Rabbi Ike Sultan - Faith in Tomorrow (Pre-Purim)

Thank you for joining. Okay, that's the Arabic for Mahar will I am tomorrow we're not today. In Esther we hear a lot of times. The same phrase. That Esther asks email email told you not think I'm early you didn't not just today we should fight but God today plus tomorrow. Another time it comes up. I request you have a man on a ham locker and this one opens up the Pandora's Box. Why didn't Esther make one party then just to make another party? That's just Mahar. Just make one party and make the request. What's the big deal about Mahar? So it comes up three times in the Mahar same thing. That Haman when he repeats it over he says came to give it a gun. I was called today plus today plus Mahar. The measures notes that we have every time when we have a fight between. The Jews and refrain of Mahar. And it goes back to the first one we have in Moshe is saying that there is a fight with Molly coming. Attacking us so he tells you Moshe the same but Molly Mahar. Now it's a question which way the Mahar goes the has two different opinions Mahar part of the phrase we're going to fight tomorrow or Mahar tomorrow we're going to pray no matter what Mahar is part of the battle plan with a Malik. Says the measures. Measures on Esther says my Esther Mahar as tomorrow do what you want I'll call is a must be there's a that the measure says called Malik and they pull the marker. Malik always follows with marker. As it says it quotes the passage in in the Torah marker said marker and in the town of Giver and also it says in Samuel that that Samuel picked Saul to be the king marker was going to come from Benjamin and eventually he's going to try to wipe out Amalek. Again this theme. Here and here we see marker plays a big role. Question is what's the big deal? So taking a step back something else I think that's going to help explain this is a measure is a measure is based on the in Jeremiah that tells us when the Jewish people ask Jeremiah what are we going to do if we want to learn Torah if we want to do mitzvahs but we have to make we're busy all day trying to figure out what internships we're going to get what interviews what am I supposed to put on my resume says Jeremiah look Moshe told Moshe was told by Hashem to stash away some of the man in a jar put it in the cottage I tell him about my parties you Jeremiah says to the people you guys are asking what are we going to do how are we going to have any food? Go look at the man this is the evidence that can take care of us. Your forefathers are in the desert and nothing to eat and took care of you. Just like they took care of them. Take one vessel full of man and that man is going to be forever we're going to remember this miracle of the man. Question is how does this instill how does this help? It's very nice wonderful. Okay my Brooke beautiful they had the man they made it fall from heaven check every day ended at their door. But Jeremiah I don't have that. How's that a fair comparison? They learned Torah because they had it coming to them. But I don't have the man. How is this a good lesson for every generation? Says Eliahu Lopian, he says, we have it wrong. When it comes to the man, it's true they had the food they could eat. And it tastes like whatever they want, all the excitement of Rosh Hashanah. But when they went to sleep at the end of the day, could the mother pack the lunch for the baby for the next morning? We were trying to dream about breakfast and you look in the cabinets or you want to have a midnight snack. There's nothing there. You just get a portioned exactly what you need. At the end of the day, there's nothing left. And is it going to come tomorrow, a double portion when it comes to be Friday? I'm trying to figure out what am I going to make for the perm soda. Wait a minute, I don't have anything in the cupboard. I have nothing in the fridge. There's nothing in There's no ice cream in the freezer. The man was The man in the sand was a test. It was a tremendous test of our emunah to know Hashem's going to provide us like he took care of us today, he will take care of us machar as well. He's taking care of us tomorrow. That's the outlook of a Jew is not just to focus on what's right in front of our eyes today. What we have to focus on the machar as well. And Yirmiyahu was telling them, "Your forefathers were able to do that. They had emunah. They saw what they had today, and they didn't saw what they wasn't in front of them. But guess what? They had emunah that, you know what? Hashem, just like you took care of us now, will take care of us tomorrow. If we learn the lesson of the dor oclay haman, the people were able to eat the man and be able to be sure of themselves that tomorrow everything take care of, we're going to be able to be successful also in learning Torah and doing mitzvahs and not worrying about parnassah. When someone gives a text or get an email or something pops up on WhatsApp in the middle of seder, say, "There's a machar. I could deal with it after seder. I could deal with it later. It doesn't have to be right now. I'll deal about the parnassah. I'll deal about I'll deal with the meals later. Right now, I have to deal with the mitzvahs that are in front of me." Says Rabbi Lopian, that's the essence, okay, of this lesson of machar. When he quotes "How do you say about passing to learn him? Shachain eretz re'a emunah." We live in the land and we're supposed to have emunah. So he says, "What's the connection between the two?" He says, "A lot of times life is getting distracted." And I think this is relevant to all of the Torah, relevant to Or Azu Torah and Simchas Bais Hasho'eivah. First we have Torah and then we come to Simchas Bais Hasho'eivah, but a lot of times life is very complicated, we get distracted. We don't feel the ahava. Why? Because I'm dealing with 35 things. I'm trying to remember to deal about this midterm and this whatever date and also trying to learn night seder and trying to remember this and trying to remember that. I don't remember anything and I didn't learn very much. And then it comes out there's no ahava. Ahava is something that says the Chofetz Chaim, "Shachain eretz, you have to live lie low in the land. Live in live on so to speak like the Mishna Pirkei Avos, sleep on the ground, eat bread and water." If if life is simple, you're living in the land in a simple way, you're not focusing on everything else in the in the gashmius in the world, then re'a emunah, then you'll be able to not be distracted and see emunah. The same thing work comes about when we're talking about simcha. We're talking about Avodas Hashem or Avodas Hashem is not just a momentary job, it's a relationship. Avak K'fi Yedei Kochav Avah, it's something that takes work. It's something that takes a perspective of Mahar. And with that we're able to overcome Amalek. Amalek tells us, "Look, only focus in the moment." But it's limud, it's known, it's we know "Zera Amalek l'ipol limud l'ipol be Mahar." Rebbe Willig spoke about this and something in the Rav Hutner Pachad Yitzchak Yom Kippurim Siman Hey where he says, "Mahar represents our focus on eternal hope. That Hashem is going to take us out of the troubles and the tzaros that we're in right now with Iran sending missiles or the fact that we have some distraction coming up coming about. The fact that we don't get bogged down and distracted by that. The fact that we're able to transcend that and learn Torah, we're able to build up an Avodas Hashem, we'll be able to tap into the auras of simcha or the auras of Torah. But if we're focused only in the hayom, sometimes we eat, drink, and be merry tomorrow we'll die. That's the the Greek philosophy. That's a chol hashem. When you focus on the machar, of course we need to use every moment we have in front of us. When you focus when it comes to a parnassa, when it comes to distractions, push it off. Tomorrow, not today. It doesn't need to be a focus exactly at the moment. And that's the last sin. Of course the matter has cool of a second cherish him. Cool of ahava. The mishkan was built with complete ahava, with complete love. If you want to ever build a place for avas hashem, it takes a lot of work, a lot of dedication day after day. But with our with our work in in removing distractions, claim a ray amuna, focusing on the machar, we'll be able to be successful in achieving this. One other gematria that Achashverosh says, "I'll give you ad chatzi malchus up to half a malchus." Rabbi Vinderbaum had a great gematria. 496 is malchus. Half of malchus is machar. Machar 248 ramach mitzvos. You're focusing says Achashverosh, "I'll give you up to Amalek, up to machar. I'm not going to give you machar." He didn't want to give in. But our focus has to be on machar, has to be on the ramach mitzvos, has to be on hayom hayom our day today olam hazeh is to work olam haba l'kabel sachar um the olam haba is the real place where we enjoy, where we're able to appreciate the mitzvos, to appreciate our connection to Hakadosh Baruch Hu more directly, but it takes all the work day by day. Yeshar koach. B'ruchim haba'im.