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Part 40: Purim and the Power of Mi’Makom Acheir
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okay good morning everyone I am sorry I
can't offer you a drink I'm even sorry
or I can't have a
drink but I'm glad even though we
weren't able to have the class yesterday
I'm glad we were able to have it today
our learning this morning and always the
amuna groupa she is sponsored
anonymously loving memory of sh
shows and before we take a look at this
slba before we look inside just a word
about Tannis Esther
which I've shared in a few different
venues already this week but someone
mentioned this morning they said good
morning and they said I don't know if I
can say good morning a happy morning
testor is unlike every other fast day
normally on Fast days there's a sense of
seriousness and sobriety we're somber
because it's a day of collective
introspection and reflection normally on
a fast day whether it's the four fast
days that revolve around the destruction
of the basa mikash
um but normally there's an element of
sadness of seriousness
we're introspecting we're thinking about
what went wrong what did we do wrong how
did we get to this point why are we in
this condition because fast days usually
revolve around tragedy we think about
all of the oppression and persecution
that we survived the r writes inos that
most fast days
are or the result of Theos of the
tragedies taner though in contrast
is it commemorates the fast and what it
means to commemorate a fast is not just
it commemorates the fast as in you know
we didn't we uh we didn't eat and we
didn't drink then so we don't eat and we
don't drink now to commemorate the fast
for the R means to commemorate
everything that happened then H
understood that we were vulnerable
because we were a scattered and
fragmented people I think we more we
were a scattered and fragmented people
among the Nations we were divided we
were judgmental we
were not functioning in a in a unified
fashion and a result as a result we were
vulnerable so hamon understood when are
the Jewish people most vulnerable when
they are divided and Scattered when
they're not getting along when they're
hypercritical when they're judging when
they're marginalized one another that's
when they're vulnerable so Mor and said
or
instructed go gather everybody together
and says fast for me and then I'll have
the courage to go in so the ramam says
when we fast today what we're doing
today is Thomas we are not fasting as a
source of chuva we're not fasting to
reflect on calamities and tragedies
we're fasting to relive purum reliving
pum doesn't begin Saturday night Sunday
with the Salvation reliving pum begins
with that which brought about pum
reliving purum begins with the Catalyst
for purum the miracle would not have
happened if we didn't come together with
a sense of unity with a sense ofus so
today thester is is y it's the day of
unity we're not fasting St we're fasting
so that we are interconnected with all
those fasting around the world that we
are a community of fasters that we are
creating a sense of peoplehood we are a
nation we are
reliving we are reliving that sense of
being together the rivid writes that all
of the fast days are sad and somber but
Tanis Esther has an element to tinge of
sim you could say good morning you could
say how are you you could say have a
great day you could listen to live music
Happy music it's a happy day a isn't it
a contradiction how could you have a
fast day and a happy day at the same
time the answer is normally a fast day
is a day of chuva but this fast day
today is a happy day when we reflect
when you realize Jews around the world
are all fasting for the same reason
we're all reliving we're reenacting the
entire episode of Pam and the episode
began
with so when we relive the episode we
relive it in the same way by fasting by
fasting to it's a totally different way
of looking at tester it's not a sad day
a somber day it's a happy day and it's a
day that we're you know it's not always
easy to give up that coffee it's not
easy to give up that food for the day
but it's a happy day that we are we are
uh connecting and it's a day to focus
and concentrate
on how can we part be part of the
solution rather than the problem too
many people are part of the problem
they're judging they're criticizing
they're marginalizing they're condemning
they're dividing so they're not talking
to the they'll never dve in that the
people that are not really orthod
everybody they not not not not not
there's no way that salvation comes in
that circumstance if we long for the
Yeshua that they had in the days of P
then we best follow their model
of the fasting as the prerequisite okay
we're going to look at today we're
taking a break from our normal course of
study we've been studying
thei on uh we have some more short Sho
here
yeah p is bad well everyone's normally
at the gym at this time but it's Tas
eser so nobody's working out today
they're all everyone's normally at
Starbucks Starbucks Dunkin' Donuts the
gym
and from now on we'll have auna class on
all fast days so we're normally learning
the is
Shalom on his his section called y Torah
where he's been defining amuna for us
today we're going to take a break and
look at something from
the specifically
on so he says the
following the miracle of is unparalleled
there's nothing like
it
the call to destroy and obliterate and
eliminate and exterminate the
Jews and it went out to 127 provinces
this call and it was on one
day all
ages there was nothing ever like it now
there was something like it the final
solution Hitler's but not on one day not
127 they conquered country by country
and the plan grew until it culminated
with the final solution but this notion
that the XA that a call went out from
the emperor of the greatest Empire of
the world who ruled over 127 provinces
on one day that all Jews were to be
eliminated the idea that it was signed
and sealed with the Signet of the King
was nothing like
it and the Miracle the Salvation the way
in which it had a positive outcome also
unparalleled nothing like it
am am you know the story of Jewish
history is the story of our limping away
from attempted extermination it's the
story of surviving the pgam surviving
the the uh Exile surviving
the persecution it's a story of survival
and limping away but that's not this
story everything was turned upside down
it's like the Israeli team that won
again last night they're not three and0
it's unbelievable they're they're
they're the darling it's not just like
Jewish newspapers are talking about how
this Israeli team the underdog with like
the scrappiest Jewish nonprofessional
baseball players ever they're like the
Bad News Bears you know of uh so
anyway we didn't limp away from Ham's
decree from A's decree we we turned the
whole thing on its head the Jews ruled
am we have no other example of that
where we not only survived but we
actually became
empowered and what was the result the
Jewish people when they experienced that
miracle in when they experienced that
Miracle they reaffirmed the commitment
to the Torah an affirmation that had not
existed beforehand which is an
outstanding statement it means that the
two to three million Jews who stood at
har and said nasma that we've just been
reading about they paled in comparison
to the level of commitment to the level
of Devotion to the level of affirmation
that the Jews who survived to experience
the miracle of in fact the understands
when the
says that previously Hashem held the
mountain over the Jewish people's head
and he said if you accept the Torah mut
it's great and if
not that's your burial place which is
the whole question of the should say
take why does it say sham except the to
God held the mountain over our head and
he said I got a deal you can't refuse I
have an offer you can't refuse accept
the Torah we're all good and well don't
accept the Torah I'm dropping the
mountain and if you don't accept T sham
what do you mean sham there here here
where I'm holding the mountain so ask me
that AR sh so so we originally accepted
the Torah out of coercion we were forced
and the whole time we were we were
observing Torah from har until until the
story of purum which happened
when historically chronologically
afteru between the two so from all that
time we were observing Torah out of
coercion because hasem gave us an
ultimatum no other choice but with the
story
of we now reaffirmed not because we were
forced but because we volunteered we
accepted which let's spend one second on
that because it's so hard to understand
the Jewish people who stood at har were
called the D DEA this was the the
privileged generation who had received
the greatest Revelation in history they
saw the 10 plagues of Egypt God
suspended The Rules of Nature did
everything out of the ordinary they saw
the splitting of the sea they stood at
and they heard hashem's voice Theon
communicate directly not through an
agent this is the ddea and yet their
level of of commitment was less than the
Jews of shushan who had attended the
meal of who went to these parties they
were doesn't just mean geographically
they were scattered among the people
physically they were assimilated they
were assimilated in their values we'll
go on a tangent of a tangent for a
moment that's that's morai is always
identified in the Miga as m
and why is
he all right I got it I got it after the
first time he's a Jew M the Jew Jew Mor
I got
it so the answer is that everyone else
forgot what it meant to be a Jew you see
Mor you know there's a great question
you could ask on the Milla which is Mor
is a hero of the story Mor is a villain
of the story why couldn't he bow down to
ham the is that M was allowed to bow
down there a to if you're if you're not
actually intending to worship an idol if
you're bowing down and To Save A Life
That's not included in the y or the
Cardinal law that you have to give your
life forget the technical reason Hally
Mori was entitled to bow down and yet he
was so obstinate so stubborn and his
stubbornness risked the entire Jewish
people because he refused to bow down
hamon became aggravated and agitated and
hamon instigates this entire plot to
destroy the Jewish people because this
one Jew couldn't bow down just bow down
I'm going going a tangent of ATT tangent
of attention why was so
aggravated
says have this cute interplay where they
say where is an illusion in the Torah to
this Rabin story that was only destined
to happen Generations later where is
Esther in the
Torah I'm going to hide my face where's
where's ham in the Torah where's Mor in
the Torah M among the ingredients of the
incense where is ham in the Torah
when when Hashem tells Adam you see this
Garden it's all yours mangoes and
oranges and grap fruit and it's all
yours enjoy whatever you want that one
just stay just stay away from this one
tree what's the used to say what's the
power H ham had everyone bowing down to
him everyone one lousy Jew refused to
bow down and hamon was obsessed hamon
couldn't go on hamon was in therapy
taking anti-depressants he was on
alcohol he was a drug addict he just
couldn't overcome the fact that the one
lousy Jew wouldn't bow down to
him he had everything else in the garden
everyone else was bowing down to him so
where do we see a precedent that you
could have everything in the world but
there's one thing you can't have and
that's what you obsess over and it's
your downfall where do we see that the
we see that the story that's what it
means everything but on the other end
there Mor such just bad bow down bow bow
down the Jewish people's at risk just
bow down so the answer is yeah Mor
technically was allowed to bow down but
Mor looked around and he saw what was
happening the Jewish people were
assimilated they had totally integrated
into the society to the extent that they
celebrated their own demise without even
realizing it they went to the party of a
what was the party of a this Mish he had
calculated there was a prophecy that the
bash would be rebuilt after a certain
period of time and his miscalculation
had concluded that that amount of time
had passed and the Bas m is not being
rebuilt and it's time to party so bring
out the and dress me in the big day
Kahuna and let's celebrate that God is
no longer that the Jewish people are no
longer the chosen ones that the Bas of
mdash will not be rebuilt and he sends
an invitation he makes a a Facebook
event and all the
Jews respond to the E invite we'll
attend we'll attend we'll attend all the
Jews are at this party celebrating their
own demise and looks at this
assimilation and he says uh-uh
technically I'm allowed to bow down but
someone's got to be a yehudi someone's
got to be a Jew someone's got to remind
them that we have our own identity that
we have our own status that we are a
distinct people
that and therefore M does and he and
that's the that's what T is
about to fast and to DAV and to remember
you have a Jewish Soul maybe you look
like the people of shushan maybe you
listen to the music of people of shushan
maybe
you you know enjoy the fashion and the
style of the people of shushan never
forget that
you're go gather all the Jews and remind
them they're Jews remind them that they
have a mission remind them they're
different and mor throughout the Milla
is known not just as morai he's known as
Mor he's morai the Jew so this too oh so
now let's get back to the original so
the had said the notion that the Jewish
people that with Pur the Jews of
shushan observed Torah affirmed their
commitment to Torah at a greater level
than those who stood at sini than the D
DEA than those who experienced the
greatest Revelation and we asked how
could that be the D DEA are this
incredibly elevated people and those
Jews of shushan went to the party of
a they used the utens
that we're reading about in our they
wore the that we're reading in
this what do you mean they saw
more I think the answer is very simple
what does it mean the says it doesn't
mean God literally are we to understand
literally if you're a rationalist you're
going to struggle with the idea that God
lifted a mountain and held it over the
head and said take it or no good or I'm
going to drop it what does it mean it
means the coercion was the result of the
reev reation see why do we have free
will why do we have free will you're
choosing right now whether a fast or not
fast you're going to leave here and
choose whether this big Lush not speak
you're going to choose whether
it's why do we have free will the only
reason we have free will is because God
is
hidden Esther Hashem is hidden if God
were revealed we've talked about this
many times if God were revealed people
often ask if only God spoke to me if
only I could see God if only I knew with
certainty I'd be the best I'd be the
greatest I'd really behave why can't he
talk to me the way he talks to the
people in Tanakh the answer is if God
spoke to us we wouldn't have free will
you can't do the wrong thing when you
know God is in the room right the
example I always give is some people
some not me some people go a little bit
over the speed limit but nobody ever
speeds to pass a police
car you're a you're a if you
step on the gas pedal and fly past the
cop you're an idiot
right because when the cop's not there
you could PR you're not going to get
caught it's not really so wrong it's
Justified where I have to go the speed
limit is just for people who can't drive
as well as I can you come up with all
these rationalizations why it's okay
you're you have free will but when the
policeman's in front of you and you
understand the consequence of what
you're going to do you don't really have
a legitimate alternative you don't have
choices presented if Theon were revealed
to us if we knew with certainty he was
here could you possibly do the wrong
thing you couldn't possibly do the wrong
thing so the only way to preserve Free
Will and Free Will is what gives meaning
and purpose to life so the prerequisite
to preserve free will is that Hashem
remains hidden from us so when Hashem is
revealed you have no choice I think
that's what that's the maral not exactly
in this way but the maral
says means they just saw the 10 plagues
daa because they were the door DEA they
had seen the 10 plagues they saw the
splitting of the sea they heard hashem's
voice at ouri what are you going to say
thanks but no thanks you going to say
I'm not interested when hasem speaks to
you directly when Hashem reveals himself
to you directly it was the ultimate of
Revelation and the ultimate of
Revelation is the ultimate of coercion
fast forward to the generation of
shushan shushan is the ultimate of God
being hidden it's the story of h p
millas eser doesn't have hashem's name
anywhere in it if you want to you could
read millas eser and say huh what a
string of coincidences look at that what
are the odds that Mori would be a member
of the son hedrin so he would speak the
language so he would understand the plot
to kill the king what are the odds the
king couldn't sleep one night and he'd
asked for the book and he dka open up to
the page to read about him what are the
odds he'd ask come on to parade Mor
around and what are the odds and what
are the odds and what a coincidence and
what chance and what Randomness over and
over if you want to read the story of
the Milla as a story of chance and
happen stance and Randomness if you want
to read it the way Alik would read
it everything is chance and happen
stance you can Milla is the ultimate
story of hiddenness but our job is to to
see that every time the word h is used
in the
m is not talking
about is referring to
the hashem's name is in the Milla it's
just between the lines you have to look
for it you have to reveal it you have to
uncover it which is the essence of its
name i' been saying this all week in
different venues so I apologize if you
heard it already but it's the essence of
the name of the Milla the Mig is called
millas Esther it's not called millas
Mori even though Mori really
precipitated the miracle without Mor
prodding Esther Esther had the courage
to go in without Mor's encouragement and
prodding it wouldn't have happen but
it's not called millas Mori it's called
millas Esther because what's the aod
what's the essence what are we doing
millas eser we're being meala the nister
see hashem's name your Milla migala
means to reveal Esther nister means that
which is hidden our job when we listen
to the Milla is to hear and to reveal
that which is hidden inside so the Jews
of shushan if the D DEA the Jews of the
desert who experienced the Miracles ofus
MIM had experienced the ultimate
Revelation for them Torah was coercion
then the Jews and shushan who had the
the option and I'm sure there were you
don't think there were cynical sarcastic
Jews who after the miracle of peram said
H what are you making a holiday what did
God have anything to do with this it
turned out Esther is the hero she had
the courage she went in and then the
party and one of the odds that ham
tripped and fell on top of Esther right
when walked in what why what are you
talking about God Where's God in this
you could look at the Six Day War and
say wow Israel Superior military Israel
Superior Superior weapons and a whole
string of coincidences and it's so good
that the Egyptians and the syrians
miscommunicated and the Israeli Air
Force took out the Egyptians in the
first day what are you talking about
Where's God in the sixth day war Where's
God or you could see the story of the
sixth day war and you could be meala the
it's another Milla sester you could say
wow wow Hashem is in the story
is throughout the story so shushan the
Jews of shushan achieved and
accomplished something that the
predecessors had not
done that which had been coerced upon
them because of divine revelation now
they accepted on their own valtion
because they had the option of walking
away they could have read it as if God
was not there they could have remained
hidden and they chose to reveal it and
that that's the highest level that's
Theo a beautiful
rautner he says the gar in says why
don't we say Hal Sunday morning you're
not going to say Hal say
Hal why you
say so the gives three answers first
answer is a miracle that happened
outside of Israel you don't say the
third answer is
RA we're still part of the fourth Gus
we're still in Exile we still don't have
the B mikdash how could you sing Hal as
if the miracle is complete but the
second answer is fashion it's he says he
because the reading of the Milla is Hal
so what does that mean so on a simple
level it sounds like the reading of the
Milla is Hal it
means D is long enough you're reading
the Milla it's in place of it's good
enough you're good to
go says something magnificent he says
how always correlates with the miracle
the type of Halal you say the type of
praise and thanks you offer is
consistent with the way the miracle
happened so A N nigla A revealed Miracle
like PES a revealed Miracle like Kaneka
so the type of Hal you sing is a Hal
nigla you say the typical revealed
Hollow where you're singing and thanking
Hashem but a n Nar a hidden Miracle you
offer a hidden hollow the Milla is a
hidden hollow don't make a it trans
forms the way you hear the Milla in
other words when you hear the Milla on
Sunday morning you're not listening like
a the Milla doesn't have the status
likeor of you're listening to the story
The Milla is hollow you're hearing Hal
we're singing Hal through hearing the
Milla in the same way in which the
miracle happened when it's a revealed
Miracle it's a revealed Hal when it's a
hidden Miracle it's a hidden hollow it's
an incredible Insight ofner he is a
beautiful R he brings beautiful proof
from the but all for another time
because we're like three lines into this
so anyway that was when he
says with the fourth
line so the threat was unparalleled the
Salvation was
unparalleled the level of commitment to
Torah that
resulted unparalleled
was the
Madre that the Jews had gone from this
low level to the highest level from
being forced and coerced to doing it out
of volition out of a sense of
volunteering if you look from all I've
shared with you now is is is revealed
Torah but then theab quotes the Aral and
the
Aral says that the light of pum pum
brings a light into the world you can
tap into a light that is far brighter
than any light the rest of the year
says that Y
is right everybody quotes this from
theun the Z says it's not a coincidence
that the names of these two
holidays and Y we call it Yer for short
we abbreviate it but the real name
is it's a day that's only like so which
of the two days is
greater pum is the greater
day there also talks about p and Yumer
are two sides of the same coin so Yumer
is the I'm sorry Yumer is the day in
which you he says the following per and
yum are two sides of the same coin where
yum Kipper we attain a high level
through removing oursel from the
physical world we are Angelic so by
abstaining by by living aesthetically by
not eating or drinking or leather shoes
or anointing or pleasure we are Angelic
we transcend the physical world we are
souls P we are able to achieve the
highest level not by transcending the
physical world but by transforming the
physical world so it's the what's the
opposite of not drinking drinking drink
drinking alcohol drinking a lot right
what's the opposite of not eating
feasting feasting feasting so says
because y ker and puram are two sides
and which is the higher level which is
the higher level is it Greater to become
Holy by by abstaining an aesthetic life
is that the way to Holiness or is it
Greater to become Holy by engaging the
physical world and transforming it and
elevating it and the Torah says that the
nazer has to bring a he's called a why
because the result is that the nazer
becomes holy but he took the shortcut to
Holiness she took the the short a woman
could also be a nazer she took the
shortcut to Holiness and that's not the
way to become holy it's easy fast sit in
the corner of the room don't engage in
the physical don't talk to anybody it's
easy to be holy that way but live in the
physical world operate in the physical
world engage the physical world and
transform and Elevate the physical world
that's the ultimate Holiness and that's
why y yeah pum you're holy pum we tap
into we experience Holiness for the day
but we're taking kind of the shortcut
the cop out it's good that we do it
because we need it it cleanses us it's
cathartic it's important it's obligated
but it's a shortcut if we can do it on
purum it's the even higher level so
footner says because they're the two
sides of the same coin both are about
the path to Holiness but through two
different Roots so say footner that's
why
oner what do you have to do you have to
ask is consistent with the way we're
trying to achieve the Holiness so how do
you how do you promote the between man
and maner
you it's a spiritual connection what do
you do on Pam you deliver
it's the physical means of creating
interpersonal bonds and connections here
has a beautiful beautiful mimer that
traces this whole path that puram is the
the finding kadha in the physical y the
lower level is finding kadha in the in
the abstaining from the physical and the
whole way that we observe the two
different days in terms of the versus
the m in terms of the asking versus the
mishos and so on is all consist with the
nature of the two different days so says
that that pales in comparison
to only works for the person who's
working it y only works for the person
who's engaged in a sincere process of
chva but P provides a Kap even for those
who are not engaged in it because is
quotes that anyone who sticks out their
hand you got to give them stuck on
whatever the standards are the rest of
the year that's why kids all walk around
and hasn't really hit our neighborhood
this man but the no kids who know this
will walk around and stick their hand
out to every adult and get a dollar they
get perm gelt this is uh the idea of
where it comes from so theb is applying
this from the physical sense to the
spiritual sense that that yum requires
sincere attempt cha where everybody's
accepted
as it
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says sometimes the our year is signed
and
sealed right this is the
great the greatest um scam is the wrong
word because it sounds harsh
but the toad is so brilliant and our
rabbis were so brilliant they understood
people operate on deadlines they need
deadlines so the idea you could do chuva
any day of the year means that you'll
never do chva I'll do it next week I'll
do it next month I'll get to it after P
I clean you know I'll do it eventually
but by instituting deadlines and
timelines it forces us to behave in a
certain way but even those are not
really to hard deadlines so L we say you
better get ready rash is coming rash you
say
you say you haven't told the then the
doors are shut they're not really shut
all the way because they have and if
still didn't get through you have the
of and if you didn't get it done by the
eth day of says the you have
to because when the Milla says that it
was sealed
with that's when the King it's a of it's
already p is already like a of rashash
it's already a of the next Kipper you
know
yeah used to end the S by saying every
year that if you put your ear to the
table if you listen carefully you could
hear the sound of the
chauffeur the reason that we we we delay
the ual ceiling till p is because by P
everybody gets in because even those who
are not sincerely engaged in the process
whoever sticks out their hand is
answered so until now the has introduced
to us all of these unique aspects of the
threats unparalleled the Miracles
unparalleled the fact that we didn't
just limp away but we
became we became a charge un paralled
the fact that we didn't just retain our
faith we didn't just renew our faith but
we attained the greatest level of Faith
Kim unparalleled the fact that Ys in
comparison to pum wow the fact that even
those who are not returning sincerely
are accepted Pur the fact that puram is
a window that provides a greater light
than any day the rest of the year
amazing so what is it about puram that's
doing all this that's the question we're
going to end here I'm just
joking be all right
says
the it all comes down to the following
sentence says the son the greatest
sentence Esther hesitates says
look you didn't want this position you
didn't ask to go into that competition
you didn't want to win it but who knows
if this is why you're here it's been
ordained that we're all going to get
killed but I'll tell you what Esther you
know what you don't want to do it don't
do
it you don't want to do it don't do it
says M I know we're going to survive
this I know we're going to be just fine
everything's going to be okay hashem's
got our back you can be the heroine of
the story or someone else can be the
hero of the story
re you don't want to do it don't do it
Esther was telling Mor I don't know if
this a good idea if anyone goes there
and they're not invited their head's
chopped off I don't think this is a very
good
idea what was Esther's
argument you have to understand that
Esther was not un righteous Esa was
righteous in her own right she didn't
believe she didn't trust that hm had a
master plan things were going to work
out so what was she telling morai why
did she demure what did it mean I don't
know if this is a good idea soam RAB
says Esther was looking and she was
analyzing the facts she was looking at
nature and she says according to the
Natural order of things according to
what appears to me on the surface
there's no way
here anyone who enters the king without
being invited they're going to be
killed so what she didn't believe that
they were worthy of a miracle and the
answer is no she looked around the Jews
she saw what what Mor saw and she said
going to a party that celebrates their
own demise they're eating and drinking
out of the of the B mikdash they're
wearing the big day Kahuna these
assimilated no good reject Rebels
there's no way deserve a miracle to
happen for them so therefore I don't see
how this is possible there's no way to
pull this off in the natural order and
they're not worthy of something
Supernatural so I just don't see the way
out I don't see
it she's going to go into the king
Uninvited risk her life in the king's
inner chamber is our Idols that are
hanging from the wall it's forbidden
really for her to be there what's she
going to risk her life she's going to
she's going to contaminate her soul even
more than she had already by
marrying by being in a room with these
SL with these with these Idols when she
sees that there's no way it's going to
work so answers her no no no no
no you and your mother's house you're
goners you don't want to be the Catalyst
for the Redemption you don't want to
bring about the miracle you don't want
to be the hero of the story you will not
be a footnote to history you will be
absent in history but says Mor you see
there's no way out I see there's no
problem
here why did have to throw that in isn't
it a little gratuitous couldn't he have
said to her you don't want to be the
heroin don't I think by the way it's
politically correct now even women are
heroes you're not supposed to go Heroes
you don't want to be the hero
so don't be the hero someone else will
be the hero why did he have to throw in
but you and your family you're goners
you're going to be destroyed why that's
gratuitous why couldn't she survive with
everybody else through someone else
being the
hero so here's what hold on Penny say
one more minute because this is the
punch line okay go ahead
what Mor was saying to Esther was you
don't understand what is all about you
don't get what amuna is amuna is not
when you see a way out you have trust
that hashm is going to let you walk
through the way out that's not amuna you
saw the way out just walk through the
way out amuna is when you see no way out
and you still believe that things are
going to be okay when you have no idea
how you have no idea how it's going to
work out but it works
out from where
so he says this many times throughout
the saer that the core of the Milla the
story of the Milla is what the core of
is the belief
in somewhere else somehow somewhere some
way Hashem is Unlimited in what he can
do says I could care less what's
possible in the natural order I can care
less what you see on the surface I can
care less what you think the limited
possibilities are
there's always something you're not
thinking of how many of us in our own
lives found ourselves in a situation
that we thought there was no way out of
financial situation a health situation
some Challenge and all of a sudden there
was a new solution that we had never
even dreamt of that we never thought
could be that was never even a
possibility that's the
Mak Esther had
amazing but it had limits it had a
ceiling it only went so far she failed
to subscribe to the principle of that
Hashem can make it happen from somewhere
else that you don't even see that you
can't even imagine and says to
her not only will salvation come but
it's going to come someplace we can't
even dream we're not even
anticipating and because you don't
believe in the you won't be part of that
Miracle because you don't believe that
Hashem is capable of anything you think
Hashem can only bring miracles from that
which you can imagine the Miracles have
to be within your comprehension the
Miracles have to be among the options
and Alternatives that you can dream of
that's
not says is to believe in the that when
you've given up all hope when you think
the impossible to know that it's still
possible
the in says first believe in trust in
hem and then do good what do you mean
don't you have to first do good and earn
trusting in Hashem the ran says no
Hashem is your loving
father he quotes this and what the other
say for that we're studying of his as
well so we've seen
this's your father trust in him you know
even when a child has disappointed a
parent so the parent took away the phone
and the iPad and the laptop and grounded
them but now there's a car that's about
to slam into the child child is the
parent going to be well you know they're
in timeout right now so I guess I'll let
them get hit by the car the parent still
grabs the kid out of the
way yeah I say to to get your iPad back
but the big thing that you have to know
has your
back even if you're unworthy even if
you're on a low level says to
Esther look around are they assimilated
yeah have they sold out absolutely are
they on a really low level 100% are they
in trouble do we need to inspire them
and work on them we got a lot of work to
do but should you therefore give up that
Hashem is not going to cover them that's
not that's not that's not what we
believe comes after
first even if you think that the Jewish
people are unworthy go into that King
you know why
because there's a there's always another
possib ility hasem can bring Salvation
and solutions even when you can't even
imagine
it if you have
real go into that King and trust that
that even though it violates the rules
you can't go in Uninvited and even
though you can't imagine what is going
to do and how he's going to receive you
never stop believing the never stop stop
believing that there's another
place this level of is
called he goes on he talks about there's
two ways of believing
in that's theem on one level and then
there's
the the god that took us
out that's in this world the
daily the daily that I thank hasem you
gave me my legs you gave me the air to
breathe you gave me the roof of my head
you gave me the car you G I thank hasem
for the that's hem
but that's the origin
of what brings the Salvation is when you
could tap into that super incredible
level of faith of not just I believe
Hashem can make it happen from among the
possibilities I can see but but I can
but that Hashem is going to make it
happen beyond anything I can imagine
beyond my comprehension beyond what I
could picture Beyond even what I Can
Dream and that explains the dialogue the
conversation between morai and Esther
what morai was encouraging Esther it
explains why he
says and it explains the uniqueness of
per we're going to end here we don't
have time to go through the rest of this
long piece but I'll get skip to the
punchline what he's saying is that when
you can tap into the level of then that
is that's that great light that's the
unparalleled light you know the the of
the of
of is a lot of light but it's not as
great as PM when they thought all hope
was lost there is no solution it's
impossible it's an even higher level the
light is even greater that's why it's
unparalleled Miracles and that's
why and that's
why because now they affirmed something
of their own valtion they weren't
coerced there wasn't Revelation they
believed in that
and the Miracle came through for them
they survived they only
survive and
because they had an even greater
relationship with hem than they had had
before him so our aod our work we have a
longer peram than usual usually Tanis is
a of pum so this notion that Tanis eser
is the beginning of the celebration of
pum is a 48 hour period but now it's
Tanis
eser it's pum we got the whole weekend
to work on this so so our our work for
the weekend is to work on our not just
to see hem as being able to bring a
solution from among what we can see but
to realize that hem can bring solutions
to our problems even beyond that which
we can imagine to tap into
that and to to realize
that that we should never despair that
whatever is happening Hashem can be our
solution as he was for the Jews of
shush thank you