The Divine Irony of Jewish History - MMH Yarchei Kallah Panama Community Shiur

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com good evening Joseph M mexic r fa for no gracias good evening welcome everyone I I'm I have the honor to welcome ra Daniel gladstein is not for the first time he's been already B Hashem many times and we looking forward for many many many times he's not just been in person but he's been inspiring our community through his classes ER videos and audios and especially his book BS because then you can dep in you can learn in depth his wisdom I want to tell you that we feel proud the Panama is hosting aala we used to be host in Lakewood BMG for many years as well as in the shmir also for russan for many years and H recently we run ER for the last 3 or four years yala in Panama and we have the privilege to have a lot of people from our community and even from in neighbor communities as ER Colombia Venezuela Brazil Mexico and even from New York and Miami H but I it's the first time I want to tell you H it's not a it's not nothing new that you make a lot of news so it's the first time that we we are hosting aala from American people you should be very proud of yourself that you're traveling you're traveling and and your traveling are uh are a good witness of who you are because H to pick up a to pick up uh uh vacation I will say I r Treat but making sure that you have a good to like Ila if you if you hear from the rabbi tin I have two crows here don't get don't get me confused so it's m our honor as a community to know that people can come into Panama and this is a destination not only to have breakfast lunch and dinner in K restaurants but a place that you feel that we can come here and and and Eng gr and learn Tora Torah this is also what's it called make sure that you understand so uh mamash is our our honor I want to I make I want to make a special mention tonight for meaning for the parents and the in-laws of my dear friend R Danel gladston I had the privilege I'm telling you H he's been out there not from yesterday but already for many years and that cannot happen such a young age without being raised in such a house and being hugged by his in-laws as well so okay I I'm not the speaker for tonight I know you want to hear me but he's better okay so I want to introduce my dear friend raniel Glen C [Music] welcome everyone thank you so much for hosting me for having me on behalf of my family my wife my parents my in-laws our whole Community we feel feel very welcome here thank you rebelli for the very warm introduction thank you Rose for the wonderful words I'm here today with your community because of my close friendship with RAB Isaac anabe and his beautiful family I feel very close to Isaac and his wife I had the Merit to be at Isaac made a wedding this past year and we wish Thea many happy and healthy years to to continue the family Legacy I welcome Isaac father RAB Israel they told me I should say welcome you as Lulu yeah and fra welcome tonight we're here to honor the memory of Dora s and what could be a greater commemoration of her memory than to gather together as a community for Tor for inspiration to honor her memory to eternalize her memory we see her beautiful children grandchildren she was a woman who is beloved by the entire Community beloved by her friends everybody adored her she filled her whole family with life with happiness with Sim she filled her children with Sim her grandchildren and we bless this whole beautiful family they should contining her Legacy of happiness and dedication to torat dedication to the community for many happy and healthy years I'm very excited to share with you tonight a very important understanding of migil of course we're holding within 30 days of the great holiday of Purim it's almost the happy day of Purim actually my grandparents who are holocost survivors their birthday was on Purim so it's a very very special holiday to my family and I want to take you to the very end of the Pim story we know that M was written with the Divine Spirit which means that M and EST did not go lie down one day sit at the table pick up a pen and just write a story every word they wrote was divinely inspired God directed their pen to write the storyes with divine inspiration which means every single word that they wrote is Torah so that means we're entitled to ask ourselves about every single detail in M why is this included in the story and if you go to the very end of the story the story ends with very interesting information it tells us that King aash taxed all provinces Al the that taxed 127 provinces his entire Community all of his subjects he taxed the entire world why does MiG end that tax the people who cares that he taxed the people how is this relevant to the puim story you know the pasuk right before says that if you want to know about the history of the times if you want to know about the palace Intrigue if you want to know about the politics you got the wrong book this is the wrong book to read this is not a history book you know melat was not written as a history book if you want to know about the history of Purim then go to the chronicles of Persia and media there you'll read about the rest of the story you'll read about the palace Intrigue and the politics if you want to know why Mig was written it was written for one reason and one reason only to publicize the miracle of God which means that every single T in the Mig was written to recognize and to see the Divine hand of AES why would the Mig end that a taxs the people that is not relevant information so I want to share with you tonight three words of gamar that's all you need to know if you know these three words of the gamar the entire story will be revolutionized forever but let me begin with a little story you ever hear of a man by the name of Moshe Moshe rabeno maybe you heard of him in Panama they know about Moshe rabeno Ken of course mosu gave the Torah to the Jewish people where did mosenu grow up in the house of the Pharaoh in the house of parro how did that develop how did moshu grow up in the house of parro parro got a message one day he got a bulletin he got a memo the memo said that the savior of the Jewish people is going to be born so parro did everything in his power to destroy and eradicate the savior of the Jewish people he issued the following law call any child that is born throw him into the river par said I will never allow the savior of the Jewish people to come and be born and God is looking down he's looking down from heaven and he's laughing parro you think you're going to destroy the savior of the Jewish people not only will you not destroy the savior of the Jewish people watch this parro parro decrees all the Jewish children have to be exterminated a Woman by the name of Y has a baby boy she doesn't know what to do with him she throws him into the Nile River paro's own daughter sees the baby the baby's crying so she sticks out her hand and she brings the baby into the palace that night parro is trying to sleep parro thinks he hear is crying from the Next Room power said what's that Basia what's that oh it's a little baby where' you find him n doesn't matter go back to sleep an hour later the baby's crying the baby's crying basa knocks on parro's door Dad could you do me a favor could you rock the baby to sleep you know it's been a hard day could you rock the baby to sleep so parro's rocking this little baby the very baby that he tried to eradicate unknowingly he's rocking the baby to sleep and then an hour later the baby's hungry and Bas says Dad would you mind going out do they have over here to CVS and get him some formula so parro said who's going to pay for it she says you pay for it put it on your American Express card she says so not only does parro not eradicate the savior of the Jewish people his own daughter Sav the baby brings him into the palace he raised Moshe who's moshe's father who raised Moshe parro who taught Moshe how to walk parro teaches him how to walk who taught him how to talk parro taught him how to talk you know ibra one of the classic commentaries on the Kash asks why did God orchestrate that Moshe should grow up in Pyro's Palace says if MOS rinu would have grown up with the rest of the Jewish people then he would have walked around like this he would have walked around like a slave he would have walked around like a he would not have the Royal bearings he would not be aristocratic he would not have leadership skills so Moshe grew up in parro's Palace so parro could teach him how to be a m how to be a king how to be a leader if not for par there never would have been Moshe some people say if not for parro we never would have had the Torah if MOS would have grown up in bar Park in Panama City we would have no Torah the only reason we have Torah today is because Moser Renu grew up in parro's Palace parro thought he was going to destroy the Jewish leader come come it's good parro thought he was going to destroy the Jewish leader it's good for you you're on out Torah anytime.com okay so parro thought he was going to destroy the Jewish leader not only did he not destroy the Jewish leader he raised the Jewish leader he created the Jewish leader this is a phenomenon that God uses God says I'm not afraid of the enemy I I'm not worried about the enemy you give me the enemy you give me the enemy's tactic you give me the enemy's plan I will hijack that plan and use that plan to backfire against him to bring about blessing for the Jewish people listen carefully what happened Haman is very angry Haman is fuming he's burning Zar his wife says what's the problem Haman says I can't stand that Jew Mori every time I walk through the gate of the king everyone bows down to me except for morai so Zares says to Haman listen here's the plan go to the king tell the king that you're you made a Gallows a Tall Tree 50 Amo tall and you're going to hang morai on the tree in the morning listen very carefully the pasuk says that ham was going to the king to hang m al on the tree that he prepared for him literally that ham prepared for Mor Al on the tree that he prepared low for him for Mor so the gamar is bothered that there's an extra word in the Pas you know if you have a work a regular book you wouldn't necessarily ask you know this word is extra that word is extra because we can't really put too much importance into every single word that an author wrote but when you have a book of Torah and you have one extra word you're entitled to ask why does that word appear why is there an extra word in the pasuk the gamar is troubled why does the pasuk say that ham was hanging M was going to hang Al on the tree that prepared for him it should just say Al on the tree that he prepared the word low is extra there's an extra word in the pasok says the gamar this word is the key to the pum story don't think that ham Was preparing the tree for morai Hamman Was preparing the tree for himself Hamman Was preparing the tree for himself Haman thought he was preparing it for morai he was preparing it for himself this is the entire secret of the Pim story where God says you give me the Russia you give me the plan I'm not afraid of it I'm going to hijack that plan I'm going to co-op that plan and use that plan to bring about blessing for the Jewish people let me give you an example or two okay if you look carefully in the story ham excuse me has a problem with his wife's wife Vash is not listening to him ordered Vash hey Vash we have a big party coming up do me a favor I want you to come out and parade yourself March in front of all the dignitaries of Persia media and vashi said no no you stable boy you're nothing compared to my father my father could drink 50 bottles of wine and hold his alcohol and you're a wimp vashi said no I'm not listening to you so the M tells us something very strange that says I don't know what to do with my wife so he calls the king said to the sages his special advisers his special wise men what should I do with my wife isn't that strange the king of the world the gar tells us that was he ruled over the whole Known World he has a problem with wife everybody knows the ancient Kings they had a problem with their wife the next day there was a new yeah and if that wife gave him a problem then the next day there was another katuna he they didn't go to therapists they didn't go to marriage counselors if a king had a problem with the wife they didn't talk things out they they went on to the next wife the next day so why is calling what to do with his wife you know the Mig itself answers the question the Mig says the law in Persian media it was a very Democratic Society that the king could make any decision on his own until it was relevant to him until it he was no until it was something he had a bias but the moment the king had a decide something that was relevant to him he was not allowed to make a unilateral decision he could not make the decision on his own he had to bring it in front of the Congress of Persia media okay that was the law on Persia so the question is friends you know in the end of the story remember the end of the story where Esther revealed herself to AOS and a doesn't know what to do he's fuming at ham and he went out into the garden to get some fresh air and he comes back into the palace and he sees Haman took a misstep with Esther it looked like Haman was doing something wrong with Esther and there's a guy over there named Kon and remember what Kona said he said look at the window he that's how read it it's good to hear it once in your life okay look that's the Gallows that ham made and what did say the king says hang him hang him hang him and they hung H wait a second how is a allowed to make that decision how is he allowed to take matters into his own hands isn't the law in Persian media that when it's something relevant to The King The King has to bring it to the Congress how could the king just say the answer is you have to know the history of Persia media the law was changed who changed the law a man by the name of MIM when had a problem with Vash and he didn't know what to do the says said vashi is not just sitting against you I want you to change the law in Persia media and the new law says as follows from now on you call all the from now on you don't ask anybody's advice from now on what you decide even when it's relevant to you that is the conclusion who isan ham ham thought that by giving a more power he's going to elevate himself but who do we have to thank that Haman was hanged because said hang him we have ham himself to thank because Haman changed the law that brought about the downfall of Haman had Haman not changed the law he might still be hanging around because he was the one who changed the law now could say hang him here's one more example by the way I want to thank my dear friend Rabbi nsen wler who from from M New York you know there's a country called Panama there's a country called Brooklyn you know that country some people live in the country of Brooklyn there's another country called the five towns and a country called Mani com from M I come from the five towns but we all decided we wanted to join your community before Purim and it's a big it's a big Merit to be here tonight for the Merit of Dora bsar ham was a very smart man if you look in the Miga there's something very confusing in the Miga when Haman sent out letters that the Jews would be eradicated heaven forbid on the 13th day of Nissan there are twoim one pasuk says very interesting the pasuk tells us that ham sent out letters to a iate to annihilate to destroy all the Jews young and old women and children and then the next PUK says the next p says ham sent out letters be ready for the 13th of Nissan what's going to happen the letters didn't say so one PUK says on the 13th day of Nissan the Jews would be eradicated and on a different letter it said what's going to happen on the 13th day of Nissan nothing everyone be prepared for the 13th day of Nissan vagon writes something amazing V goon writes that Haman was a very smart man he sent private letters to the governors to the Mayors to the officers of every city explicitly telling them on the 13th day of Nissan all the Jews would be eradicated but he didn't want the message to get out to the Jewish Community because if we would have found out that on the 13th day of Nissan we would have been eradicated you know what we would have done we would have done what we do best we would have gone to the governors we would have handed them an envelope and we would have bribed them and that would be the end of the gazer so Hamman made sure that we should not find out what what happened on the 13th day of Nissan in fact the big posters that that were plastered on all the city walls said on the 13th day of Nissan be ready be ready you know in uh Los Angeles there's a story there was once a billboard the billboard said 100 days and then the next day it said 99 days and then it said 98 days what's going to be at the end nobody knew so that's what Haman did hamon just put up Billboards get ready for the 13th day of Nissan what's going to be I don't know yala Panama Lakewood Lakewood Panama I don't know what's going to be on that day ham didn't want us to know what would happen otherwise we could have done something to prevent it he told the governors he told the Mayors he told the officials but he didn't tell the community and that backfired on him because when M and estar come to aash and say you know your queen is Jewish you need to resend the Gaz need to take back the Gaz and says I would love to this is a terrible Gaz but you know the law in Persia is that any decree that I sign on you can't take back I can't take back so I'm sorry I already signed the decree to annihilate the Jewish people they said no you made a mistake the document never said what's going to happen on the 13th day of of Nissan it never said that theim annihilate the Jewish people it just said Beware of the 13th so let's just edit it a little bit that instead of the enemies of the Jewish people destroying us we get back at them and that's what happened okay friends fasten your seat bels you know it's very important to fasten your seat belts these days you saw what the plane that in Toronto the plane landed on the ice it flipped over so you got to be wearing your seat bels everybody's buckled in you ready the story of Pim the story of melat begins with a big party who's making the party anybody remember what he was celebrating the nvi Jeremiah the nvi yahu prophecied that in 70 years after the Jewish people are exiled they're going to return to the Holy Land and rebuild the bet mikdash the 70 years were up and the BET mikdash had not been built said theik is not rebuilt it will never be rebuilt so took out all the Kim all the vessels of the temple and he celebrated what he thought would be the Eternal destruction of the betam mikdash many years later the Jewish people are returning to the Holy Land they're returning to AR Israel they're broken they're impoverished they want to rebuild the Temple they don't have the resources to rebuild the Temple so they turned to the king does anybody remember who the King of Persia was at the time Darius the son of dares and they say Darius could you help us rebuild the Temple and Darius says what do you want from me this is your temple this is not my temple so Jewish people say help us out we can't afford it we don't have money for the bricks we don't have money for the wood we don't have money for the animals for carote so Darius said make a charity campaign you know they said that wasn't invented yet there no there no campaigns so the pasuk says inra that as that Darius opened up the storehouses of taxes and he opened up the treasury and he gave all the money from the treasury to the Jewish people to rebuild the second B mikdash and I ask you dear friends where did Darius get all this tax money from to help the Jewish people rebuild theik he got it from he got it from the taxes that collected at the end of M collected all the taxes from all the far-flung communities he took taxes from North Korea from Iran from Russia he put it into his bank account and he emptied it out to give it to the Jewish people to rebuild the second temple now I know why the puim story ends that aash taxed the people aash thought he was collecting taxes for his own bank account turns out a was collecting taxes to help the Jewish people rebuild the second bet mikdash but friends the puim story has come full circle listen carefully because the Story begins that a is having a party to celebrate the Eternal destruction of the second bet mikdash the that the temple will never be rebuilt and by the time the story is over aash has become the chief fundraiser to rebuild the second B mikdash moreover if you ask him hey pal what are you celebrating at this party oh what I'm celebrating I'm celebrating the bdash will never be rebuilt and God is laughing you're celebrating the bet mikdash it will never be rebuilt this very party you're gonna call vashi she's not gonna come you're GNA get angry at her you're gonna kill her you're gonna marry Esther you're going to have a kid Darius who's going to take away all your money and build the second B mikdash you think this party is celebrating the destruction of the bet mikdash this party is the first parlor meeting to build the betam mikdash thank you in New York they just look at me they stare at me they don't make any here they show emotion they like the Shure they they enjoy it that's how you have to listen to a make that noise again one more time thank you you know Torah Torah is happiness Torah is not information it's not the telephone book I didn't come here today to tell you information the Torah is your life when you hear Torah that's why you have to wear a seat belt otherwise you're going to hit the ceiling this is this is the way that runs the world Hashem says I'm not afraid of any enemy I'm not afraid of any son I'm not afraid of any o you give me the enemy I'll use his plan I'll use his evil machination to bring about blessing to the Jewish people let me give you a few examples you ever hear of Lakewood yiva anybody know who built Lakewood Yeshiva raron Cutler you that's what you thought you thought raron Cutler built Lakeisha I'm going to tell you who really built Lakeisha King ferdinan and Queen Isabella yeah you didn't know that you thought it was a Lithuanian Rabbi in the 1940s no no no it goes way back you see Ferdinand and Isabella were trying to conquer the entire Iberian Peninsula they had conquered most of Spain they had conquered most of Portugal and there was one area left until they were able to accomplish something called Rec conquesta Conquering the entire Iberian Peninsula Peninsula Granada if they could only conquer Granada the entire Iberian Peninsula would be under Spanish control and finally they waged the Great War of Granada and Granada fell and now Ferdinand and Isabella they want to thank their God how can they celebrate the conquest of Granada I'm not available right now I'm middle of the sh okay how could they celebrate the conquest of Granada so they said they're going to show appreciation to their God by forcibly converting and baptizing all those wretched Jews who don't believe in the true Faith so they went about they created the Spanish Inquisition and they gave a date August 2nd TI that all the Jews have to be either converted or expelled from Spain they didn't know that the date that they set August 2nd Thursday was Tish they didn't even know it was tshav Heaven directed them to make the decree to fall out on tshav we have a document in the museum in Seville about a boy who is being expelled the day day of Tish and he writes parked in the harbor in Spain where three boats the Nina the Pinta Santa Maria led by Christopher Columbus that set sail the very next day after tshav to discover America which would be the greatest Haven for the Jewish people in our history you see Ferdinand and Isabella they thought the Jewish people would never have a Homeland they would never have a Haven they would never build yot there would never be schools there would never be Jewish families God laughs at them Ferdinand and Isabella you think you're going to destroy the great Haven of Spain for the Jewish people not only will you not destroy the Haven of Spain for the Jewish people who commissioned Christopher Columbus who paid for his voyage who paid for his expedition who's responsible for the United States of America for Lakewood Yeshiva Ferdinand and Isabella if not for them there would be no Torah in America today Tora the biggest supporters of Lakewood you know there would be no Panama Lakewood yala if not for Ferdinand and Isabella I wouldn't have gone to Isaac brought me to his place in Santa Clara there would be no Panama yala thanks to Ferdinand and Isabella there's Torah in America they paid for it it they paid for the discovery of the United States of America let's fast forward to the 20th century the Jewish people were fighting for their survival in the war of independence they were losing the war they didn't have weapons they didn't have ammunition there was no way that they could overcome enemies surrounding them on all sides overcoming the British now let me just give you a little bit of a picture does anybody know in the last 200 years who is the greatest enemy of the Jewish people who was the most brutal dictator for the Jewish people the last 200 years who would you say many people would say oh it's got to be Hitler Hitler killed 6 million I'm going to tell you a name of somebody who's actually responsible for the death of more people even than Hitler Hitler only killed 6 million Stalin killed 20 million people 20 million people you know that in the 19th century Russia had a plan to exterminate all of its Jews with the following three-step plan they were going to exterminate a third they were going to convert a thir third and they're going to expel a third that's why already at the end of the 19th century millions and millions of Jews had left Russia Stalin was the most brutal slaughterer of of human beings of Jews in the history of the world but in 1948 God put a crazy idea in Stalin's head Stalin said I don't like Jews but I don't like democ atic Society even worse I don't want the Brits in Palestine I don't want England in Palestine so does anybody know who funded the war of independence does anybody know who supplied Israel with the ammunition to win the war of independence Stalin and when there was an issue whether the state of Israel should be voted and approved of who was among the first to ratify the state of Israel Stalin if you want to know why there's a with 8,000 Stalin if you want to know why there's Tora in the state of Israel today Stalin if you want to know why you at you could go toal God says I don't need good guys I don't need good guys you give me you give me the their wicked plans I will use them as puppets I will pull the strings and accomplish whatever I need to but in 1953 Stalin made a turn Stalin switched February 28th 1953 Stalin convicted six doctors of medical malpractice of injecting Russian children with a disease he fabricated a story he convicted these doctors the plan was he was going to execute these doctors and then exterminate between 2 to 4 million Jews who are left in Russia you know about this the decree went out on February 28th it was going to be carried out on March 5th shortly after purm now many people think the Germans were the ones who invented systematic ways of killing Jewish people you know we always had anti-semites we always had people who try to persecute us but the idea of systematic and a systematic approach of killing Jews you know who invented this method Stalin Stalin built railroad tracks throughout Russia that were going to take between two and 4 million Jews to Siberia by the way it's very cold in Siberia you here in Panama don't even know what the word cold means we don't you don't know what cold means you know what even the air conditioning they make it like room temperature in Russia you know how cold it was in Siberia between 75 and 95° okay the plan was after these doctors were convicted of medical malpractice Stalin was going to round up all the Jews left in Russia he was going to transport them to Northern Siberia and just keep them there for 2 weeks where they would just die of cold of hypothermia this decree was set into motion February 28th it was going to be carried out shortly after puim March 5th 1953 that year puim fell out Saturday night M Shabbat one of the famous Russian refuseniks was somebody by the name of Rabbi Yak silver silver and and they were in these Barracks they were in these camps and rabak Sil turns to some of the members of the camp and he said you know tonight is puim we're going to read the story of M and EST and the miraculous salvation of the Jewish people and just like God saved our people in the times of puim God could save us in our times from Stalin as well and there was somebody in the camp a young man he said Rabbi be quiet already with such nonsense you telling me story that happened 2500 years ago with a guy hmon he was a wimp compared to Stalin Stalin was 73 years old he was strong like an ax he never saw a doctor in his life when Stalin said something it was done immediately what are you telling me about ham and puim that has nothing to do with us st's going to eradicate all the Jews of Russia and it was 7:50 p.m. Saturday night Purim Sil said listen Stalin is B he's a human being a human being doesn't even know what could happen in the next 30 minutes at 8:23 33 minutes later the ox Stalin stroked out Stalin had a stroke and the News started to spread all over Russia stal had a stroke stal had a stroke and Sil said you know he never really knew to Hill him all of a sudden miraculously he remembered the entire toim B by heart and he started rattling off to H to to that Stalin should die Stalin should die Stalin should die and the guards who were guarding all of Stalin's jails they they found out the news that Stalin had stroked out they just opened up the doors of the jails tens of thousands of Jews just walked out of the jails when puim puim 1953 72 years ago on puim so we talk about the miracle of we say that it happened in those days at this time we have to know that as the month of Adar comes and when the day of puim comes it's not a one-time Miracle great spiritual influence comes down from heaven to bring blessing and salvation to the Jewish people every single year on that calendar date puim and great Miracles happened then for the Jewish people and the decree was nullified and it never happened and the railroads were never used and the trains were never used and the barracks were never used it was friends who could have ever imagined that in our times we would experience what we saw on October 7th we all said never again we would never see something like that look we have a long way to go and it's a very tenuous situation but take a step back and look at what has resulted because of October 7th look what happened to Syria fell Lebanon is weakened Iran's defenses are down what caused this whole chain reac action in the Middle East that Israel in a way is more solidified and strengthened more than 70 years they have never been in such a strategic position what caused it who's responsible for it what event brought this about October 7th our enemies our enemies strengthened us stronger than we've ever been this is the principle of how Hashem runs the world Al H thought he was preparing The Gallows for M he was preparing The Gallows for himself and we always have to take a step back and when we think about and every generation they stand up against us God will take all of our enemies and we have to give Hashem more credit than he deserves Hashem doesn't need us to have our man in power Hashem says you give me the enemy you give me his plan and I will use his plan to bring about blessing happiness protection and success for the Jewish people may we all see in our times great yes for the Jewish people in the Merit of our coming together this evening it should be for for her whole family for her children her grandchildren for her great grandchildren for for and we show to see speedily in our times the great message of elohi and Miau to Panama City to M New York to the five towns you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com