"RIGHT BACK AT YA" - The Purim Story Throughout History {Tichon Meir Moshe High School}

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning everyone thank you so much for this opportunity I'm very honored to share uh a few Thoughts with you before the the most important thing you need to know is that hu gladstein is on the phone and she's listening she asked me to call her and she's doing great and uh that's really my here that uh as to be a parent here for four years and I'm still enjoying the fact that uh we made that decision to send uh to TMM and uh I wasn't asked to say anything but in uh I think there's a certain lost appreciation in in uh especially in the world that we live in to appreciate the value of adite which I think is very much uh appreciated here in TMM and you should all be to continue to uh build upon what you're learning here in the uh uh in the bov and you should only have and all of your endeavors so I love talking about P PM PM is my favorite subject for many reasons firstly my grandparents um my grandfather just passed away this year at almost 106 years old he was a survivor of the Holocaust he was a benas by ra zba he was in aitz he saw amalik he saw ham he saw mangala he was on the selection lines he sawman he saw the and he defeated amalik and after the war there's a famous Story the general of the American Army gave my grandfather a pistol and he said Rabbi here here take revenge against your enemy and my grandfather said revenge against my enemy it's been 5 years since I've been able to get back to my gamar now I could come back to my gamarra that's my freedom that's my revenge so my grandparents they came to America they didn't know their their birthday they didn't remember remember my grandfather was had his BR tomorrow on tinest so he was named Mori so he knew he was connected to porim my grandmother my grandmother was the daughter of the r of sahav the last R of the city of sahav they didn't know when they were born so they adopted purm as their birthday so to our family purm is you know is the biggest yam of the year and I want to share with you an idea this idea I think is m am and I I think that this idea will give us a new perspective of the PM story as well as current events and give us a perspective of what's happening in the world today so the Milla concludes very strangely you know the Milla tells us not only did not only did CL turn around and take revenge against but guess what you know what happened taxed the people wow what a great grand finale what a great Pinnacle that's the crescendo the story tax the people who cares who cares that he taxed the people that's the way the story ends we know the McGill wasn't written to give us understanding of the politics of the time the mcgilla wasn't G written so that we have a better appreciation for the political Intrigue and the what's taking place in the palace the mcgilla even says if you want to know the rest to the story you want to get a background of the story you want to know the rest of the story you got the wrong book it's not in this book you got to go to The Chronicles of Persia and media and there you'll get all the palace Intrigue and all the political background but this book was written for one reason and one reason only to publicize the miracle ofes the divine intervention so why does the Milla end on this random note that AOS taxed the people and none other than the brisar asked this question why is this the ending of Migel sesta so I would like to share with you I think it's an original answer I didn't see it anywhere and it will just completely open up your appreciation for the story of M and really for Jewish history in general thear M tells us that couldn't sleep one night you know it's very interesting Med the med says you know why couldn't sleep there was a Mal Gabriel came he took A's head and he banged his head against the floor 366 Times by the way just personally I find that very disturbing let's say your M sleeping and aala com starts banging it could be very disturbing during sleep and 300 66 times and said what's the matter why can't I fall asleep and Gabriel said well maybe you didn't reward somebody maybe your conscience is bothering you so remembered he didn't reward Mor and then all of a sudden he hears Footsteps in the the king says who's walking in the it's 2 am was coming to the outer Courtyard of the king to tell the king to hang listen carefully on the tree and the Mig says three words that he prepared for him literally that H prepared for M that he prepared for M but very good you ready know the gamar the gamar tells us that the word La is extra obviously ham prepared it for Mori so just say that he prepared why does it have to say that he prepared for him says the he didn't prepare it for Mori he really prepared it for himself he was laying he was setting his own table he was laying the groundwork to hang himself as the V explains that H understood that a was the most wishy-washy guy in the world he was he blew with the wind one day he's a Democrat the next day he's a republican one day he's a Russian the next day he's Ukrainian one day he's capitalist next day he's socialist he can't make up his mind what he is he changes his mind every day so the only way that Hammon would convince Mor to actually to convince to hang Mor is he's going to get a in a fit of rage and in his cost in his fit of rage he'll just say oh he'll look at his window he'll see this 50 feed this 100 foot Gallows this monstrosity an eyes sore and say so hang him and before he could even think about it morai will be hanging and that's exactly what backfired on hamon so hamon took a misstep with est and got angry and in a fit of rage said so hang him if a would have thought about it for a day maybe he would have said you know maybe H made a mistake maybe but he didn't have time so his whole plan backfired against him he prepared his own demise and uh he set his own table tomorrow night in less than 36 hours we're going to say the following two expressions we're going to say you and your great Mercy you foiled the plot of ham and maybe if I was writing something about P I would have stopped right there theam foiled the plot of ham you know we think that what does need to do if there's an enemy if there's an anti-semite if there's a son isra who's threatening us and there's a looming decree so the needs to knock him off says I don't need to knock him off I don't just I could do better than that we say corrupted his scheme which means ream says that I don't need your guy in the your man in the white house I don't need your man as the prime minister of erel I don't need anybody you give me the biggest Russia the biggest anti-semite you give me his plans you give me his schemes you give me his machinations I will co-opt hijack them and use them against the Russia to bring Salvation to the Jewish people this is the central principle of and Jewish history we just have to open our eyes to it so I'm going to start with the first example there's this adorable baby a really really cute kid and he's in a basket and he's floating in the most dangerous river in the world he's floating in the N River you know in the N River when what do you you call a baby floating in the Nile River you call it lunch for a crocodile I once had uh I once had the opportunity to speak in Phoenix Arizona so they took me to um a zoo and in the zoo there was a albino crocodile it's a white crocodile and the the crocodile is standing there it doesn't move you think it's like dead you think it's Stone and the trainer comes in with a stick like a 10-ft stick on the end of the stick is like a piece of spare ribs and the crocodile is here the trainer is like 10 ft away the trainer goes like this faster than your eye could take in the sight the crocodile jumps eats the meat and it's back in its spot and your eye didn't even see it that's how fast it moves so if a baby is floating in the Nile River the baby becomes a very nutritious wholesome meal for a crocodile that's what happened to the majority of the Jewish babies that were floating in the Nile River because the Pharaoh parro got a message from his astrologer that the Jewish savior is going to be born today and there has to be a law in Egypt that everybody has to dump the Jewish children into the Nile and call and Paro thought he was going to eradicate and annihilate the savior of the Jewish people but look how the ream look what theam did in the n is bathing parro's daughter and she hears the baby crying and she and she stretches out her arm and Kaz say miraculously her arm grew six 60 maybe longer and she brings the kid home and that night at 2 a.m. parro from his other room he says hey basio what's going on yeah you have a baby in your room dad you wouldn't believe what happened I found this little adorable kid and he's just delicious you know I'm really tired he's been keeping him up would you mind holding him a little bit so parro comes into the room he's racking this little kid to sleep and P say I think the kid is hungry and B say yeah we don't have formula when was the last time we had a baby in the palace do me a favor dad go out to CVS get some formula for the kid parro says I don't have M he said use your American Express card and parro goes out and he feeds mosha and he pays for Mosa's food and he pays for mosha G education and he sent him to the best schools in Egypt and who's grooming mhu par who's paying for mhu par izra says that why did Hashem orchestrated that par should grow up under the wing of that that mosha should grow up under the wing of parro and not with the rest of CLA is says izra if mha would have grown up with CLA is he would have had a slave mentality he would have had a little morale like the rest of the Jewish people he never would have been groomed for leadership so he had to grow up under the nose of parro so parro would tell him hey Misha stand straight you're going to be a leader one day make sure your shoes are shined par created M Ru if not for Paro we wouldn't be here we would be eating popcorn in this room we wouldn't be learning Tyra you know the Mish without parro there would not have been a m so parro thought he was a eradicating the savior of the Jewish people Hashem said nice Tri watch this you're going to make a law not only is that law not going to eradicate the savior of the Jewish people that very law will createu and groom The Greatest R in our history to bring CL Adam and give us the T so you know maybe we should put up a plaque on TMM this Yesa in gratitude to if not for him we wouldn't be here today and we have to thank his decree of and then we have somebody by the name of I was just in a few weeks ago AA right we were there we went to the K ofii said one he said 21o of n about the downfall of Edam anded asks why did prophecy about the downfall of Ed says the G the following principle in English from the forest itself comes the handle for the axe which means that when Hashem has the Forester chop down the forest he doesn't import the axe from China from that Forest itself comes the wood to hold the axe that will chop down that Forest so who's going to prophecy about the downfall of who descended from Edomite converts because that's the way the works the says I don't need the big sadic to bring Salvation to the Jewish people I don't need someone who you think is your friend to bring us Yeshua you give me the enemy you give me the Russia you give me parro and I will use parro's plans to exterminate CLA Isel to bring Yeshua for cl is let me give you a few examples from ailer here's number one hmon was scheming to eradicate and he sent message to all the governors and all the officials and all the mayors that that tomorrow by the way you know there's uh even though Hally tinest perhaps is the most lenient of all the fast days but it's the most stringent of all the fast days because there's an idea that when H made a decree to annihilate CLA is and ratified the decree by the way the say the reason why hm's name is not in the m is because since it says in the Milla that H was going to eradicate CLA and Hashem allowed that to happen if Hashem would have endorsed it with his name then it would have been fed complete that this would happen um time and again and again so Hashem said leave me out of this I'm not putting my name in the Milla and there's an idea that every year we have a looming decree of hon that we need to abolish by fasting on ttin in fact in the Kum say that periodically throughout history the decree of ham did come to fruition so the was the progenitor of satmer he writes he wrote a very interesting commentary on Mig called that the decree of hamon was fulfilled in the year T 1648 1649 the time of theki PS look in Migel every Mig starts with a big ends with a big tough the big and the Big T represent the year 1648 1649 when the decree of hon came to fruition and I'm sure you've all heard and if you didn't there's a nice book you could get that talks about it that in the year 1946 hamon was squelched and was mitigated and that is represented by the small T Shin Z in the when the 10 Nazis were hung and some suggest that the big V in the 10 sons of hamon represent another time that hamman's decree came to fruition the big six the 6 million yen 1939 to 1945 so it's all in Milla sester all of these events are in Miller and Hashem said I don't want to put my name in the Milla because I cannot indorse what hamon did but there's an idea that hamon's decree is not finished it's something we have to deal with and reckon with annually so hon had this decree and he was trying to think you know if he lets the word out of the the the word out that the Jewish people will be annihilated on the 13th of Adar then you know what we're going to do we would catch wind of it and we would pull out of our wallets green rectangles and we would bribe the officials and the governors and the Mayors and we would pay our way out of it so H had he's going to write two sets of letters if you look in the Milla every time it talks about H's decree happening on the 13th of Adar the very next p says the text of the documents all the documents that the regular people saw said be ready for the 13th of AD and what's going to happen just just get ready the governors knew what would happen the officials knew what would happen but nobody else knew what would happen CLA Isel only got Wind Through Esther and through morai but the official text of the document did not say what would happen why did H do that because he thought if the Jewish people know exactly what's going to take place on they'll abolish the decree so when the tables turned and Esther revealed that she was Jewish and a said oh I feel so bad for you so Esther said okay fine so what's going to happen to my people s said what do you mean what's going to happen to your people you're going to be annihilated Esther said I thought I thought but I revealed I'm I'm a yid I'm Jewish don't you love me that's says yeah sure but we have to annihilate your people because I already ratified the decree that the Jewish people will be annihilated on the 13th of I can't resend the decree so Esther said wait wait a second let me take a look at that decree again and they looked at the decree and the decree didn't say anything it just said be aware be ready on the 13th of Adar it didn't actually say what was going to happen so Esther said you see that's that fool hamon he never wrote what's going to happen so if he never wrote Let's just turn the tables and now instead of them killing us we'll kill them so hamon thought he was going to leave the decree ambiguous so that he could Advance his own cause and sure enough used the very plan of hamon to be able to turn the the tables so that we kill theim instead of Vice Versa and this is my second to favorite example in the mill so has a problem with his wife now back in the day if you're the king and you have a problem with your wife then it didn't usually end too well for her for him there's usually a like the next day but that's the way it worked and does not killing her what's he doing he's convening the great Royal assembly of he's asking what's he asking the advice of the man isip you know means he ruled the globe he was the most powerful emperor in the world why is he asking anybody's advice what to do with Vash so the Von explains the says what do those words mean means the law in Persia was that the king can make a unilateral decision can make any decision on his own provided he's not no but if it's relevant to him then he has to ask the advice of the assembly so couldn't just kill Vash because it's it's relevant to him so he asked the advice of his assembly so I have a question for you fast forward to the end of the story so Esther reveals herself and Esther says I'm a Jew and so who want this guy H he wants to kill you is fuming and he goes outside into the courtyard he goes outside into the garden and the gar tells us that theim were chopping down all of the trees in's backyard says who told you to do this and the said told us this now is really fuming and the smoke is coming out of his ears now and he comes back into the room and H did something improper and now he said get out of here and says what about the tree why don't we use the tree now says good idea why is a allowed to make his own decision and just to say hang him why is a not legally required to assemble the Congress of Persia and ask their advice of what to do with h that's what he did with Vash why doesn't he have to do that with h says the because the law in Persia was changed there's a guy his name is this she's not just insulting you she's insulting all husbands so I need you to ratify a new law do you realize how ridiculous it is that you're the king of the world and you can't decide what to do with your own wife you know what those words mean from now on you call the all the shots you make all the decisions relevant to you not relevant to you don't ask anybody's advice so who passed the law in Persia that allowed a just to kill hamon ham miman is ham ham now why did miman pass that law because he didn't like vashi because Mrs hon and vashi they didn't see eye to eye vashi didn't invite Mrs hon to the big suda and that's a separate Haw I'm not going to get into right now but just put it put it this way the two of them did not get along and that's a subject ask your teachers about they didn't like each other and hamon didn't like the fact that his wife wasn't invited so he figured let me Empower to kill Vash but instead of empowering to Kash he's empowering to hang himself self so Hashem says I don't need a big sadic in the white house and I don't need a big sadic as the King of Persia you give me the biggest anti-semite you let him come up with the biggest the most vicious plot and I will use his plan to save the Jewish people you know what's going to create mosa the gazer Paro to throw all the Jewish children into the Nile you know who's going to hang hamon hamon's Gallows you know which law is going to allow to hang H's law and had and I was learning sa for Ezra I believe in par Zion and we're learning about the story of dares Darius you know who dares is who's dares he's the son of Esther and a and now is long gone is dead and darish is the King of Persia and the Jewish people return after 70 years and they say Darius do us a favor we want to go back to the B mikdash and we build the base of the problem is we have no money would you help us out maybe have an A so Darius said why don't you make a charity campaign he said no they didn't invent that yet right so so what are we supposed to do so Dar said you know what I'll do you a favor says the P dares opened up the Royal Treasury and gave all the tax money to the Jewish people to rebuild the second B mikdash and I ask you one simple question where do you think dares got all that tax money from to rebuild the secondes oh now we understand why the Milla ends off that taxes the people because by the end of the story not only are our lives saved not only will we destroy am but now is going to collect money from the Persians then he's going to die will inherited and now has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second B mikd but watch how the story has come full circle because the Story begins that a sud and what's he's celebrating he's celebrating the fact that the B will never be rebuilt and says let's take out all the of bikash said 70 years the 70 years are up and there's no bikash there'll never be bikash and is laughing no there won't be a b mikdash by the end of the story you will be funding the second B mikdash but watch this if you would have asked if let's say the news would come yes world news will come what are you doing right now well what I'm doing now is I'm celebrating the fact that the Jewish temple will never be rebuilt and is laughing really that's what the sud is actually not come she doesn't want to come s kills vashi now he marries Esther has a kid dares gives him all his tax money and builds the second bikash so this party was not celebrating the B of mdash would never be rebuilt this was the collection to rebuild the second mikdash that's a different perspective of Milla sester the Milla ends the way it it began it began a thought he was celebrating Corbin by the end of the story has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second M mikdash but don't think that this principle of hash is limited to Migel this principal continues throughout Jewish history give you two more examples you ever hear of Lakewood Yeshiva who built the Lakewood Yeshiva Von Cutler right maybe I would say you know there's this couple they lived about 500 years ago and they had an idea to expel from the Iberian Peninsula every Muslim Infidel and every Jewish Infidel it's called Rec conquesta King Ferdinand Queen Isabella as in gratitude to their so-called fake God they were going to banish 300,000 Jews in 1492 August 2nd Thursday Tish and they said there will never again be a Haven for the Jewish people they'll never build Yeshiva still never have bia still they'll never have bakov they'll never be Jewish life the Jewish people will never rise to prominence but we have a record of a cabin boy who was taken out in 1492 on that Thursday he was being taken to be sold as a slave to Africa and he records and this is actually in the archive in sevil sevil is one of the Spanish cities the of Cil so in the archives of cevil this Cabin Boy writes that on that fateful Thursday he was sailing out of the harbor of Spain and he saw three boats par parked in the dock the names of the boats were the Nina the Pinta the Santa Maria with Christopher Columbus on board who is preparing his voyage funded financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that Columbus should discover the new world says Ferdinand you think you're going to take away a Haven for the Jewish people you think Spain was a good Haven Spain is nothing compared to what you're about to pay for who discovered America who is responsible for TMM Lakewood Yesa Dar in Berlin Yesa tadas the Yesa I learned in Yesa Ferdinand Ferdinand discovered all of these great yeshivas he paid for if not for him so M we should have a plaque on all theas thanking Ferdinand and Isabella we should have a plaque on per stanking par we should have a every you know that's why um I'm already a little confused you know the question is how is it possible somebody's going to drink so much they don't know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy no then explains who did more for cl Israel Mor or H think about what H did because of H Vash was killed and Esther married and there was a who built the second so actually it's a close call who did more for CLA is if you really think about it it's actually a very difficult question to answer who's who accomplished more par or M hamon or M Ferdinand or the great russas that built Tyra in America one more example in the last 200 years this Friday night I don't know I I wasn't able to sleep well and this is also maybe you know this already but this is also Matana for the last 200 years who is the greatest enemy of the Jewish people which country most people would say Germany because Germany uh they created the idea not only of killing Jews but systematic extermination but actually the Germans did not create that concept it was created by the Russians the Russians could the only thing is the Russians weren't very good at it you they do things very slowly you know in Russia if you want to buy a new car you give the dealer $30,000 and he says come back in 17 years you'll get the car so the guy asked should I come in the morning or in the afternoon so what differ do make get 17 years he said no in the morning the Plumber's coming you know that's how things work in Russia so the Russians invented that's why before 1920 2 million Jews already left Russia you know that the Russians had a plan to exterminate all the Jews of Russia before 1920 they would murder a third they would expel a third they would convert a third in the last 60 years who is the main sponsor of Arab aggression against the Jewish people Russia you know that after the Holocaust Stalin I'm going to talk about I'm going to end with this Stalin was going to create concentration camps actually he did he made four concentration camps he was going to exterminate all the Jews of Russia and yet in 1947 1948 and whatever your position is the Jewish people were in s they were losing the war Britain was funding the Arabs to not to drive the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea and says let me look for the best Russia to pick to help clis and RAM turned to the biggest Russia in the last 200 years Stalin Stalin already killed more than 20 million of his own people and Stalin got a crazy idea in his head that if there's a state of Israel since they'll be socialist they'll probably be communist and I like communism better than I like the Brits so I'm going to fund the ammunition of the Jewish people in Israel so that they could knock out the Brits and knock out the Arabs so why do we have erel today why those who are going to go to Seminary next year why is there air yiva is why is there why could we go to why we go to the who do we have to thank for that Stalin the biggest Russia in the last 200 years of course who else who else would R use to bring Yeshua forl is think about it why does Hashem do that why doesn't hasm just keep it simple have the good guy come and just overpower the Russia and win the War why is Hashem always using par using H using a using ferdinan using Stalin to bring says and the because we live in the and in the Goos we live in darkness and is not going to make an open Miracle he's not going to split the sea you're not going to see Mak you're not going to see any Supernatural occurrence so then how do we know incontrovertibly absolutely definitively that it's controlling all the events of history says says watch this I am going to show you in the clearest possible manner because I'm not going to allow you to win through the sadic I'm going to co-opt hijack the Russia and every plan of the Russia and use his plans against him to help you that is the clearest evidence to the Yad Hashem throughout history 1953 Stalin realized that that was not a good idea to help the Jewish people in the Middle East so he changed his mind and he decided Hitler didn't do a good enough job so he's going to eradicate the between two and four million Jews left in Russia so he created trumped up charges against seven doctors he accused them of poisoning Russian children the plan was he already created a railroad system that would take 3 million je from Heartland Russia to trans Siberia the temperatures were 85° below zero where 3 million Jews would die within two weeks of hypothermia this wasn't like a possibility or some people say there is absolute evidence this is a fact historical fact Stalin had everything in place the trial was going to be March 5th 1953 and this second would begin March 6th February 28th chabas 1953 AR PM RIT zilber was in a forced labor camp he tells his fellow inmates you know tonight on aurm if we had a Millo we would read the story about how Hashem saved CLA is 2,000 years ago and there was one Russian yid he said Rabbi what are you telling us this nonsense what happened 2,000 years ago what relevance does it have right now Stalin is strong like an ax the man was like a was like a beasa they thought he would live for 170 he was strung nothing could take him down he has the plan in place the railroads are in place the concentration camps in Kazakhstan are in place what are we going to do what are you telling me stories about fantasy 2,000 years ago says zilber at 7:50 p.m. right before the of millas eser Stalin is a b vam he doesn't even know what will be in 30 minutes I'm going to segue to tell you about another Russian refus next his name is rbl me who was taken away for teaching Tyra and he's put in solitary confinement solitary confinement means you're put in a closet there's no light he didn't know if it was day or night for 2 years he had no one to talk to the only way he knew it was a new day every morning he would got get a piece of bread under the door and a pale of water he said how did you maintain your sanity he said when I decided to teach Tyra barim I knew I could be taken away at any moment so I memorized the entire And I memorized and that's what I did all day in a closet for two years I said to H and I said over M every morning he would wake up he would try to turn the door knob it's locked that morning purm where's my bread no bread no water he pushes open the door's open he walks out thousands of Jewish prisoners walk out what happened that night at 8:23 p.m. 33 minutes after Abit zilber said Stalin doesn't know what will be even in 30 minutes Stalin had a stroke out of the and he was Gravely ill and rber said he had a shot can I die can I DAV in for Stalin to die and he said yes I can he said if anyone is responsible for him knowing uh till and B it's Stalin so exra I did not stop saying to hilum until Stalin died March 5th the day before the second Holocaust was going to take place this is this is not a legend this is historical fact Stalin died stroked the night of Pim 69 years ago from tomorrow night so we say that the miracle of PM when we say it's not wishful thinking ALU is what has happened to CL throughout the says the light of por is so powerful so brilliant it's so magnificent that not even the light of chabas not even the light of yum there's no y the whole year that is comparable to the great light of P May again bring to bring to all of our bring to each and every one of us thank you very much I I think we uh you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com