The Purim Story for Kids

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning everyone I'm very excited to be here this morning first I uh landsman who um I do not know personally but I can say that I had the opportunity to teach in an extracurricular program here in nycq for something called yeshivas and on a number of occasions I observed Rabbi landsman the way he speaks to the boys in the Yeshiva how he gets their attention I've been around I've seen many principles and it really left an impression on me how he speaks to every child with the utmost respect and really commands the the respect of the students and that was something that uh I very much admired you know often you'll see people snapping or raising their voice and I really appreciated how Rabbi landsman speaks to the students of the sushiva someone who uh inform you of the great gifts that you have here in uh Yeshiva of central Queens I also want to thank Rabbi Bernstein for inviting me this morning um in the short time that I've gotten to know Rabbi Bernstein I am really tremendously impressed with him as a person as a Thomas and those of you who have him as a rebbe you are quite lucky just in the short time that I know him he's been very very kind to me personally so I'm very excited to be here I see a lot of very friendly familiar faces uh kamat I know almost everybody over here almost all the parents so with that introduction let us begin we know that the story of Purim Magilla sister is not a historical story it's not a historical document in fact if you want to know the details the historical details of the Purim story do not look in magillas and the Magilla itself tells us that if you want to know all the historical details you need to look in the chronicles of Persian media because the plastic says if you want to know the historical episode do not look in miguelas Esther is not a historical account it is only giving you that information that you need to know to appreciate the miracle so for instance if you look at the very first plastic in the Magilla it says ruled over 127 countries 127 medinos who cares doesn't matter to us if he ruled over 127 or 125 or 130 why do we need to know he ruled over 127 so quite interestingly we know that gamara tells us ruled over the whole world everywhere every known country which means that the decree of Haman was not on some Jews or many Jews but on all the Jews every single Jewish life was in danger ah the McGillis starts off by telling me that ruled over the whole world if he ruled over the whole world every Jew was in danger if every Jew is in danger don't worry we're gonna pull through because God gave us a half taka God gives us a promise the Jewish people will never be destroyed so the very first positive Magilla is already telling us don't worry the end of the story there'll be a happy ending in other words the McGill is not giving you historical information has ruled over the world it's explaining to you a detail necessary to appreciate the miracle so I want to look for a moment in Esther parrot Bays plus xine you have a source sheets over here please take a look at number one it talks about Hadassah we know Esther her name was Esther two times in the Magilla she's referred to as hadassahadasa Mordechai raised Hadassah who is that is Esther you know people think Esther was mordechai's nice does not say that in the Magilla anywhere that may be true that may not be true all we know about Esther is she's Mordecai's first cousin that's what the Magilla says he bastard she has no father she has no mother why is the Magilla telling me that Esther has no father Esther has no mother do I need to know that is that an important detail does that have anything to do with the Purim story does that come up anywhere in the story we don't know about Mordecai's father and mother we don't know he did it have a father he didn't have a mother we don't know about Haman did Haman have a father mother did zaresh have a father or mother we don't know and when it comes to Esther the Magilla feels that it's important to let us know she had no father she had no mother why is this critical information the pasta continues she was a very beautiful woman when her father and mother died Mordecai took her as a daughter or the gemara says as a wife asked the following question the beginning of the Posse already said she had no father she had no mother why would the plastic have to end and when her father and mother died obviously if she had no father and she had no mother then this is taking place after her father died after her mother died it's repetitious and it's Superfluous it already said in love I am she has no father she has no mother why repeat and when her father and mother died they obviously are not alive it already said she has no father she has no mother you know what the Posse is adding that not only did Esther have no father or mother she never saw her father she never saw her mother says the gamara Magilla on your gimla and aleph take a look on number two she has no father she has no mother so why do I need to say when her father and mother died when her mother became pregnant with her her father died and when her mother gave birth to her her mother died what a sad story what a heartbreaking story Not only was she an orphan girl not only did she have no father and have no mother she never saw her father because her father died when her mother became pregnant and her mother died in childbirth again we could ask is this important information to know does it really matter to the story is it critical to the storyline that Esther never saw her father Esther never saw her mother who cares she did she didn't she used to visit her father used to visit her mother she didn't know what difference does it make we don't know anything about mordechai's story we don't know anything about Haman you know did Haman go with his father to the amaleki Sunday morning learning program we don't know about that you know did zaresh used to go shopping with her mother I don't know did zarus go with her mother to the Sunday morning program we don't know we don't know anything about zarish's parents we don't know anything about hormones parents we don't know anything about Mordecai's parents and we don't need to it has nothing to do with the story and when it comes to Esther not only is the mcgilla telling me she had no father and she had no mother according to where the gemara reads Apostle the McGill was telling me she never saw her father she never saw her mother the murderous takes it a step further if you look at number three and number four this is a matter that appears in Esther rabba and in a caraba the murder says that if you remember there's a Magilla called nagilas the Jewish people cry out yes we are orphans we have no father so God says you have no father I swear God says that the Redeemer the one who redeemed you in Persia is there she will have no she will have no mother in other words not only will Esther not have a father and mother not only will she never see her father and mother God is swearing that the only one who could redeem the Jewish people in the times of Purim is an individual who has no father and has no mother in other words this is critical if we were to have a big Sadiq or a big sadakas who would be on the highest level of righteousness if they would have a father or a mother they would be disqualified from Redeeming the Jewish people the only person eligible to save the Jewish people is someone with no father no mother why you would think just the opposite you would think that if you want to be the Redeemer of the Jewish people you need to have a father and mother you have to have a messiah you have to have a tradition you have to have the link going back to harcina you need to have a father mother and yet for some odd reason for some strange reason God is swearing the only one who can redeem the Jewish people in times of Purim an orphan who never saw their father and mother this question is raised by a great God by the name of raviones was one of the greatest of the aquarium one of the greatest in the end of the beginning of the 17th century actually the end of the 17th century the beginning of the 18th century the honest and ivishits lived from 1690 to 1764. if you were a rabbi in the 18th century you already was ravianas and Ivy he was the preeminent rashishiva of the 18th century I would say perhaps 80 or 90 percent of all the rabbanim in the 18th century were students of ravianas and ivishits he was a Russia Shiva for 50 years even by the accounts if you ever read some of the accounts of his detractors even by their accounts he had over 24 000 students throughout his career all of his students took notes and nearly every great library in the world has notes from the students of reviews be honest in ibiscuits was a great talmudist he was a great kabbalist he was a great hallakist you name it he had it mastered you would expect he wrote a name to use from sparm he wrote the crazy who placing the urine between he wrote somewhat between 30 and 40's Farm if you have you know an extra hundred thousand dollars on you or in your bank account and you have nothing to do with it you go to Oxford University or you go to the university or libraries in St Petersburg there are manuscripts of capitalistic treatises that ravionis and Iverson wrote that are still remain unpublished so if you go to any of the great libraries in the world you have manuscripts from Rihanna's and ibiscuits and he asked this question he wants to know number one why is the Magilla telling me Esther had no father or mother number two why is it important that he never she never saw her father and mother and number three why is God swearing that the only one who could redeem the Jewish people is someone who has no father or mother let's talk a little bit about Mordecai let's talk a little bit about Mordechai the posix says about Mordecai look at number six there was an issue in shushan the capital the public begins Mordecai was an issue which simply means he came from the plastic ends he was ishimini which means he was from Yamin and the question is you can't be from Tucson either one or the other says the gamara myself take a look at number seven you base them in base Hua Ben Levy of evening the Imam his father came from his mother came from shaved Yehuda so when we say ishi that was his mother's tribe when we say ishyamini that was his father's tribe as rebionis and ibishes wait a second did you ever learn Tana did you know is anybody Miss yajes is anybody's lineage given by the shaven of their mother do you know that nowhere in the hotel does it ever say their father was from the shaven and their mother was from that shaveth nowhere you know why because we know what makes the Jew the mother but what determines the shavet father so it is of no halachic relevance what the shaven of the mother is you know you ever call someone up to nalia and if I had him here yeah yeah okay but my mother's from shaving Usher that's beautiful emotions but when it comes to an Aliyah we go after the father you ever called the olavians yeah but my mother's thumbs the full one great that's why you're a Jew the most important thing goes after the mother the mother determines the religion but the father determines the shaveth be it for inheritance be it for Aliyah nowhere in the whole Tanakh does it ever say his father was from this shape and his mother was from the shaven why Mordechai does it say Mordechai his mother was from and his father was from Yamin and even more perplexing it gives the name of his mother shave at first why how do we understand that another question throughout Madras throughout midrashic literature there is a principle that repeats itself over and over and over again and that is if you want to destroy asaph if you want to destroy a Malik you have to be a descendant of Rachel emano we have a tradition that ain't Ace of knife line ASA will not fall hello mainu in other words if you want to be the antithesis the antidote the Kryptonite of amole right that got you if you want to be the the antithesis of asav you have to come from why do you have to come from and if your name is and you take your sword and you chop off Aesop's head his head is not going to fall off his head will fall off even though you don't come from what does the medrish mean if you look at number nine foreign another question you know the end of the poem story seems like Purim story is not complete until the Jewish people accomplish the following okay look at number 10 for a moment what does that means anybody know Robin there are many people from the people from the Gentiles they converted in other words look the the perm story has come from Full Circle we have complete celebration why now we have garim like that's a cherry on top we're happy about that it's wonderful if people want to convert we'll accept them but generally speaking we try to discourage people from converting it's not considered right the gemara tells us that gay Rim are not something that we pursue not something we look for not something we try to bring in if they come on their own wonderful but why is it important for the Purim Magilla to tell me that you know what not only were we not killed and murdered and annihilated and eradicated but we even have garim like that add something that's important is that a good thing is that important to the poem story and finally one last question there was a man by the name of Rabbi Akiva Ravi Akiva was once giving a drasha and we you know you know the more things change the more they stay the same was giving a drasha and the students were dozing off huh so ready knows the students are dozing off you got to pull out your best merchandise you tell them a story you can make a joke right something you're you know the best thing you ever heard I should make a joke now I don't have any good jokes you know when I started out as a rabbi so I you know I knew that if you want to give a good Russia you have to uh you have to tell a good joke so I called up my father and I and I said over the joke to him he says Donnie stick to the diva Tyra but anyway the the rubikiva is trying to wake up his tummy then and he says hmm you see some of them are dozing off it was getting a little warm in the room it was a late night maybe they changed the clock the night before and they began to doze off so we give us this guess what you know I asked the rule over 127 Medina's in the Merit of Sarah yemenu who lived 127 righteous years now I don't know about you but if I was sitting in a classroom and my Webby told me that I would be out cold what yeah right what is so interesting about the fact that Esther ruled over 127 provinces hey oh wow that is really unbelievable that really gets me going that would knock me out for a good hour uh-huh well why did Esther rule over 127 years in the Merit of Sarah emmanu how did that wake up the students says with Jonas and ibischitz you have to take a look at a gamara says there was once a great soundic by the name of Rabbi hanino Banda Arabic had an equally righteous wife the problem was they did not make too much money in fact do you know what they ate you know what they ate the whole week a little carob now I personally do not know anyone who was ever able to eat a carrot eating a carrot is like eating your dining room table how could anybody eat a carrot and yeah subsided the whole week on a carrot half for him half for his wife and finally his wife said you know I can't take it anymore this you know that Sadiq business is not working out for us so he said what do you want me to do go become an accountant now what should I do so she said you know you're at Sadiq pray so he prays he goes into the corner of the room he prays all of a sudden a hand comes down from heaven and presents him with a golden leg he says you're happy now you know go buy another pair of shoes he has a dream in his dream he sees that all that are eating on a three-legged table and he is eating on a two-legged table he tells his wife look what happened now now that God gave me this golden leg everyone in the world is eating on a three-legged table and out of my bow am I gonna be hearing about this for thousands and thousands and thousands of years about the fact that we only have two legs she said I don't like that so he said what do you want me to do now she said well you dive in for Hashem to give you the leg why don't you dive into Hashem to take it back he prays the hand comes down from heaven removes the leg says the gemara the second miracle that the hand took the leg back was greater than the first miracle you know why because our tradition is God giveth God does not taketh away God only gives God doesn't take again asked if you understand is that true that God gives and God doesn't take at every funeral unfortunately Lo alaino we end off Hashem nassan God giveth God taketh away God doesn't just give sometimes he takes so what does the Kamara mean that we have a tradition God only gives he doesn't take that's not true that's not the case and what does it mean that everyone was eating on a three-legged table and they were eating on a two-legged table why are the tables in the world to come why do they have three legs and what leg were they missing there are three pillars of every Jew's service of God learning Torah acts of kindness Fila prayer moment the world stands on three things Torah avoda learning Torah sincere prayer and acts of kindness why do you think he divant for money you don't think he was happy eating his carob I guarantee you he was happier than we are eating what we eat had the carrot diet down path he got used to it after the fifth week of eating the carrots you know he strengthened his uh his mouth muscles his teeth got used to it vendors really enjoyed his carrots why did he need the money says you know why he needed the money you know why his wife needed the money because his wife sees the man is learning Torah all that like he has the man prays like nobody else that he has but every time a poor man knocks on his door Rabbi could you give me 20 bucks I don't have any food Rabbi I have to marry off my daughter when a Yeshiva comes calling Rabbi you know we have to pay our teachers we have to pay our Aveo when organizations call him he cannot participate in acts of kindness he doesn't have the means so while his wife saw they were going to have the leg of Torah they're going to have the leg of tefila unfortunately God did not give them the circumstances to do acts of kindness so she said I can't take it anymore I don't want to come up to the world to come lacking and missing please God give us money to be able to give to the poor but they made a very big mistake what mistake do they make so I'd ask most people what's greater doing a mitzvah or not doing them say what kind of question is that of course it's yeah that sounds ridiculous say it a little differently what's better doing a mitzvah or not being able to do a Mitzvah wishing you could have so we may have said of course it's better to actually do a Mitzvah than to be limited by circumstance and not be able to do the Mitzvah wishing you could have but you know the gemara tells us he's shaved lasso Smith if a person would like to do a mitzvah venenas and circumstances do not allow them in the eyes of God Almighty he considers it as if you did the mitzvah says you can have two people one guy you know the poor man comes let's see you're the wealthiest guy in the world the most generous guy in the world how much money are you going to give them ready imagine someone comes to you I'm so sorry I have no money I'm down in my luck I gotta marry off my daughter the wedding is going to cost a hundred thousand dollars even the wealthiest guy in the world what are you gonna give him already fifty thousand ten thousand you and you can take care of every single poor man in the world and after a while you may get a little irritated and you may not do the Mitzvah perfectly and you may not do the Mitzvah add of love of God and the Mitzvah is going to be limited by human shortcomings any time a human being does a Mitzvah you can never do a perfect Mithra because we're only flesh and blood something's going to be lacking in the manner that we do the Mitzvah something's going to be lacking in the feeling and the emotion in the Hashem but if you wish you could have done a mitzvah and circumstances don't allow you and God considers it as if you did the mitzvah what kind of Mitzvah do you think God will give you he'll give you a perfect Mitzvah the way God knows how to create he'll give you a mix of perfect sadaka perfect was making a big mistake he thought the fact he couldn't give sadaka that somehow was limiting his Mitzvah that was mitigating his Mitzvah that was diminishing his mitzvah well in fact what God was telling him was if you wish you could have done it and you yearned to do it and you desire to do it then I will consider it as if you did it in the perfect sense thought he's going to come up to heaven missing the third leg missing the leg of kindness he had the leg of Torah he had the leg of prayer he thought he was going to be missing the leg of kindness because he never gave sadaka God was telling him if I give you money now and you actually do has said you're going to be missing because if you actually let's say how many people could you feed already you know let it says to sick Jews so he goes to the hospital and he makes his rounds so how many Jews is he going to be able to visit so in one day he goes to One hospital he goes through all the floors 32s 40 Jews 50 Jews you can't visit every sixth year in the world but if a person has a desire let's say a person has a feeling and a yearning you know what I wish I could go to every holiday Israel and visit him and bring him encouragement and bring him medicine if a person has that sincere desire God will consider it as if you actually did it in the most perfect way Mendoza thought that by getting money he's going to be able to do more has said in fact it was just the opposite by now having money now his actions of hasid were limited by human shortcomings I read a story the author of the same question was written by from Arya Cohen wrote three's Farm chef schmeitza Avenue these Forum are considered the highest level of talmudic analysis by the way you know how we wrote them he was so poor his house was so cold he wrote his books with his Inkwell hidden under his arm because otherwise The Inkwell would freeze these three Farm are considered the Paragon of talmudic analysis and they once asked him rabbi how did you Merit that yours forum are widespread in all four corners of the world he said let me tell you what Mitzvah did three times in Yom Kippur I was so ill I had to eat and in the Merit of my eating on Yom Kippur three times God rewarded me that I wrote three books that are perhaps more widespread on talmud than any other three books say what you're not allowed to eat on Yom Kippur I said yeah but I had so much sour and pain that I had to eat on Yom Kippur that was the three greatest Mitzvahs I've ever done in my life I understand but that was enough era you're not allowed to eat on your Kippur so you don't understand all the years I fasted on your Kippur no one could fast perfectly I mean even the biggest static in the in the world he's looking at his watch okay 10 more hours nine more hours eight more hours is he is he fulfilling the fast in the most perfect way no one could do a perfect Mitzvah but when he was violating the Mitzvah wishing he could have fulfilled the Mitzvah God reckons it God considers it as if he fulfilled the midst run to perfect sense three times in his life he fasted on him Kippur perfectly when when he ate on you foreign there's a man walks into the room right he walks in Haman was successful in making a decree to destroy the Jewish people to make such a decree you need to have backing in heaven you need to have Merit you need to have as a close what's the closest have oh come on he had the Merit of his great ancestor Asa right Haman was uh the descendant of Asa remember when Jaco diamonds says come on come on comes to Mesa so you say what Mera did ASAP have ah there's one Mitzvah that asaph did yes excellent very good okay what's your name Matthew Matthew got it on the ball keep it up Aesop excelled in keeping of aim more than anybody else you know the matter says there is a great Sabbath by the name of Schumann gamlia who was the Nasi Israel he was the prince of Israel and he was the most proficient in the midst of cupid of aim by the way well that's around the topic of keep it up aim and everybody knows your father and mother asked you for a drink you bring them a drink they ask you for something to eat you bring them something to eat they ask you for their shoes you bring them their shoes but did you know that the real midst of keep it of aim is that the Mitzvah of keep it of aim is to think of your father and mother like a king or a queen like the most important person in the world even if nobody else thinks that the Mitzvah that God wants God wants us to think of our parents like a melach and amaleka that's the Mitzvah once you think of them that way of course you won't contradict them you know you're not even allowed to agree with your parents let's say your parents says I think we should do this and you say yeah I agree you're not agree who are you to agree they don't need your agreement they stand on their own it's important to remember that right even adults to our own parents keep it up aim is not an easy Mitzvah to fulfill it's a difficult mixer to fulfill in fact and I'm afraid to say it but this is what the gemara tells us and we can't hide the truth made a statement and you have to understand what he means that Kevin of aim is such a difficult mitzvah that fortunate as a person and I say this with trepidation fortunate as a person who never saw their parents we'll have to explain what that means but what he's trying to say is it's a very difficult missile to fulfill it's not easy you don't necessarily want what your parent wants you may not necessarily it may not be easy for you to fulfill their desires but that's a challenge that's one of the challenges Hammond comes to the scene with the midst of kibraim in fact if shimingham Leo says that I don't stand a candle I don't come to the toenails of Haman in the midst of them you know why because Haman excuse me to asaph in because when ASA would honor his father and mother he would wear a special clothing Aesop would put on a tuxedo he would wear a top hat maybe he would put on special clothing yes Abba yes Daddy what could I get for you and I was singam Leo I don't change my clothing to serve my father says even I the God al-hadar do not stand the candle I don't come close to the keeper of aim of ASAP so here hamon comes into the room and guess what Mitzvah is backing him up keep it up aim and how we gonna match that how are we gonna stand up to come on no one ever honored their father and mother like hamon's grandfather did says God here's the trick Esther's gonna do it Esther she doesn't have a father and mother exactly she grew up without a father a mother not only that she never saw her father she never saw her mother so her whole life she was always watching her friends honor their father and mother and guess what Esther was thinking I I wish I could honor my father I wish I could honor my mother if only she yearned she desired she pined she only pleased God I wish I had the opportunity to do this Mitzvah oh you wish you could now I will consider it as if you fulfilled the Mitzvah of aim in the most beautiful perfect way so while yes hamon is backed by Aesop's Merit ASA fulfilled keep it up aim in the greatest way there's only one person who could match up tesav and that is someone who couldn't fulfill Canada someone who is limited by circumstance and because she desired because she pined to fulfill himself Hashem considers it as if she did in the most beautiful perfect way let's just wrap up some of the Loose Ends and we'll come up come down to the punchline foreign nobody can match me so you say oh yeah you honor your father mother so much if you really loved your father so much why would you try to kill yaakov don't you know if you kill your brother your father's probably gonna be very very upset so if you really care about your father why would you kill your brother or try to kill your brother so you know what Aesop says you're pointing at me I'll point right back at you you also try to kill your brother you're safe so don't try to find fault for Honor for my father because you have the same shortcoming comes a man comes the descendants of Rachel and say look we were not involved in the sale of Yosef we had nothing to do with that so we could point at you and say your keeper of aim is lacking and you can't talk back to not to us the descendants of Rachel are the only ones who could stand up to asaph because we could tell Asaf there is a shortcoming incube of aim you didn't care about your brother and while to the rest of the Jewish people you could say oh you didn't care about your brother either but not to the descendants of Rafael one last point and that is AB has one more one more math you know what the Merit is from his mother's side what Merit does ace of have from his mother's side there's a Woman by the name of timna timna came to avraham she said Abram marry me avram said you know adios Amigo get lost marry me go jump in the lake she goes to yaakov marry me go fly a kite Tim this is what am I supposed to do I want to attach myself to this Holy Family she goes to Ace of son alifaz says marry me sure they get married who do they produce I'm Malik why because this woman had the real Earnest sincere desire to attach to the Jewish people so here hamon comes to the scene from his father's side he's bolstered by Kim from his mother's side he's bolstered by the Merit that his great-grandmother wanted to attach herself to the Jewish people so you know what Mordechai has to do Mordecai says on my father's side I'm from Yamin Benjamin has perfect keeping of aim he was not involved in the material from his father's side he's from shaded Yehuda Yehuda always converted garim Yehuda converted shua and Tamar Boaz converted Russ Yehuda specialized in converting garam that is why you know it's very interesting you know when the guards knock on uh on Mordecai's doors where's that girl that lives in your house where did she go so why didn't Mordechai you know he had advanced warning that they're coming why did Mordecai say Esther they're after you go run away to America go to Cuban Hills and register in ycq and then they'll never find you why didn't Mordechai tell Esther you know go hide somewhere why would he keep her in the house so that they should knock on the door and find her says of Jonas and ibischitz because Mordechai knew to counteract hamon you need to bring in garam to Kalisa because that was the human head so he said Esther look and under normal circumstances don't try this at home we can't do this but I'm gonna allow you to be taken You're Gonna Go marry Akash Pharos and this way we'll be able to convert morgarem and in fact at the end of the prom story many many people converted to counteract the Merit of Haman so on the one hand hormone comes into the room bolstered by keeping of aim who's gonna match it Esther but Esther never honored her father and mother she did better she wished she could have Haman on his father's side has the Merit of asab Mordechai and his father's side has the Merit of being from Yehuda from his father says who has the keep it of the aim of not being involved and from his mother's side Mordechai comes from Yehuda who accepted garim to counteract the Merit of Haman who comes from his mother's side from timna but let's for a moment speak about this principle I could give more to more so that her head I could learn more no just the opposite when a person is limited by circumstance when a person is mitigated by circumstance it gives you a greater opportunity to achieve in this world because if you really desire if you really yearn God considers it as if you did it right when I was a kid they had a slogan want to be like Mike right want to be like me if somebody you know put up a picture of a big Sonic or a big God obby's yourself and he said look I'm just a little kid you know I learned an hour a day but I would love to know the entire shots can I do it right now maybe not if you really desire if you really yearn for it if you really Pine for it in the eyes of God you've done it you've achieved it because if a person wants to do a Mitzvah and he's limited by circumstance Hashem considers it as if he did it in the most perfect way you know when a person dovins and they say if you lose if you have the sincere desire I wish I could go to you shalam build it up build the base bring carbonos you know after 120 a person could go up to shemaim and God will say hey I am now going to reward you for building the city of Jerusalem say me I never even went there no but you wanted to you desire to you wished you could have put it in the bank you wish you could be a big town put it in the bank what we're learning is that we're all familiar with asea performance but you have to know there's an entire career in your life in your heart and that is never stop yearning never stop Desiring to be greater to be better to accomplish more and you know what if you really desire if you really earn Hashem will take you there Hashem will bring you there and let's not forget that the Mitzvah that saved the Jewish people in the times of Purim was the Mitzvah of aim it's very interesting one I'm going to conclude with this the numerical value of amalek iron is 70. mem is 40. lamid is 30 koof is a hundred what does that add up to 240. foreign the laws of honoring your father and mother are the 240th chapter why that is the power of amalek that power of amalek stems from the respect and honor they give their father and mother and how did we overcome them it was the yearning we had of Esther hamaka who wished she could have honored her father and mother wish she could have honored her her parents so let us remember this on Purim let's strengthen ourselves in this Mitzvah and in that Merit Hashem will bring Salvation to the Jewish people as in the days of Purim abias you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com