"RIGHT BACK AT YA" - The Purim Story Throughout History {Beis Nissim}

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com man it's a little bit of problem okay so it's a real pleasure to be here and I want to bring to your attention a major question on the Milla this is a question that the brisar mentions and asks and he gives his own answer and I believe they gave even in this generation they give to the the him some insights you know the Torah is a an endless process in every generation hasem gives new insight umad so we know the Milla ends as follows Milla tells us not only were the Jews not killed by their enemies not only did CL turn around and Destroy am and shushan and in the rest of the world says Milla guess what you know what the grand finale of the story is I'm going to lean it ashkanazi because I don't know any other way the Milla ends that taxed the people aren't you happy about that isn't that great information isn't that cause for celebration you know this already tax the people first of all what's this doing in the why is why is this mentioned in the Mig why do I need to know that tax the people I mean this is not a history book no details in the Milla were written to give you a better appreciation for the context of the times for the history in fact the very next in the says you want to know the political Intrigue the historical background the context of the story you got the wrong book it's not in this book you got to go to The Chronicles of pers media so what the mill is telling us is that the Milla is telling us is that this book was written for one reason and one reason only for Puma to publicize the miracle that means every detail in the Milla was written only to recognize the Divine Providence and the Hand of Hashem there's no information in this book that was written to get a better appreciation of the history of the times and therefore we have to ask ourselves why does the include why do I need to know that tax the people we're going to say Thursday night in the you and your great Mercy you foiled their plot and you corrupted his scheme that means means did two things to ham we would have expected what should God do to ham if there's an anti-semite who's plotting to annihilate the Jewish people we would expect God should take a lightning bolt strike him dead and then hamon would die and that would be the end of him but the in the Alan we say God did more than that he didn't just foil the plot of hon he didn't just nullify his plot he was kill he corrupted his scheme this is the Cent theme of the story of I want to share with you three words of the the is found and these three words will completely revolutionize our understanding of the P story so the PK says you know the king couldn't sleep one night he couldn't sleep you know why he couldn't sleep the Met tells us Mal griel came he took A's head and he banged it against the floor 366 times Bam Bam you know I also find personally I find it very disturbing if a angel comes and bangs your head against the it's it really it's hard to get a good night's sleep if if an angel comes starts banging your head and what's going on what's Happening and angel said did you did somebody do something good to you and you didn't reward them and say thinking you know what maybe I have to reward morai and all of a sudden he hears walking in the courtyard the king says who's in the courtyard and the P says was coming to tell the king to hang on the tree listen carefully to these words literally that hamon prepared for him that hamon prepared the tree for M but the gamar is bothered why does it have to say that ham prepared it for him obviously H prepared it for Mor just say on the tree that he prepared it we don't need to say he prepared for Mor it's obvious says the G let me tell you what it means interpreted as follows he prepared it for himself H thought he was preparing it for morai ham thought he's building the biggest Gallows in history 50 according to K this Gallow is 100t tall in the air he figured that you know this King a he's the most wishiwashi guy in the world he doesn't know what he is he doesn't know if he's a one day he's a Democrat the next day he's a republican one day he's a communist the next day he's a socialist the capitalist one day he's Russian the next day he's Ukrainian he doesn't know what he is this guy he switches back and forth and back and forth so H figures he has to get a in a fit of rage he get him angry at Mori and in that fit of rage when is angry at Mor he'll see this monstrosity of a Gallow stearing him in the face it's an eyes sore and he'll say okay hang morai because he knows that if they they have to start thinking what to do with Mor by that time will change his mind 50 times so he has to have this thing staring him in the face so that the moment he gets angry he'll just say h will say so hang Mor and they'll hang Mori and that exactly backfired against him cuz you know at the end of the story is All angry he doesn't know he didn't realize that his his wife was a Jew and he takes a step he goes outside into the into the garden and he's trying to take in fresh air and he comes back and the PK says that hon took a mstep with Esther and he fell Alita he fell on the bed that Esther was on and comes in he says are you kidding me in the palace in front of my eyes and says you know what here The Gallows f of Rage said okay hang him if the GS wouldn't have been there and he would have had to think about it I don't know you know a day later he may have changed his mind so the whole plan of hamon was to catch AOS in a fit of rage and that whole plan backfired Boomerang right back at him and he brought about his own demise now this is the central principle in the PM story in the Milla throughout Kish and throughout history and I'm going to give you a few examples so there's this really adorable baby cutest kid the only thing is he's probably in the most precarious spot in the world he's floating in a basket in the Nile River and the N River they're crocodiles you know the crocodile I was once in Phoenix so we went to this uh a zoo they had white albino crocodiles so let me tell you what this K could do crocodile could be here the trainer is where what's your name again Le leor is standing the trainer standing there with a stick with a piece of boser on the stick a schwarma the crocodile is like Frozen like you don't you don't even know if he's alive the the trainer goes like this the crocodile from here jumps cops the meat swallows the meat and is back in his spot quick than your eye could see it all you hear is Bam and you say where's the meat that's what a crocodile is and when a crocodile sees a little child in the Nile the crocodile eats the child and you didn't even know there was a child there's just going to be like a basket floating without a child and that's what happened to the majority of Jewish children who were thrown into the Nile River who were floating in the RO and this little adorable child mosa was about to be eaten by a crocodile but then he was crying in and there would happen to be a lady bathing in the river now she knew she can't take this Jewish child into her house cuz her father made a rule based on his astrological sign he got a WhatsApp from his astrologer that today the Jewish savior is going to be born you have to kill all the Jewish boys and parl said today all the Jewish boys have to die in the Nile but it was such a cute kid adorable child so she had on the kid she takes the kid say a miracle happened her arm grew she took the kid she brings him into the palace she's she's falling in love with the child adorable child that night 2 a.m. the child's where crying he crying parro says hey basio what's the racket in the Next Room I said well you know I have this really adorable child here Dad you know I'm really tired he's really keeping me up and out would you mind holding him for an hour so parro comes out his pajamas he puts on his robe he takes the k K he's rocking this little Jewish child and then at 3:00 a.m. parro says you know what the kid is starving we don't have any formula on the palace so Bas said do me a favor dad go out to CVS and get him some formula par said I don't have any money she said don't worry use your American Express card and farro 3:00 a.m. goes out to CVS gets the kid formula then Basia registers him into in the Egyptian gun in the nursery school who's paying for his tuition the Pharaoh and then he grows up and izra asks why in the world did God have the leader of the Jewish people grow up in the house of pharaoh he should grow up with CLA Israel he should go to Yesa he should learn in missa he should learn to with Rebel with the mar and the what's he growing up in the Egyptian house says IB Ezra that if Mosin would have grown up but with the Jewish people he never would have been a leader cuz the Jews were slaves they had a slave mentality they had low morale and moshu would have grown up to be you know a schlepper he had to be the leader so he had to learn royalty he had to learn leadership so Pharaoh would say mosha would come home and Mosa's tie would be a little crooked and the Pharaoh would say hey pal straighten out your tie you're going to be a leader one day and Par taughtu how to be man to be the leader of clown Israel now parro thought he was making a decree to destroy the leader of the Jewish people not only did he not destroy the leader of the Jewish people parro made created groomed the leader of the Jewish people you know what it says in remember that yeah Moshe but who made Moshe parro made Moshe without parro we wouldn't be here today without par we'd be here eating french fries because of parro we're here we're learning Tor was created by par why because God says you think parro scares me you give me parro I'll use parro to save the Jewish people that's how God works God says you give me the biggest anti-semite you think I need your man in Washington to help the Jewish people you think only if the Jewish candidate wins then it'll be good for the Jews only if our man as a prime minister of Israel only we put in our guy then it will be good for the Jews you give me the biggest Rasha the biggest anti-semite in the White House in the Prime Minister it doesn't matter who it is I use these puppets to bring yes for that's the way the operates let me give you another example then we'll come to M then we'll I'll show you how this uh appears throughout history there was a man by the name ofad not y before him the nvi the prophet oad Prophet said one in the Torah one peric one chapter he prophesied about the downfall of ask why does Oya prophecy about the downfall of Edom because he came from Edom he descended from Edomite converts so therefore he's going to prophecy about the downfall of Adam says the gar this is the principle in English we call it from the forest itself comes the handle for the axe yeah from the forest itself comes the handle for the axe that will chop down the forest God doesn't need to import the axe from China to because I know it would take like three months to get here so Hashem has to Hashem says you give me the forest from the forest itself will come the handle for the axe let me give you a few examples in the Mah so Haman made a decree and the decree was that on the 13th day of Adar the governors the officials the Mayors the presidents will turn around and destroy their Jewish citizens so the text of the document said we're going to send out documents they're all going to be knocked off on the 13th day of but the next verse says the text of the document that was known in all the communities that was revealed before all the nations all the text said was be ready for that day so let me explain ham sent two different documents to the governors he sent the document on the 13th of Adar you're going to gather everyone together you're going to arm them and you're going to annihilate all your Jewish citizens however the the posters and the signs that went up on every street corner all the poster said was be ready for the 13th day of AD and what's going to happen ham didn't say why didn't hamon say don't go anywhere you're going to it's good stuff okay good okay ham didn't want to tell the citizens what's going to happen on the 13th day of Adar why not H was a smart man H thought to himself if the Jews ever got winned of what's going to happen on the 13th day of Adar if they knew what was in store for them then they were going to do what we do best they're going to go to their local Governor their local official they're going to pull out their wallet they're going to hand them green rectangles and they're going to bribe their way out of it so Haman did not want the Jewish people to know what was in store for them otherwise they would uh wiggle out of it they would pay their way out of it so hum told H told the governors what would happen but he never legislated officially what's going to happen on the 13th day of Adar all he wrote was be ready on that day fast forward to the end of the story so Esther tells the king king you wouldn't believe it you know what my nationality is he says you're Syrian no you're North Korean you're you're Ukraine no what what are you said I'm Jewish and ham wants to kill you okay that's it he got really angry and then ham took the misstep with Esther and said let's hang ham and Esther said okay what's going to be with the Jews said you're going to be annihilated she said what I thought I thought you love me I love you but what could I do I already stamped the documents of ham they gonna be annihilated on the 13th day of once I gave my word that you're going to be annihilated on the 13 of I can't retract it that's just the way it is I can't take back I can't resin my decree so Esther said okay I understand I respect your honesty but I just want to remind you what it said in the decree s said oh yeah what did it say in the decree it said nothing in the decree it didn't say anything it just said be ready for the 13th day of Adar hon did not want to write in the decree what would happen because he didn't want us to know about it so let's just reinterpret the decree then instead of you us getting killed by the enemies we'll turn around and kill our enemies said great idea so's whole plan backfire on him he thought he would leave it empty he thought it would be a blank check so this way the Jews wouldn't figure out what would happen to him what would happen to them turns out that he laid his own demise because he he did it that way and it came back to haunt him here's my almost favorite example of the m so has this wife he wants her to display herself she doesn't listen so he's stuck what what do you do if you're the king of the world and your wife doesn't listen what do you do you make tomorrow make another the next day so knock her off but doesn't do that what does he do he asks he has to ask his advisers isn't that odd you do you think any emperor of the world ever asked their advisor what to do with their wife you think uh King Henry ever ask his advisor what you think Alexander the Great ever asked his advisers you think Stalin ever asked anybody their opinion of course not so what's doing asking advisors the Milla explains the Milla says the law in Persia was that even though the king could always call his own shots and make his own decisions nevertheless whenever it was relevant to the king himself he had to ask the advice of his advisers he could decide anything in the world unilaterally but whenever it was relevant to him he had to ask the advice of his Congress really fast forward to the end of the story remember the end of the story so steps out of the palace he's fuming at ham and then he comes back into the palace and he sees the Unspeakable ham had the audacity the ham and says you're doing this front of my eyes so what does tell hang him so what does do he hangs him how could he hang him why doesn't he have to ask the advice of his Congress Why by vashi he had to ask the Congress and with Hon he doesn't have to ask anybody double standard says the V that's because the law in Persia changed because when didn't know what to do with Vash a man walked in and the P says said Vash is not sitting against you vashi has now insulted every husband in the world from now on we're going to legislate a new law do you know what kind of lunacy this is that you're the king of the world and you can't decide what to do with your wife from now on from now on you call all the shots you make all the decisions on your own who's m ham why is ham telling a to call all the shots cuz he wants to empower hamon because he couldn't stand vashi because vashi and Mrs hamon did not get along vashi didn't invite Mrs H to the party so hmon thought he would be advancing his own cause by legislating in Persia that the king calls all the shots little did he know that later on in the story when he takes the misstep and a doesn't know what to do with him he doesn't have to ask anybody who do we have to thank for a being able to knock off H and not ask anybody H ham made his own bed and I want to share with you and I say this a lot this is like my favorite idea on the M it's so I was learning saer Ezra and in saer Ezra we read about how at the end of the 70 years of Galis B the Jews finally return they go back to the Holy Land and what do they want to do they want to build the bet mikdash so they turn to the king who's the King of Persia at the time anybody know King Henry King George he's dead Who Dares very good give him a extra sandwich Dar darus myself what I'll take it myself dares and they say Darius do us a favor help us build the temple Darius said what what do you want from me they said we want money so he said make a charity campaign you know send it out to people make they said they didn't invent that yet how are we going to get money so Darius said you know what I'll do you a favor says the PK and Ezra Darius opened up the treasury of the king and he gave the Jews all the tax money to build the second bikash and I ask you one simple question where did Darius get all this tax money from and the answer is he got the tax money from all the taxes that his dad charged all the kingdoms under his offices a taxed the people it went into his treasury a died Darius inherited he gave all the money back back to the Jewish people to fund the second mikdash so now we understand how the purm story has come full circle The Story begins that a is having a party what's he celebrating 70 years are up and the temple isn't built and if the temple is not built now the temple will never be rebuilt aash was eating spbs he was drinking wine celebrating the fact that the temple would never be rebuilt by the end of the purm story not only will the temple be rebuilt a has become the chief fundraiser to build the sponsor this is dedicated mother and father became the chief fundraiser of the second now but let's take it a step deeper The Story begins is having a party so CNN came to interview AOS and they said what are you celebrating said I'm celebrating the Eternal ruination of the Jewish temple and we're going to eat here and we're going to be merry and we're going to cause the Jews to sin and we're going to use their Kim and their Temple will never be rebuilt and God is laughing God's saying fake news you think this Temple you think this party is celebrating the Eternal destruction of MD watch this Vash she doesn't come oh he's Furious he kills vashi he marries Esther he has a kid Darius he charges the people taxes he dies he gives all the money to Darius and the party caused the building of the second temple so thought he was celebrating the destruction of the second mikdash and God made it Not only was he not celebrating the destruction he was celebrating preparing to rebuild the second temple that's how God works God says I'm not afraid of we're down here in this world we get very nervous who's the president who's the Prime Minister who cares God says you give me the biggest Rasha the biggest anti-semite the biggest son is and I use them as a pawn as a puppet to carry out that is why the grand finale of taxes the people he was celebrating would never be rebuilt and in the end of the day he's working for the eug ja collecting money to rebuild the second temple but this concept repeats itself throughout history let me give you two examples what's the biggest Isa in America Lakewood Lakewood who built Lakewood yiva Cutler Rabbi Cutler to you yeah thank you Rabon Cutler that's what people think somebody else I won't tell you who built like you know there other I Lear it's also holy lot of great what this also it's a holy Mak Tor who built Torah in America I'll tell you a story 530 years ago there was a couple evil couple they had a plan they're going to purge the Iberian Peninsula from all the Muslim infidels and all the Jewish infidels so they conquered the entire Iberian Peninsula and then they said as a reward to their so-called God they're going to ex um expel 300,000 Jews from Spain so King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella expelled on Thursday April 2nd Tish of 1492 300,000 Jews in gratitude to their so-called God and the Jews were left they went to Italy they went to mayorca they went to Portugal they went all over the world jalar and we have a report from a boy a cabin boy who was leaving the port in 1492 on Thursday April 2nd and in The Archives of cevil it's record recorded that this boy saw he was being taken to be sold as a slave in Africa this boy saw parked in the dock three boats the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria and he saw Christopher Columbus and the next day Friday April 3rd 1492 where was Columbus going to to to discover the new world and who paid for his expedition Ferdinand and Isabella and what did clamus discover the greatest Haven in the history of the world for the Jewish people where more and bigger yeshivas were built than anywhere else in the world who discovered America Ferdinand and Isabella who paid for the discovery they did why did they pay because they thought they were expelling all the Jews from Spain that the Jewish people would never have a Homeland they would never have a Haven they would never be able to practice the religion they would never build theote so God said really you don't think the the the Jewish people will build theot you don't think they'll have a again a betet Jewish Community not only will they you're going to pay to discover it and it's going to far surpass anything that ever existed in Spain in the Golden Age of Spain which you know there was no golden age in Spain it never happened it's a madeup story you know it's like when we left Egypt and he said oh remember the sushi we ate in Egypt remember the Cucumbers we ate in Egypt there are no cucumbers in Egypt but that's the Jew when we leave the Gus we remember how great it was in in the gas it's not true it's fantasy there was no golden age of Spain we had like a few minutes to breathe in between them trying to kill us that was the Golden Age of Spain when we went in between one guy trying to run after us with a sword and another guy trying to chop off our heads that was the Golden Age of Spain so who paid for the United States of America who discovered it why do we have the Lakewood Yeshiva who founded it King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in the last 200 years who is the biggest enemy of the Jewish people which country Hitler Hitler ukrainians it's a close bed they they all qualify to for for the great title however in the last 200 years the Russians were probably the biggest enemy of the Jewish people already by 1920 2 million Russian Jews left the country because in the in the 19th century the Russians had a plan to murder all their Jewish citizens three-step plan they're going to exterminate a third expel a third convert a third so two million Jews left in the last 60 years who is the main Thunder of Arab aggression against Jews Russia Stalin killed 20 million people but he thought that Hitler didn't do a good enough job and he was going to kill two to four million Jews that were left in Russia after World War II I'm going to come back to that in a moment you know people think Hitler the the Germans invented systematic extermination of Jewish people no no the Russians didn't they were just a little bit slow you know in Russia if you want to buy a new car so you give the dealer 30,000 and he says come back in 15 years and we'll give you the car so The Story Goes the guy said okay I'll come back in 15 years morning or afternoon he says he said what do you care if it's morning afternoon it's 15 years he said I can't come in the morning the Plumber's coming in the morning right that's how things work in Russia so the Russians they invented systematic extermination of Jewish people and the Germans got it down they perfected it and yet 1947 we're losing the war in Israel and God put into the head of the biggest tyrant in Russia in history Stalin killed 20 million people what he did he removed nations from country he removed the nobody did what stal and then everybody swore allegiance to him so now everyone's his eved who else had such control Stalin got in his head oh the Jews are losing the war in the Middle East but then Britain will win and I don't want Democratic Britain in the Middle East the Israelis they're going to be socialists so they'll be Communists I like communism in the Middle East so who funded the war of independence Stalin that was the turning point in the war if not for Stalin there would be no no and no pich in and no brisk in is and we wouldn't have the Ki and and who did God use as a tool that we should have a homeand to build Ty isra the biggest Russia in history Stalin why that's how God operates God says you give me the Russia you give me his plans you give me his schemes I'm not afraid of him I don't need to knock him off I will use him and you pull him like a puppet to bring about yes he died on thank you but don't steal my I'm gonna get thank you very good a built the second B mikash Ferdinand and Isabella discovered the great country of the United States of America greatest Haven the Jewish people ever had Stalin is responsible for the a that we have today 1953 though Stalin realized is Israel ain't going communist so he uh he decided he's going to exterminate between 2 to 4 million Jews in soov in Russia his plan was he um tried six seven or 12 doctors they were convicted of poisoning so-called Russian children they were going to go to trial on March 5th March 6th already he had the railroad system in place to transport 3 million Jews in Russia to the Trans Siberian area kazak where there were four concentration camps and by the way in trans Siberia when it's 85° below 0 all three million Jews would have been dead shalom in two weeks that was the plan the railroad systems were built the railroads were there the concentration camps were built and he didn't have to do anything no gasing nothing just bring them to that region and the date was February 28th 19 19 53 the day before puim zilber the great Russian refusenik was in a labor camp and he says you know tonight is puim tonight we're going if we had a Miga we would read the Miga we would read the story of how 2 200 years ago God saved the Jewish people in Persia and one Russian Jew who has already imprisoned for 10 years said Rabbi what are you telling me nonsense about what happened 2 200 years ago that was hon this is Stalin Stalin is an ax Stalin will live forever Stalin was strong like a mule they thought he' live to be 195 and rra say yeah Stalin is is a is a tough guy but he's buam he's Flesh and Blood nobody knows what will be with it even within 30 minutes this is what zilber said at 7:50 p.m. right before the time they would would have read M now I want to tell you about another Russian refus neck who taught Torah publicly was incarcerated in solitary confinement you know what solitary confinement is they take a guy they put him in the closet you can't talk to anybody you don't know if it's day or night not for a day not for a week for years they took re they threw him in a prison he didn't know if it was y or if it was L only every day he got a slab of bread under the door and a pale of water they said how how did you maintain your sanity he said I knew if I'm going to teach toah publicly they could come and get me any day so I memorized saer toim And I memorized and that's what I did all day I said toim and I reviewed Mish and he's there for 2 years and in the city his wife now all his children already killed in the Holocaust he had one surviving daughter nobody was allowed to talk to his wife and and daughter nobody was allowed to look at them if you winked at them the Russians carry you away to Siberia who are they going to give M to on Pim the mother gave it to the daughter the daughter gave to the mother that P him morning all of a sudden Reade nobody brought him water nobody brought him bread he it's not locked he opened the door what happened that night 8:23 p.m. 33 minutes after AB zra said Stalin doesn't even know what's going to be in 30 minutes he stroked that on PM Stalin stroked on purm 1953 10 days before he was going to eradicate 3 million Russian Jews zilber said I didn't know at first can I pray for Stalin to die he said he also knew the whole because when you're in labor camp what are you going to do all day he memorized the whole toim he did not stop saying toim until he heard 10 days later on February on March 5th Stalin died a day before the trains were going to take 3 million Jews to be killed in trans Siberia that PO morning ré mis's daughter and mother they hear a knock on the door who's there it's their father they they they didn't know if they were alive they didn't know if they were alive what happened Stalin died a thousand Jewish prisoners just walked out of jail and they're free when did it happen on porm Sayes of mosha Feinstein what's the name of the holiday Purim what does Purim mean puim means the lot why in the world would we name a a yum over about a lottery the lottery is what endangered Our Lives why would we name the YP after a lottery the lesson of puim is that a person's fate can change on a dime you know somebody once came to ra for and ra what do you want a for he said I want a for and for andha said what about parasa he said no I have parasa says ra that's what you need a for because you think you have parasa but in this world things change on a DI that's the lesson of Pur your success we always have to pray even if a person is successful and he's doing well and is uh being in a certain you have to be like you don't have it but the reverse is also true person is in a We Believe that just like that can you imagine the Jewish people they thought Mor was wearing sack cloth so when they saw somebody riding through the street riding on the Royal Horse who did they think would be leading on the Royal Horse they figured morai is going to be leading Ham on the Wild Horse and they could not believe what they're saying they said what Mor is on the horse and ham second in command he's leading the horse what is this you see that's that the fate of the Jewish people can change on a dime and it's happened before and we pray every we believe that all of these whether they're the premier of Russia Today whatever country they're in North Korea China of course they don't like us yes and they're very powerful but just sit back watch the show prefers those people those are the kinds of guys likes you know why the students of the villain going explain because we live in the galut and in the galut there's not going to be the splitting of the Red Sea Hashem is not going to make makot there's not going to be any open Miracles so how can we know for sure that it's the re orchestrating everything it's this type of where hasem says you give me the rash and I will use him to bring about yeshu for that is the most incontrovertible the clearest evidence that it's pulling the strings so when you see building the second temple and the Spanish Inquisition discovering America and Stalin assisting CL is to regain is then we know that be behind all the behind all the concealment behind all the darkness is the most brilliant light in the world the light of puim the says that the of Purim is more bright is more brilliant than the light of yam of Shabbat of any holiday of the year and therefore Kasam s writes something incredible and this is sourced in Nal and it's almost impossible to say and who could say such thing didn't say it he says the light that is contained in the light in the is actually greater and this has to be understood but there's a certain Dimension the light contained in galat is greater than the light in the Torah itself so we hope that through the Merit of this holy day should bestow on all of us on all of CL is and all of our families and all of our communities on each one of us and yes thank you very much thank you thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com