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Mazel tovasana I want to wish Mrs
Feynman a big mazel tov
for his son's wedding
it was beautiful to be there she have a
lot of
couple is happy they looked very happy
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Brandy okay I want to welcome Brandy to
our class what's the last name
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thank you for coming
and who brought you somebody brought you
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and welcome Hindi
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here in this class
and personalities
great souls and great personalities
yeah
so thank you everybody
and I want to thank very much higher
freshman
for dedicating this class together with
her husband Elio and Kaya freshman
and gratitude
and in honor of her birthday
Mazel Tov virus
and as she wrote in her dedication may
all the souls of humanity be healed with
the coming of mashiach very soon
amen and thank you very much and thank
you for coming all the way from Far
Rockaway
to Grace us with your physical presence
not only virtual presence
so today we begin of course the month of
others
the gamara says in tyness
the whole month is a month
of joy and festivities and the reason is
because as the Magilla says
the month was a month that was
transformed it wasn't just today
in the month
14th of other the 15th of other but the
entire month
is a month of Celebration
the reason for that is because hamon
focused very much on the month
he chose he he cast his laugh lot as
gyro is poor to figure out not only
which day of the month but also which
month
so the transformation is not just of the
day above of the month and that's why it
says it's interesting that your xiaomi
says that with the event
that if somebody let's say won't have a
Magilla on the days of Purim so the but
the Avid I mean obviously the priority
is to do it on Purim but
the fact though one can read the Magilla
the entire month of other which is very
unique you don't have it with any other
months you don't say if you can eat
Matson peso you know eat Matsu the last
day of Nissan if you can't blow shuffle
your fastest
but with Purim it's something that
extends for the entire month
so today I want to focus on
one little piece in the story of Purim
in the Magilla
which is very easy to overlook and miss
because the Magilla has 10 chapters the
Book of Esther has 10 chapters with many
many details and nuances and they all
create a mosaic a tapestry of a single
story which ultimately saves the Jewish
people
but sometimes there are these little
details and nuances that you can easily
Miss but they're somehow a critical part
of the story and that's what we're going
to discuss today
it's one posseck it's in the second
chapter of the mcgillicester the 11th
verse Esther Esther Patrick bass
prosecuted Olive and your Source sheets
it's the First Source sheet and by the
way we post all the source sheets on the
yeshiva.net so if anybody ever wants to
review it it's all there
it's a PDF there under yeshiva.net and
let me just give the context the context
everybody remembers probably but just to
review it very briefly and concisely
is now the Persian king he is the
monarch
he is a very powerful Monarch one of the
great monarchs in the Persian Empire as
the Magilla begins his provinces are
wide and Broad he rules over
127 regions or what we would call zip
codes or provinces
Medina Medina cities states country
different regions I would say and uh
at the third year of his rulership
in the third year of his becoming King
he decides to throw a grand party but
it's not just a party it's not just a
weekend it's not even two weeks it's a
party that lasts for
187 days talk about throwing a party
right if a year has 365 days so
basically this party continues for a
half a year straight
and the the party is quite impressive a
lot of drinking a lot of food a lot of
fun a lot of entertainment a lot of
beauty as the Magilla describes in
detail and we know the end of the story
though is a strange one where he gets
into a major fight with his Queen vashti
and ultimately eliminates or executes
her and now the king is in a depression
because he's lonely he's looking for a
wife
and this is where his advisors suggest
that he should send out
delegations he should send out
ambassadors emissaries Messengers to be
able to fetch and search a whole search
Committee created to find the proper
Queen for Akash verse and the Magilla
really dedicates a lot of space in
chapter two to describe the process even
though it would not seem so relevant but
apparently it's relevant exactly how the
girls were taken and found and brought
and what was the procedure and how many
months they had to prepare and what the
preparation was preparation the types of
perfumes that were used the type of
decorations and the system and when the
king would see them and who was in
charge on all these girls that were
coming
and so the story continues Esther who is
a obviously a Jewish woman is also taken
but
Esther is taken to the king and
he sees her
and ultimately She also asked him
appeared to six months and six months
ultimately takes a liking to her that
Magilla says he really he cherishes her
he values her and
he decides to betroth her and turn her
into the queen of the Persian Empire
huh
he marries her in the seventh year of
his kingdom
remember vashti was killed in the third
year so for many years he was searching
there were girls coming all the time but
it's from year three four five six only
the seventh year the Magilla says and he
throws another huge feast Mr Esther to
celebrate his new Queen whom he values
and loves so much and he gives a tax
discount Etc
in this story when Esther is taken and
now she's in the palace
she's meeting the king he's meeting her
she's being prepared to see him
constantly
the Magilla throws out a possum says as
follows the First Source
every single day murder
would walk
and Miss halek means it wasn't just a
walking once Miss Allah means he would
walk back and forth doesn't say you know
he went by Miss Holly like if
you go and you go back and you go back
and you go back
so every single day Mordechai is walking
back and forth
in front of the khasar the courtyard
base sanosham where they had a special
Palace or Castle a mansion with the
women
were stayed where they dormed where they
were given their needs those who were
who would ultimately go for an interview
why did he do this is
to know to be aware of the well-being of
Esther
um and what is happening with her as we
know Mordechai was Esther's cousin as
the Magilla says Esther was an orphan
and Mordechai
raised her and took care of her
because as the Magilla said she had no
father and mother so mother took her in
to his home and he raised her so now
when she was taken to the king
he couldn't stop it but every single day
he went to see what is going on
now
at first glance
one would not see this detail as
anything essential to the story it's a
nice detail I didn't just you know
ignore her he raised her and he cared
for her and he went every day but it
would seem like just okay it's part of
the story because it happened but the
truth is when you study the mcgillah
well you see that every single Nuance of
the Magilla is part of a mosaic it's
literally part of a puzzle when you have
a puzzle if you take out one piece you
don't have a puzzle anymore something is
missing in the picture
it may be a central part of the picture
maybe but it's a part of the picture
it's a it's a it's a mosaic it's like a
symphony you know if you remove certain
notes you don't have you don't have the
symphony a ballad has a certain amount
of notes that creates a song just like
in a body a healthy organism has all of
its diverse Limbs and organs and
together
they create what we call the Miracle of
Life a body has tens of trillions of
cells we have a duct there how many
cells do we have in the body you still
remember from University
somewhere between 50 60 70 trillion
cells once you hit that number
I don't know the difference between 40
40 trillion 50 trillion I don't know
what 50 trillion is but it's it's not no
it's it's crazy it's astounding
and every cell has its unique
functionality in the body right to
believe that that just happened randomly
by mistake without a designer is a
little absurd
but in any case each one is part of the
story
the same is true with history the same
is true with the Magilla so when you
read the Magilla you would think through
a party who cares why is that relevant
but you see how ultimately it will
become part of a very large
web I would say the spiritual ecosystem
where every part of the system is
essential to the balance and to the
functioning of our planet and the same
is true in the Magilla so the Magilla
emphasizes this point that mardukai went
every single day to see how she was it
somehow he sent under the story now at
first glance it's not because nothing
happened as a result it's not like one
day when Mordechai was walking there he
saw something the story happens
independently of him visiting there yes
later he's going to get involved in the
story when he's going to find out about
an assassination attempt and he's going
to tell Esther about the assassination
attempt of Bixon and sarish Lady he's
going to become part of the story
because when Esther hears that the
Jewish people are going to be
exterminated she summons him she sends a
message to him
I'm sorry but when Mordechai hears that
the Jewish people are going to be
exterminated he sends a message to
Esther and that's when they start
communicating about the plan but this
point that he went every single day
seems like a fine gesture but nothing
happens as a result of it so it would
almost seem like it is not essential to
the story
so it would seem
but there's a clue and there's always
clues that the Tanakh gives in order to
be able to decipher the significance and
meaning of things even if it's not
explicit and that is the word
doesn't say
every day and day now in English we
don't say it every day and Day in Hebrew
when you want to say that it was every
single day you don't say every single
day you say because
they like we would say day in and day
out Hashem not one day but every single
day
does it say anywhere else in the Magilla
these words twice
and the answer is it said once more
now we have a rule in the Tanakh it's
known as
means that when you have
Expressions words terms that are
employed in two different scenarios or
two different stories or two different
laws there's a connection between them
this is unique to the text of the Tanakh
for example if you're reading
if you're reading La havdil I don't know
you're reading Shakespeare
right or you're reading Dickens are you
reading Hemingway or rereading Kafka
whatever you're reading nobody in their
right mind is going to say oh in the
first chapter he used the word exhausted
and in chapter 33 or in another book he
also used that word so that
it's a very absurd way of reading a book
he used the word for this appropriate
words yet the second maishrabino gave
the Jewish people 13 methods of how to
learn Terror that's called you gimbal
Midas Shah Tyra and the dresch's band we
say them every morning in the beginning
of the Avenue
it's basically 13 methods it's
methodology the methodology the formulas
through which you decipher the meaning
of the text of the tamaq the first one
is kavakama the second one is called
with the in contemporary terms I would
Define it as copy paste
copy paste means in the olden days when
you use a typewriter for those who
remember the typewriter Club you
remember the typewriter with the ribbons
right
if I wanted to use the same word that I
used in the first chapter I had to
retype it but today on our word
processes our computers right if you
want to use that word what do you have
to do or that sentence or that paragraph
again copy paste sometimes it's cut
paste sometimes it's copy paste it's a
different type of editing the concept of
Xavier Chava is this when Hashem
dictated the terrorism
if he used the same word in two
different places they're not
disconnected it's a copy paste situation
so it was copied from here and pasted
there which means he wants to show that
there is a link and some connection
between these two stories or between
these two Mitzvahs it's a very
fascinating way of learning Eterna this
is called zereshava it shows you the
Precision not just of the message but
the words that are employed
that's why the balaturim very often one
of the things the bellatorium does in
Hamish it's a fascinating thing and this
is before he had a concordancia before
he had Google before
him who lived in the 14th and 15th
century
balatorium he lived in the 1300s and
then the beginning of the 1400s in in
Spain and in Germany so he has a safer
called balhature
and let's say there'll be a word let's
say there'll be a word kishura he'll
show you where that word is found in the
whole Tanakh
it may be one place it may be two places
and then he'll explain what's the
connection between the two
like they'll be the word venishma
venishma the word venishma in parashas
tatsava next week's Parsha I'll show you
the word venishment was also found in
the Magilla
what's the connection what's the big
word Vanessa means it was heard
you have NASA nishma impartialism
and then you have an Ishmael about the
king
he shows not it's copy paste it's a very
fascinating element of learning that
exists only within the tanach because
you can do it with other books it'll be
quite absurd and ludicrous
twice one I just pointed out but
there's another the next chapter the
next chapter the story moves on with has
a new Queen and he also appoints a new
prime minister the new prime minister is
hammer
and Haman reaches great prominence and
Renown to the point that akashvarish has
everyone showing him paying him humage
and and demonstrating their their
submission and respect and awe and
reverence for Hammer besides the one Jew
Mardi who refuses
and the McGillis says that mardukai
refuses to bow down to him so here the
story continues Esther Perry
they said to murder day in and day out
that he should bow down to Haman but he
would not obey
so now they went to Hamman and they
shared with him what's going on they
wanted to see who was going to Triumph
is it going to be Martin isn't going to
be Humma so here you have again the
words
so we have yeah
Mordechai is walking every single day
and the second time it says day in day
out is
that every day they were asking why he
does not bow down to Hama
this is a clue for the connection
between these two things that wouldn't
seem connected one is talking about
Mordechai visiting Esther every day and
one is the fact that every day when
Mordechai sees someone he doesn't Bow
Down
huh
so there's an interpretation of this
fasemus
in Purim tafreshlam of Zion that's 1877.
it's your third source
he gives perspective number one on the
connection between the yum yums more
importantly on the meaning why this is
part of the story
let's just remember the chronological
facts
party happened in the third year of his
kingdom
vashti was eliminated four years he's
looking for a queen in the seventh year
of his kingdom
he betrothed as he marries Esther
so that's from year three to year seven
it took quite a few years
Harman was appointed prime minister
after that but the decree against the
Jewish people only happened in the 12th
year of his reign
so there were many many years that
transpired between the Feast of
akashvarish until the decree of Haman
it's not like when you read the Magilla
it takes 20 minutes or half an hour
until it looks like the whole story
happened in a half an hour but the story
didn't happen in a half an hour the
story happened it took longer than a
decade took more than 12 years to become
a king and then to make a party and then
the seventh year Esther becomes the
queen and then the 12th year
Hamman comes out with the decree and
then another year passes until
it's all till the Jewish people would
have been killed and they saved
themselves so you're talking about many
many years the party in year three that
marriage to Esther in year seven and the
decree of Haman to exterminate the
Jewish people in year 12.
so now let's think about this when it
says that Mordechai walked every single
day
to visit Esther how long did this happen
for
that it happened for a week that he went
every day that it happened for a month
that he went every day so let's see what
the swasama says foreign
of the miracle that happens in other
words there are no details in the
Magilla that are just part of a history
lesson on the Persian Empire without
relevance to the story it's interesting
to discuss history but if it's in the
McGillis Esther it's part of the Purim
story if it's part of the Purim story
it's part of the miracle story so
there's not a detail in the Magilla that
if you don't study it well you will not
find how it is essential intrinsic or
part of
the total story it's not like you know
once we're talking about the palace let
me already throw in some more details
you know when you write a novel
writers like to give background
information discuss the color of uh of
what the weather was like that day
simply to draw you into the story you
know how long her hair was and what
color her hair was and what type of eyes
she had and what type of mood she had
and how tall she was and what type of
disposition you're familiar with this
genre
you don't see this very rarely we don't
know what moisturabena looked like we
don't know what a ramavino looked like
we don't know it would be interesting to
know but we don't know what my Shabana
looked like you have to think about my
should have been only in terms of his
his personality his contributions
sometimes the Tanakh will identify
physical features only when it's part of
the story for example of shalom's long
hair
of shalom's long hair becomes part of
the story ultimately it becomes his
death sentence
Joseph's handsomeness yosef's physical
beauty is an important part of the story
why the wife of patifa is so so uh drawn
to him Etc
but any detail is essential somehow to
the plot of the story so if someone says
if it's part of the Magilla it's part of
the Purim story
and then here is the question
Mordechai walking every day is very nice
he got to exercise he got to find out
what happens with Esther he took a walk
every day it's a great thing but is it
part of the story
so he says
but the truth is this is certainly a
very great story think about it
already four five years passed from when
she was taken
um
and yet Mordechai went every single day
for years to see how Esther is doing
because Mordechai it's not that
Mordechai went the first week when she
was there he went every day
young ones as long as she was in the
palace
went to see went to visit every day now
he couldn't necessarily go in
it was they were they were they were
located in a private place as we would
say today quarantined not because of
Corona but because of the crown they
were dealing with
because but he wanted to be in the
vicinity when you're in the vicinity you
could sometimes take a peek you hear you
see the atmosphere you get conversations
with people you know he must have built
some connections over there
so what the what the fasemus says what
the McGill is telling us is if Esther
became a king when
was in the seventh year of his Reign the
decree of Haman only happened in year
12. so you're talking about seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve it could be
anywhere we don't know the exact dates
but it could be four years five years
six years that Mordechai goes every
single day
to see
how Esther is doing
and you could see the way the hazard
explained this possible and in Rashi
that this was not just in the beginning
it continued throughout her Reign now
here is the question
I can understand when Esther was taken
there was dread
there was Panic there was anxiety there
was concern and Mordechai who felt so
responsible for Esther goes to look
after her that's very normal
but afterwards she became the queen
afterwards she became the queen
even later before that
obviously was extremely pleased with her
her life wasn't in danger she was the
mcgilla says whatever she wanted she was
given she was given special food she was
given special treatment because the King
was crazy about him so I can understand
the first week Mordechai was worried but
afterwards it was four years
until she became a queen he says maybe
four years five years could be even
afterwards he went
it seems like from the madrasium that he
went even afterwards so every day
her life is not life is not the king
loves her he's crazy about her he's
still going to choose her as a queen
that's why he says four or five years
because he's talking about from when she
was taken again she was taken
before she was chosen as Queen and he
started to search in the third year so
he says it's not true he went four years
or five years until she became a queen
and if she could if you continued
afterwards
and may have been more years
so if this is the case if this is the
case
the Fatima says let's think about this
Slim
every single day he went to see her
shall can I just trouble somebody for a
hummus for the blue homage I just want
to look up the Posse
in the back over there on the bottom
there's a blue hummus your mind
uh
none of the mcgillah the one on the
bottom there's a bluchemish
okay I'll get it
thank you so much
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foreign
so the Magilla says clearly
that Esther was taken to akashvarish in
the month of tevisa
in the seventh year of his Reign so they
were searching for girls all these years
from year three finally in the year
seven she was taken
and she obviously
bring the liking to her and then finally
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finally he decided to put the crown on
her and he made a big feast and she
became the queen
so now he's continuing to go there every
single day swasama says for four or five
years it could even be for longer
because I told you the decree happens in
the year 12.
so now let's think about this in the
beginning I understand the first week
he's anxious he's worried afterwards
she's loved by the king she becomes the
most powerful lady in the Persian Empire
what we call today the First Lady
so you would think
why does Mordechai need to go every
single day walk back and forth not even
going in it's not like he's going to
have tea he's going to
have a schmooz he's going to spend time
she was where she was
and they were very very serious
protocols where you can go when you can
go how you can go even though Mordecai
was a prominent person
nonetheless for years
he goes and the mcgillah says
I mean seven days a week
doesn't say most of the days you could
say every day which
means every single day Sunday Monday
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
shoppers
now you might say he wants to know how
she's doing yeah he cared about her but
now let's think about something else
mardekai was the leader of the Sanhedrin
was
considered the body of spiritual
leadership of the Jewish people that
already began in the days of Maisha
Maisha appointed 70 Partners seven the
elders scan them together with him it
was 71 and this became the body of the
son hadn't the Jewish Supreme Court so
to speak responsible for the spiritual
and physical welfare of the Jewish
people
and this went on for Generations
throughout the years in the desert and
then a narrative Israel every generation
there was a Sanhedrin and they were
literally the most important body
representing all of Claudia
every major dispute every major debate
the most complicated situations
etc etc mardikai in his generation was
the leader of the Sanhedrin which
essentially means he was the god of he
was the leader of the spiritual leader
of the generation
as I'll say clearly he was the greatest
teacher of the time because he was the
head of the Sunday used to appoint the
head of his son was like my shirabeno he
was like they represented known as the
Nasi was like why should have been so
you understand that this is a person
who was busy who was occupied who was
busy with the concerns of his people
Esther is safe a week past a month
passed two months past you could send
this you call it one of the baham of the
Yeshiva one of the guys who anyway has a
hard time sitting a whole day at the
table yeah you have a few of those yeah
you can go once a week or once a month
no
Mordechai did not send Ashley
because
himself for seven days you could think a
person who has the Jewish World on his
shoulders
Hashem is safe not only is he safe she's
the most powerful lady in the entire
Empire nobody's touching her the king
himself is completely in awe of her as
the Magilla says
at some point you could send an emissary
he did not
for years years
he woes every single day says why she
was an orphan well but
and he knew the pain
that Esther has of being in the home of
who was not only not Jewish he was the
Persian king he was very very far cry
from what Esther imagined for her life
and her trajectory and now she's stuck
over there even though she's given all
this honor but this does not what not
something that she chose Mordechai felt
this
and he knew that he needs to show up
every day to give Esther a message I'm
here I'm thinking about you if I could
get a glimpse of you I'll get a glimpse
of you I want to see what's happening I
want to know what you're doing what's
going on he says
and because of this the whole miracle
happened
because of this
so this verse
in the chapter 2 of Esther is not an
incidental verse by the way marduka used
to go there every day
says this verse is a key to the story
why did Mordechai have the privilege to
become a conduit for such a stupendous
Miracle to save the entire Jewish people
it's because for seven days a week for
four years or five years or six years
from when Esther was taken all the way
until he was appointed the prime
minister of Persia instead of Haman
which was later after the Purim story
happened and mardukai was already
brought into the palace but for four or
five or six years depends how you
calculated years Mordechai himself went
every single day not necessarily even to
help what can he help she's the queen of
the Persian Empire what is it going to
do he's going to bring her kugul he's
going to bring your troll into he's
going to cook Kasha for what is he going
to do for her whatever she needed she
got in the palace
simply as the past success
to show up
show up to know what's happening with
Esther to know what is going on with her
and this was this
is
this was the privilege that caused the
entire Miracle because
so this little Posse which doesn't seem
significant in the whole story because
it's not part of the plot
he says this is the story
because Mordechai had this type of
commitment and generosity of spirit and
courage and and love and sensitivity and
empathy
even though every excuse in the world
could have prevented him from doing it
but he didn't stop and he didn't even
send an emissary this is why he could
become a conduit for such a miracle
now
when we think about these words explains
the Magilla
it obviously has a very very profound
and relevant message because sometimes
you may know of a person maybe your own
child
maybe somebody else's child maybe a
friend may even be yourself
here's Esther a wonderful young woman
and she's trapped
on many levels she has a very good life
that other people would be jealous of
but from her own perspective
she's trapped in the house
so sometimes a person thinks what's the
benefit of showing up for this person
day in and day out day I'm not changing
anything
they are where they are they are who
they are fine give a call once a month
you want to come visit come once a year
come once in six months you have to
understand the circumstance not like you
have nothing else to do for nothing with
your life okay so you do this as I told
you Mordechai was the busiest person of
the generation
and many people would have been honored
to be in slooking to be his Emissary to
do it so sometimes a person thinks a
child has a challenge may be trapped in
the house of whatever that looks like
physically emotionally psychologically
spiritually trapped in certain
challenges trapped in a depression
trapped in addiction trapped in anxiety
trapped in various broken components
internally or externally where a person
may be
and this was not mordechai's biological
child Mordechai took responsibility for
us a person could sometimes think what's
the benefit of showing up for one person
who's in a particular situation a
difficult situation it's not like I can
go and take them out day in and day out
seven days a week and you also need some
time to breathe seven days a week he
goes
and yet
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this possock the Magilla says in many
ways is the core of the whole story
was
he was the person who said I'm going to
show up every single day there was
the zeid of the swasam as the first guy
remember
so he once said nobody ever won an
argument over me
he says one man once what happened
he says a youth came over to him and he
said I need to speak to you
I really don't have time if it's a fast
thing fight he said no I need a I need I
need
was one of the biggest rabbits in Poland
and he had a lot a lot of stones he had
a lot on his plate a lot on his head so
he said now is not a good time
so David looks at him and he says
20 years I found time to take care he
had a daughter who was very sick this
man 20 years I'm taking care of her and
you can't have a few minutes for me
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this Jew so to speak defeated him
because
he was telling him something very
profound you know we have all seen
situations some of you know this
firsthand there may be even more than
firsthand so to speak you have mothers
or you have fathers
who show up for their children who are
in difficult situations day in and day
out they don't always know what's going
to be
and it's very easy to get derailed to
get discouraged to say you know every
day I'm going to show up with food every
day I'm going to show up with a love
every day I'm going to show up with a
telephone call every day I'm going to
show up with a card every day I'm going
to be in good spirits it's already going
on for years and years Let It Go
because you don't always see the results
you don't always see the consequences
and it becomes very very frustrated
sometimes there are children teenagers
or different ages that are struggling
and a person says you know fine I'll
take you out we'll go on a vacation for
a few days let's fix the problem and
that's it but sometimes you're dealing
with things that are very very deep
you're dealing with traumas that are
profound you're dealing with pain that
is profound Mordechai teaches the
consistency that every day who showed up
and he told Esther you're not alone
not only did it change everything for
Esther but the whole story happened
because of that because of that he could
be a conduit to save the whole world
so people they often get discouraged I
just want to see the results and let's
move on with life and come on get out of
your room snap out of this meshagas
become a normal person be productive I'm
up five in the morning you should be up
five in the morning okay we'll hike in
takiat park 6 30 you could be already
making breakfast
go to sleep early and have abnormal
productive life
oh
and yes everybody wishes that and
ourselves and on others what Mordechai
teaches is a specific paradigm
and that is
he didn't know what's going to happen
how is he going to know what's going to
happen she was taken he didn't know this
is before remember this is before there
was any Purim drama we're reading it in
the Magilla we already know you know
it's going to end up with hamantashan
and a big party but when he's walking
every day to the Palace what is he
walking towards nothing a girl that's by
the king and he shows up there's no
there's no drama here there's no Fanfare
nobody's honoring him nobody's panning
him on his back nobody is rewarding him
there's no convention to celebrate him
to give him a plaque wow you're such a
nice guy he just knows what Esther needs
more than anything else is attachment
she needs to know that somebody's
thinking about her even if he can't go
in
obviously if he did it for five years
I'm sure she figured it out
sometimes sometimes you reach out to a
child to a student to a friend they're
not capable of receiving the love I
don't want I'm not in the mood
I'm not interested in you it's very easy
to get turned off you say what you're
not in the mood I'm also not in the mood
I'm much less in the mood trust me
shuffler
what happens is we get lured in
to the Brokenness instead of remaining
in a position
of firm leadership
responsibility and love it's a very
normal thing
but do you see here for Mordechai
sometimes spiritually emotional a person
is not even capable of receiving
anything
they come into the kitchen
and all you want to do is give them a
Misha Barak and not a nice mishabara
you want for me to be able to cultivate
my highest angels and smile and welcome
the person when the response may be
something far far less than I would love
last time I bought something it was
rejected and thrown in my face how much
can a person deal with this so some
people shut down very fast and it's a
normal response
what Mordechai taught here is what real
attachment looks like what real
leadership looks like not that it's not
painful it may be very painful but the
person who understands what Brokenness
is
said what she needs more than anything
else is to know somebody cares
because one day
that's going to be internalized now in
Esther's case obviously she was not
emotionally estranged from she cherished
and the gamart is even an opinion that
they were married to each other and that
marriage had to experience the rupture
because she was taking there's nothing
more than I can do about it
but the lesson from this is in all cases
where somebody's trapped even in a big
callous and a big passo black castle and
a big Palace and it may be very tempting
and luring mardukai doesn't even send
Emissary surpass them the head of the
Sanhedrin to go every single day for one
girl who's trapped not send anybody else
Shabbos and Sunday and Tuesday and yum
Tiff in the middle of the days I would
say even Purim but this was before Purim
but because of this there was put in but
even I'm poor what would become Purim
mardikai found time why so that Esther
knows somebody cares
so when you're doing this for somebody
when you're doing this for somebody and
sometimes you got to do it for yourself
too
you got to check in every day how you're
doing you're doing this for a child for
a student for a friend for a relative
for a neighbor of whatever age and
whatever gender whatever situation and
circumstances
this this Posse in the Magilla is really
the core of the story that's why
the whole world was changed that's why
the whole miracle happened don't
underestimate this
it's easy it's easy again to become very
annoyed and depleted before is a sheer I
did it a month I did it two months I did
it three months no
reciprocity
but that's understandable but it comes
from a lack of understanding when a
person is trapped they're trapped Esther
couldn't reciprocate at the moment she
couldn't
held on to her emotionally speaking
sometimes people are held down by
certain situations I would love to
emancipate myself I don't even know how
to
but just because I'm not free it doesn't
mean you should not be free
just because I am downtrodden and
wretched it doesn't mean you have to
become wretched so this takes a vision
of deep deep expansiveness to understand
who Esther is what she needs now
the Yum Yum now becomes clear
um
continues
they told Mordechai every day why are
you driving Harmon crazy
because every day he went to the Palace
because he didn't miss a day he was that
he got Harmon angry every single day
which was the beginning of haman's
defeat
by the high not bowing down to Homan
that is what triggered haman's animasity
that's why he wanted to destroy the
Jewish people and that's what brought
out his evil and that's why he was
defeated why was martyr every day to
make Haman sugar
in other words to defeat the evil of
Amman because he went every day to the
Palace
are not random copy paste this is Xavier
Shava because
he went to the Palace so something else
happened on a different realm in a
different neighborhood in a different
hour but also because what else happened
Mordechai had something going on every
single day he went to visit every day
Esther
and every single day Haman
was made to feel a little smaller
because of Mordechai to the point that
this Grand
anti-semite was ultimately defeated why
was Hezekiah for this
every day haman's ego was deflated more
and more so every day they would tell
him no maybe today you can appease
someone maybe today you can appease the
crocodile
appeasement Churchill said is feeding
the crocodile in the hope that he'll eat
you last
eat you he'll eat you the question is
when I'm not in the business of
appeasement
so why did he manage to do this to be
able to defeat Haman from something of a
completely different story
because yum Yumi had the courage and the
love and the affection to be able to be
there for that lonely Jewish girl who
was an orphan and who was now trapped in
the home and had nobody had no father
and no mother and no support and this
person was there
now you would think you would think stop
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it's it's a nice thing look at the last
posseck of the Magilla when you look at
the last possock of the Magilla how does
it end the gemara says
everything follows the end what's the
end
the last Posse in the Magilla gives
somewhat of uh I'm not going to say a
eulogy but somewhat of a goodbye
farewell to mardikai our hero and it
says
a lot of people don't concentrate at
this poster because it's after a fast
tiny sister and they're hungry I'm alive
but this is a very powerful person
was the second in commanders this is
already after the victory against Harmon
mardukai was appointed prime minister
this is years later he's the now the
second in command
he's a Godly he's great among the Jews
he's accepted by most of his brothers
there's always a few people who don't
like you
the evanesville writes there's always a
few people who are not going to like you
you could save the Jewish people but
there's always going to be a nishta who
says
they make with their nose I don't know
how you say it in English they have an
expression in English huh
snub your nose and you this shit's
better if I climbed in US
foreign he inquired he searched for the
welfare of his people
and he spoke peacefully to all of his
children
now let's think about this
this is the extolling the virtue of
Mardi what was his greatness so I
understand he was the Prime Minister of
Persia that's a pretty big
accomplishment for a Jew Mordechai
becomes a prime minister
I remember when Joe Lieberman the
senator of Connecticut was running
remember
on the ticket of Al Gore Al Gore wanted
to be president and Joe Lieberman Joseph
Lieberman would be the vice president
and it was a very interesting phenomenon
because if it would have worked out it
would have been the first Jewish vice
president in the history of the United
States of America
and as usual some Jews were very proud
and some Jews were against it
as always
so uh
the anecdote goes that Al Gore lost and
Joe Lieberman lost and that night Joe
Lieberman came home to his wife Hadassah
her name is Hadassah and she greeted him
at the door and she said don't worry Joe
don't be dejected in this home you will
always be vice president
foreign
I
I was once in Miami
I was at a lecture there by yohudi
conference and I needed to get a plane
back and my taxi didn't show up and I
was a little late because the lecture
was went late I had to rush to the
airport and suddenly I see uh Senator
Joe and adasa Lieberman on the street
and they have a driver
so even though maybe it wasn't the right
thing I went over to them and I said you
were going to the airport they were
going so I said can I uh
as they say
can I get a trump Gesundheit so in the
car I turned tadasa Lieberman and I said
you know I've been saying this joke for
years about you
and I don't know if it's true or not so
can I verify it's a great story
but I want to verify
if it happened or it didn't happen
so she said what's the story so I told
her and her husband the story
so she said it's a good story
whatever that means but in any case why
am I talking about oh so mardukai
becomes the prime minister of Egypt
he's a Godly among the Jewish people
that's pretty powerful
most Jews like him you know what not bad
most Jews like him I'm good I like him
too Doris tovlama he dedicates his life
to bring out the good and his people to
to do anything good for this people but
that's not the end what's the summation
the last words
he could speak peacefully shalom means
peacefully and some words wholesomeness
to all of his children
so they have an Ezra writes over there
he says sometimes people who are very
big and prominent
for the world there are celebrities and
heroes but their own children
feel alienated from them
the greatness of Mordechai was
he was the Prime Minister of Persia that
was the Empire of the time
he was he just saved the whole nation
but the Magilla says now let me tell you
the greatest thing the greatest thing
was that all of his children all of his
descendants
felt close to him they felt a
peacefulness in his presence they felt
accepted and embraced by him they were
at peace when they saw him he was at
peace when he saw them and it says
all of his children
sometimes you have children who give you
what we call Easy nachas
they come into the room and mommy is
glowing tati is glowing valedictorian
Puma mcgear said the report cards are
glowing the shutdown are knocking down
the doors already for seven years from
the brist already knocking on the door
you like my humor Hindi
but then you have
sometimes it's a little more complicated
you have that child looks like ended up
in Australia's domain
the power of mordechers
there was a sense of Peace of Oneness
connection of attachment with every
single one of his descendants and that
becomes the summation of the whole
megillah you would think on asking who
was world renowned such a world how does
he have time for his children he's not
parochial he's not even local he's in
the palace he has to run the country he
has to make sure another woman doesn't
come to the Sea
comes the Magilla and says I'll tell you
all the great things about Martin now
I'll tell you the greatest thing about
martikai he didn't forget his children
all of them
comes the madrish and puts these two
things together
if you see second to the last Source
Esther
this is
the courtyard of the home with a women's
State and this madrish is the source of
this
and when it says Hashem tells doesn't
necessarily mean there was a voice from
heaven that speaks to Mordechai one day
it means that there was an inner
Consciousness that Mordechai appreciated
that came from Hashem
Hashem says
you were busy seeking the welfare of one
Soul Esther
Esther an anonymous Jewish girl Affinity
a beautiful girl
a wonderful person one so and one Soul
was taken and air you gave your life to
look out for this one song
I swear to you
um
at the end you're going to be looking
out and guaranteeing the welfare of an
entire nation
so you would think it's just a segula
connection you walked out for one person
I'm giving you a scar not as Gula it's
essentially connected
because the value of a nation is that
it's made up of individuals
and if I couldn't care less about an
Esther
so then with more numbers there's just
more attention more Paparazzi more
WhatsApp more whatsapps but essentially
if you care about Esther this means
you're capable of tuning in to the value
of a soul which is infinite
so consequentially
you're the one who's going to ensure the
welfare of an entire nation it's
fascinating because we see the same
thing with moisture albino the story of
him shepherding the Flack and one goat
ran away and he picked up that goat and
the story of David hamelik the way he
chilled and both of them became Timeless
leaders of the Jewish people that
changed the trajectory of our people
Merchant turned us into a nation and
David turned us into a United Nation
and now after the destruction of the
base
who saved the Jewish people
so you have here the concept and a a a
very profound salute and I'm going to
use this opportunity to salute all those
mothers sitting here or listening or who
listen and fathers and mothers mothers
fathers and other individuals who who
who their consistency
to be there with people loved ones
or other people that come into their
their sphere of influence
consistently
and only you know and Only Heaven knows
what that takes out of you
because it's the consistency day in day
out because and it's not like I'm
showing up and somebody's giving me
medals and it's not like I'm showing up
and I'm seeing tremendous success and
it's not like I'm showing up and I'm
changing the world and I'm saving the
situation
I'm showing up with a smile I'm showing
up with a roll of sushi I'm showing up
with uh iced coffee I'm showing up with
a milkshake I'm showing up with a piece
of cheesecake I'm showing off with some
unhealthy lotion and cheese or lasagna
I'm showing up with a smile with with a
poem with love with gesture I came back
from a store and I was thinking about
you here's some chocolate that I picked
up
I'm showing up with my best and most
loving self to tell you you're not alone
and our relationship is unconditional
and I believe in you even at moments
when you don't believe in yourself
and the people who do this and do this
day in day out know very well what it
takes out of them
because it's not rewarded immediately
and not even in the same year old ways
and sometimes not even in the same five
years and sometimes not even in the same
decade although we always want to try to
hasten things up but as some things are
out of our control
and this is the value of this
that the medrish and this fasamas are
showing how this one possible is
capturing a major theme in the middle
that you can easily Miss morduka is a
hero he's brilliant he's wise he's
courageous that's all true he's Fearless
he leads the world him and Esther you
know Power Team they take down a Hitler
gavaldik it's all true
but there's that one little detail of
who Mordechai really was Mordechai was a
person who walked every day and remember
he didn't have a car
he didn't have a chauffeur I don't know
if he went on a donkey or he went on a
camel he went on a horse
means he walked
every single day
why not the Savory couldn't to show up
I'm here
and you know you're in the kitchen and
you may have a daughter struggling or a
son struggling or a nephew or a niece or
a student or a friend and they come in
and they come in and the dress is not
perfect and they're coming from many
many hours of sleep and a part of you or
part of me you know you want to implode
or explode
which is all normal it's all
understanding you know my Reptilian
Brain is triggered by your Reptilian
Brain you're trying to survive and I'm
also trying to survive
and that ability to be able to have that
expansiveness of murder not by
eliminating the other parts of your
personality feeling it having compassion
for it breathing into it but then saying
and now it's important to ask myself
what do I really really want do I want
to connect more to this person or do I
want to say something that will
ultimately create a rupture in our
relationship and that ability at that
moment to show up I want to know how you
want I want you to feel that I want to
know how you are without agendas without
any agendas and without figuring out and
games and tricks
some of us are good at
until your kids teach you it doesn't
work
it could be undervalued and
underestimated this pasta gives us the
kayak
and says mardikai did it and because of
that he could defeat Haman because of
that God said you did it to this person
you're the right person to do it to an
entire nation
it's in those lonely visits because I
promise you when he did this five years
five years straight he didn't know
there's going to be a share about this
in the year 2023.
he didn't know he didn't know anything
how would he know Esther was trapped it
was a tragic story he had a a girl or
even a wife and she was taken how are
you supposed to feel
he went he showed up
he didn't know what's going to happen
but because of that look
God knew what's going to happen it got
recorded in the Magilla and the mission
of the Magilla says Hashem says you're
the one who's going to be able to save a
whole nation
when you save a whole nation your
children are going to be at peace with
you
we've all seen in history and we see it
today sometimes people who are famous
and big it's very nice for the world but
their children suffer
their children don't feel that
connection
and sometimes people especially in the
name of their own insecurities they ride
on the status of the respect you get
from everybody else and it compensates
for the lack of a relationship with
family and it really it destroys
destroys people in a very deep way
that was the greatest compliment of
Mordechai he became the greatest Jewish
every one of us children ah
they felt that closeness they felt that
peace how did he manage to do it because
he didn't start off as Martin he started
off going every day to the Palace to
think about Esther
and here the medrish gives us one final
detail which really completes the
picture if you look at the last Source
it says Esther above
sixth chapter of membership and Esther
and Rashi also quotes
says there was something else going on
um
how is it possible that this sadakis he
knew us he raised this girl she was an
orphan she was in his house
how is it possible that this sadaka
should get married to an oral anara
literally means somebody uncircumcised
but essentially it's a metaphor for how
is Esther supposed to end up with
something bizarre here like this is
God's humor
Ella said
Mordechai had not knowledge but of what
you call premonition what is it called
the intuition intuitive in Germany in
German there's a word that's called
Spitz and finger gefil you know which
spits and finger Phil means a sixth
sense it's a feeling that the edge the
edge of your nail
spits and finger he had he had an
intuition of Sixth Sense
Esther was at sadakis how in the world
from all the women had to like her
instead of building a Jewish Family like
she wanted this is where she ends up
mardukai knew there's a story Beyond him
there's a different story that he can't
figure out doesn't have to wrap his
brain around it something big is going
to happen and Esther's position is going
to prove
to be the key factor
so Mordechai walking there every day he
couldn't predict it he couldn't
orchestrate it he couldn't imagine it
he's supposed to know what was going to
do
you think Jews in 1931 could imagine
what Hitler is going to do
who can imagine you know hindsight is 20
20.
foresight is sometimes zero zero
I just made that up but it's true it's
good yeah
you know you could see life from the
back not from the front
from the back you could look at it so
why the heck couldn't predict but every
day he went there to visit to see what's
happening he was present he knew I don't
know the whole story but there's
sometimes a story completely Beyond you
what do you do you don't have to guess
you don't have to understand show up
be there be there
we don't know why it happened we don't
know why Esther was taken it was a
tragedy we don't know how it's going to
work out
but he understood there's some meaning
here beyond what I have to wrap my brain
around like he tells Esther later
I once again means not I don't know who
knows some things are Beyond us that's
why we celebrate Purim
you don't have to know if you want to
figure out everything about your life
everything about your child's life
everything about your marriage
everything about your past
trust me you use Das it's sometimes a
very poor instrument through which to
figure these great things out
but what did I do he didn't run away he
didn't Retreat he said so let me be
present and patient and consistent and
loving
and indeed his presence there
allowed him ultimately to hear what
Vixen and Sarah had in Plato assassin
ultimately at the right moment Esther
could send them a message because he was
hanging out there and he could start the
process more like I could send Esther a
message and she could send them back a
message
I want to share a story with you
I want to conclude the class with this
story
the story happened
you know
history history books have recorded much
not all but much of what happened in the
Holocaust
and the results of the German war
against the Jewish people and against
the world that began in 1939 what's much
less known as the tragic fate of Russian
jury
even though Stalin killed more people
than Hitler but because of the magnitude
of Hitler's actions and the systematic
genocide that so to speak took front
page of the news and Stalin's atrocities
and what generally happened in Russia
is much much less known the suffering of
the Jewish people in Russia before the
world war and after the world went
during the World War
there was a Jew living in babrusk
babrosk is a city in what they used to
call White Russia Vice rusland
Belarus why is it called White Russia
you know you don't know
wow okay
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you don't have to know
but do your homework why is it called
White Russia why Vice today it's Belarus
it used to be called Vice Ruslan White
Russian
my Bryce was a very famous Jewish
Community prominent leaders there was
great Jews in Barbados
like all of Jews of Belarus most of them
were decimated and murdered by the
Germans during the second World War
this Drew lived in babrest his name was
the margolin
as the second world war broke out and in
June 1941 Hitler invaded the Soviet
Union and his Blitzkrieg astounded
unexpected because he had a peace treaty
Russia and Germany had a peace treaty
known as the molotov rib
Accords the foreign minister of Russia
and Germany made a peace treaty they
split a pollen between them and Stalin
did not expect in June 41 for Hitler to
invade the Soviet Union
Russian casualties exceeded any other
country
because of the success of Germany
initially in Russia and like many
citizens
was drafted into the Russian army
most people who were drafted the Russian
army second world war never returned
the casualties of the Russian army the
millions and millions and millions crazy
numbers
he left a wife her name was nakama
nakama margolin and she had three
children
she had a baby boy Mama's a baby and two
daughters
were around nine or ten years old one
daughter was named the older daughter
was Minna and the younger daughter was
toiva
toiba
Minato and a small baby a child of a
male
ingala a boy
the Germans were invading Belarus
she realized that they will not survive
here
you know the Jews debated because in the
first world war the Germans were nice
many of the Germans were nice so the
many Jews thought they'll stay they'll
have it better under the Germans and
under the Russians but she realized that
she won't survive so she decided to
escape like many Jews to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan was safe the Germans did not
reach there to the city of Tashkent
Tashkent had a larger Jewish Community
was more concentrated but it was a long
journey so she took her three children
her husband was drafted to the Army she
didn't know where he was minatova and
the baby boy and they started the
journey to Uzbekistan
the hunger at that time in Russia was
devastating
people were dying from Hunger day in and
day out yum yum there was such a
shortage of food and indeed nakama too
had very very little food and in this
long journey she had barely morsels of
bread and most of them she gave to her
children so they would survive
until one night
she couldn't bear the hunger anymore
and she went into a faint and she died
from starvish
this was on the way
to on the way to Tashkent on the way to
Uzbekistan so they had two little girls
with a little baby boy to fend for
themselves the oldest midnight I think
was 10 years old a little another girl
Tova and and a baby boy
and after a few weeks the baby boy
didn't survive either he also died
so these two girls buried their mother
and then they buried their brother
and you know talk about being alone in
the world
and this is all in 1941 42.
so they're alone so there was some good
people you know Russian Gentiles who met
them and saw what's going on and they
put them in an orphanage
there was what they call today segment
orphanage that was run by the by the
Soviet government
it was 600 kilometers from Tashkent
that's around 300 400 miles from
Tashkent where there was a Jewish
Community understand how far that is
that's where they put them because there
was an orphanage that was available and
these two poor girls were growing up but
at least they had a bed and they had
food they could survive
and they spent there all the years of
the war until the end of the war which
was 1945. the second world war came to
an end
and hear these girls are in this
orphanage literally alone and the war is
over
so the leader the woman who ran the
orphanage came over to them and said now
the war is over
so whoever has any family we're getting
in touch with family
and they're going back to family do you
have any family
she said you know our story our father
is gone he was in the war
our mother died our brother died we
don't have anybody we're the only ones
so he said is there maybe an uncle an
aunt a cousin a grandparent they said we
have but
we we're going to find them so the the
woman says do you have any recollection
of an address an address a home address
of anybody who may be related to you or
any Jew who might be interested in you
and they're thinking an address where
they're supposed to have an address from
and so she says listen don't worry if
you don't find anybody you'll just stay
here
you'll stay here until you're you know
till you're adults and you'll make a
life for yourself
Mena knew very well that means complete
disconnection from the Jewish people for
eternity for her and her sister
so she's trying to Rack her brain does
she know an address of any person
and then she remembers something that
happened when she was a little girl
they grew up in barbarous they had a
farm
the farms in Belarus produced good
chickens and good geese and good turkeys
now some of you still do this some of
you remember it from your mother and
grandmother they did not use oil on
pesach what did they use Schmaltz and
how do you make Schmaltz
from the fat yeah from the fat of the
chicken or the geese of the turkeys Baba
gribinous
better than macaroons much better
how do you compare people don't know
what they're missing ah your fleshoek
yeah that's the point of pesach to be
flaccia no ice cream no pizza we all
lose weight
they produ their Farm had such good uh
geese that their mother
would make Schmaltz every year before
pesach and send it to her sister she had
a sister living in Leningrad Leningrad
is Russia proper Russia the capital
Petersburg became Leningrad it was the
capital for many years till it went to
Moscow and her sister drazer name was
Raskin I knew her husband his name was
Joseph Raskin they lived in Leningrad
and she would send Schmaltz to Lenny
grabs her his sister would be able to
have a gishmaker base how do you send
Schmaltz from Lenny Grant
her mother would wrap up the schmalts
and diapers
and then you'll forgive me she took the
diapers and put it into a wooden box
sealed the box and sent them on the
ground one day she was sending the
Schmaltz to Lenny Grant so they went to
the post office and there was a lot Lara
Schmaltz from the whole pesach for her
and other families so her mother asked
her Mina if she could come with her to
the post office schlepping the Schmaltz
he said of course
so they went to the post office and the
man of the post office takes it and he
says this schmalt is going to leak
it's going to leak from the wooden box I
am not sending this to Leningrad
and the mother says it's not leaking
it's sealed it's fine and it'll be a
little wet no we don't send such a thing
you need to go and get money more
diapers
to wrap up the schmaltzer doesn't leak
and they got into an argument the mother
was very frustrated and annoyed it was a
long walk it wasn't easy there was this
is before Amazon I don't know why they
didn't call Amazon but apparently there
was no Amazon in the 1930s to send your
Schmaltz from Belarus to LA negrath
to schlep it all back home was
impossible so the mother looked at Mina
and said you know what you stay here
watch the Schmaltz it was a precious
commodity I'll go home I'll walk home
fast I'll get more diapers I'll come
back and we'll wrap it again
so Minna had to stay two hours in the
post office waiting for mommy to come
back now what do you do for two hours
yeah remember the kids didn't have
phones at the time for two hours we know
today what people would do for two hours
they would watch my Clips but then
or a class on double speed and then you
would finish after two hours maybe
triple speed
but then you were to sit and you had to
actually be present so Minna said what
did I do for two hours I was steering at
the box of smaltz what did the Box have
on it the address of Dre zaraskin and
lenigrad
for two hours all she was steering was
an address
and she said I remember the address
and she told the woman running the
orphanage the address
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so she sent the letter to this address
to her aunt her mother's Sister dreza
nakama's Sister
and saying you have two nieces they
don't have anybody maybe you want to
pick them up and raise them
but the raskins already moved to another
city to another house
they weren't living there anymore
so when the letter came it took a long
time for it to come when it came there
was nobody to receive it
one day they had a son
who you know when you move houses
sometimes you don't remember and you go
back to the old house whatever happened
to you
I remember when I moved to Muncie from
one house to another house for a few
weeks I was going to the old house and
then I walked in on somebody else's
family so I learned my I learned my
lesson
but uh
I almost walked in but uh
yeah like Hadassah Hadassah Lieberman
a son a son of the Rascals Elena grad he
forgot one day that they moved so he
went off on the train station near his
old house
so he's walking by his old house and he
realizes this is not but then he says
you know what let me check in the
mailbox maybe there's mail they moved
three months earlier so maybe there's
mail no nobody was expecting some
exciting mail but you never know so he
goes he takes out the mail and he sees a
letter addressed to the raskins and
Lenny grad from an orphanage 600
kilometers from Tashkent somewhere deep
in Russia you know Russia never ends
right Russia is a continent that ends
and that's why nobody could defeat
Russia it's impossible Napoleon Hitler
they always they always have weirdo
withdraw to
he brings home this letter and he shows
it to his parents
I say that's it we're going and he was
sent to the orphanage and he picked up
these two girls
and they were reunited with their uncle
and Aunt and later they escaped Russia
and they moved with them this was a
Chabad family and Tova married a fellow
by the name of altice and minaf married
a fellow by the name of Rifkin and they
both built beautiful beautiful families
in Israel I know some of the children
who they were reunited with with their
uncle and Aunt after the war
when I when I uh when I heard the story
the first time
you know I thought to myself
so many aspects of life it's impossible
to know the story
hindsight 2020 foresight zero zero
sometimes one one
when she was steering there two hours in
a Post Office right what would you do
for those two hours
you'll be upset at Russia be a pastor
post office be upset at the system for
good reason it's annoying it's
frustrating
nobody knows
it was those two hours that literally
changed his family despite the
unfathomable tragedies which we also
don't understand you know you say why
does it have to happen this way I don't
know why they have to lose their mind I
don't know
this is what mardukai understood so well
saying when he went there every day
he didn't know why Esther married this
person he didn't know what we know we
know why Esther ended up in his house we
know she saved the Jewish people what he
did know is
I don't have to know everything in order
to show up
have a beautiful week and a wonderful
week and a lot of I have an announcement
next week I'm in London next week I'm in
London so there's no class
the week afterwards is Purim
Tuesday okay
so we have we're taking now a little
break
for two weeks the week after my nephew
is getting married in New Orleans
so we're taking a three week break
okay
you'll go to the previous classes from
previous years and you'll hear you'll
have 20 classes
you were there the classes you were
there you're gonna just remember
no
the only place that they didn't take
over is what became Belarus so as white
men they were Freedom no no war there
um or the cons by the Mongolians the
cons wow okay
amazing wow
wow
okay okay
hi thank you again
remind you that's the reason that I have
such an affinity right last year yeah
in my life that still responded to an
email even though you have a thousand
emails a day when many other abundant so
disappointed me at a specific time in my
life and I was like okay I give up and
you send the most beautiful beautiful
email that Mom has saved my life Wow
can you hear me
wow thank you so much
18 months over I just want to tell you
you're inspiring me because I get a lot
a lot of emails and I'm behind
but I learned from this class
that you have to show up and answer even
if it's difficult but I need help with
that yeah
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wow