for things we wish we never did sometimes things were embarrassed about but it could be that a said a person may have done in their past if a person does a proper CH it could turn out that was the biggest they ever accomplished that's you know you only wipe away the the Slate maybe is CH so to access the great yesu and to reach M of you've just experienced another Torah claim s brought to you by tor anytime.com