Shabbos M'vorchin Adar - M'shenichnas Adar.....Let The Good Times Roll

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com you ready are you good okay good evening everybody uh welcome to uh an evening with rabbi gladstein or shira that he's going to be giving it's an honor and a privilege for me to be here again and and welcome you uh i did it last year uh i want to thank rabbi poston and you bernie for sponsoring and arranging this evening rabbi gladstein who i think many people know him uh because of his work uh uh and in this room that he posts online at anytime.com and anybody who listens to this you and knows that it's a treat to listen to her because he's he's such a great market cheer it's going to be even a bigger treat to listen to him in person because he's actually a lot of fun to listen to i want to besides the all the accolades that i could mention um i will just want to mention too right glastine is the uh muradasa of shulin cedarhurst uh called quilos abbas israel and he he started there about two years ago yeah and they they've accomplished they were able to raise about three million dollars to build a new show in the last year so uh i think no no a lot of credit goes to the rabbi and the people who believe in him who uh wanted to support that effort in addition to all the other great things that he is rabbi gladstein is now also a machado's farm he just came out this is a new book called magdharakiya this is about adar purim and mcgillicester you're beginning you're going to be getting a taste of it tonight because the topic for tonight of course is the joy of ada or how to how to infuse the joy of other into the whole year this safer which we've had some fun kind of dealing with the publishers will be available hopefully by odds are here in israel as well so anybody who's interested you know you can pre-order it or or anything like that it is in hebrew it's not in english but it has your great care has been taken to make sure that the voice of rabbi gladstein comes through in the safer itself in the room and the safer so without further ado let me introduce rabbi daniel gladstein [Music] thank you repsol for that very warm introduction uh sal is obviously a hakam because tell smart people exaggerate so i appreciate the introduction and i'm sure my mother appreciates it as well um i want to thank his wife roz for their gracious hospitality and having us over the last week and for arranging the trip and making it possible yet again for another year and uh for giving us really a time of our lives so hashem should bless you and your wife and your whole family with only happy occasions i want to thank of aaron poston for arranging tonight's event and for sponsoring of ibanez who are always at the forefront of harbat satora here in artistral and in various venues around the world so we wish of aaron hatzlach and all of his endeavors want to welcome my good friend of david kalas and all of our friends who have come this evening let's begin with the following the well-known gemara massachusetts the gemara says um the son of sheila said in the name of rav that kisham just like when ab comes in we diminish our joy in the month of adar enters we increase our joy and that's a very curious word when adar enters what does it mean when adar enters why doesn't it say mithilas adar birois aadar what does it mean when adar enters how does the month enter where does it enter into well refrain is quoted as saying we we just visited him the other day is quoted as saying that misha nichnas adar only begins the second day of rosh the first day of rosh is still shavat surabhyam says it does not begin until the first day of rosh so don't worry you don't need to be happy yet i know you're getting nervous you could continue to be miserable for yet one more extra day does not begin until the second day of rosh chairs according to however come to banish high the venezuela is in the safer alderaan are not up to the sheet yet and the banishka writes misha nichnas it doesn't say me shahid when it reaches means already from the of we already have to start increasing our joy says the baneshkai in parashat this week's parashah and the safer alderaan so according to the banishkai yeah you could start getting nervous you would have to start being happy already from the moylar of roshada as well as i once heard this in the name of the base israel actually today we are on and our good friend of josh wander said you know you want to go to the cover of the garage i said the carrot i didn't know the garage i'm one of the only people who has the key so he opened up a cave and in the cave are the farm of all the garages buried narcissism maybe there's one in the khatsara of gare and the basis troll also says what does it mean and now we're going to start really sweating already from shabbos mavar kim we already begin our increase in simcha so now we're getting you know the heat is uh being turned up already from shabbos rosh from the shabbos we begin our joy however it's brought in the name of the men the monk that it says when other comes in we increase our joy that means we already have to start being happy before we just add it up a notch when adar comes so says the mooncatcher already rosh dashvat we start to be happy we just crank it up a little bit by dash so already sort of in the spirit we're ready at least close enough according to most opinions and certainly according to the salazar we're ready within the arms reach of purim so we want to speak about the topic of simcha and how to extend the joy of purim and the joy of adar throughout the year there's a very interesting custom that we all have it's actually brought in the ramah we know when we make half-dollar sales we say and glory where is that apostol mcgillis esther it's one of the forbes of gula that we all say out loud you ever wonder it's not purim saturday night shabbos has left why in the world are we invoking a passage from mcgill esther on what shabbos why invoke the passage and the truth is that this is not the only mention in reference to purim in havdalah you know i uh maybe was not so aware of this and i recently maybe upgraded my practice writes that when you smell basamin you should smell what hadasm myrtles says rama you're not required to smell myrtles but it's better so i sort of this was something i i overlooked it's not an outright obligation but certainly it's a minhog that's based in halakhah to try to put myrtles in your basam you know if you're going to keep this is an easy one to to upgrade to to put hadassim in the basame okay it's very nice it smells good so the last year this year took out my hadassim from the lulav you know you cut it up and you put it in the salmon box very nice and the question is why smell hadassem i invite you he's safe look in the basif and they serve says well if you look at the pasak and yashaya the pulsar so in the context of shabbos it says hadassim so therefore we smell hadas because in the context of the navy yashaya speaking about shabbos he mentions hadassim but how interesting it is that what is this pasik referring to takas hana burush the gemara magilla darshans who is the nazis who is the thorn mordechai pad who's the serpad interesting that the posik that we learn out to smell hadassim is specifically referring to the salvation of purim again another mention and another reference to purim in havdalah but it doesn't stop here we know in havdalah we use two wicks two nairas the sam soifer writes in the droshos sam soy that the two neroys the two wicks of havdallah are a reference and a ramez to the two jewish heroes mordechai and esther so halloy davarhu it can't be for naught it's not a coincidence there must be some important connection between the procedure and ritual of abdullah and purim if you look at abdullah there's so many references and ramazan to purim you have somehow you have the indian the concept of using hadassim you have the two neroys which is a reference to purim so what exactly is this important connection that every saturday night as we're about to take leave of shabbos the last thing on our mind is mcgillis esther and the yumpta for purim every matsaay shabbas what do we do we invoke purim why invoke purim every matsai shabbos who made the statement interesting name she last know is that a man's name i mean i guess usually in the gemara it always tells you the name of the father amma rav yehuda breider of shmuel barsheelas what kind of name is sheilas why was rabbi hudo the only one who said the salah and until rab yehudah what happened everybody walked around mourning during the month of adar was why is rabbi the baalha memorial why is he the one who made this statement another question and then we'll try to uh investigate this very important subject in that half torah that we lean on a tightness from the navi yashaya the passage says that god made a name for himself says the gemara magilla when did god made it make a name for himself zu mikura magillah through the establishment of the reading of the magilla god made a reputation and a name for himself now if you were to ask me which book in the tanakh least contributes to the name of god if you had to say god made a name for himself the last book that i would come up with through which god made a name for himself is the one book that god's name does not appear mcgillis esther how could the navy say how could the gemara say that how did god make a name for himself through magilla's esther god's name is not in mcgill assessor and we know there are many reasons for that but whatever reason you want to give the upshot is and the bottom line is god's name is not in the magilla so how could the gemara say that god created a name for himself through mikromagilla so let's analyze a few specific episodes in the purim story and let's begin in number one and uh please forgive me i'm gonna have to elaine [Laughter] remember that possum it's the last paragraph esther it's the third to last apostilla that the king akashverosh taxed the land and the islands and the simple question a two-word question is who cares why is this in the magilla the purpose of the magilla is not to give historical information it's not to give historical background the purpose of the megillah is to magnify the miracle of the story there is no extraneous historic information in the magilla as we know the very next passage is and all the story of the strength and the might ufaro and the intrigue of the episode of mordechai you want to know the palace intrigue you want to know the rest of the story you want to know other details halloween in the book of the chronicles of persian media what's this pastor teaching us this postdoc is teaching us says that no historical information is thrown into megillah just to get a better picture of what was going on in the times this is not a work of history this is not a work of archaeology this is not a work of uh to commemorate the past that all that stuff you got to go into the the chronicles of persian media this book was written for one reason and one reason only parsoumenisa to publicize the miracle it's incredible if that's the very next puzzle so then we're entitled to ask what in the world is the puzzle before teaching us why does the megillah say that tax the people who cares that he tax the people it's irrelevant it's unnecessary useless information and this is the question of the brisker of rabbits of salvation and he gives an interesting answer but basianta de shmaya we like to explore a really incredible possibility here please take a look at number five on your sheets because number five on your sheet is going to bring out maybe the main principle of mcgill assessed was coming to the courtyard of the king to hang mordechai on the tree that he prepared for him there's an extra word in this passage it could have just said no that he prepared for him obviously for him then for who says the gemara three words which is the whole foundation of mcgill assessed we learnt law he didn't prepare it for mordechai he prepared it for himself haman thought he was building this tree look at rashi number seven he's making it for himself haman thought he was making a tree fifty 50 ammo tall to hang mordechai no all of his efforts all of his energies all of his machinations were to hang himself this is the central principle of mcgill assessor that god did not just orchestrate events to save us god used hijacked co-opted the plans the machinations of haman god said you plan whatever you want i'll use your plan to get back at you you know the gemara message sanhedrin if you look at number 16 the gemara says there's a man by the name of ovadia vadio was a rare personality he was one of the only naviem who descended from asov what else o vader came from geram he was a get from aguero he was from edomite converts and what did he prophecy about he prophesied about the downfall of edom he prophesied about the destruction of edom so isn't that ironic that somebody who comes from edom would prophecy about the downfall of adam so the gamora says in sanhedrin and tesla maybes by the way so i just want to mention i just remembered omar ephraim akshaya tamido shall was also a descendant of asav so he knew the family history that's why he's the balhamera over here ramayana is the one who says oh value is a garadami was isaidah also came from adam okay back to the ranch so it says it's ironic that a descendant of edom would prophecy about the downfall of adam says gemara no this is the method of heaven and there's an expression for this is what people say about from the forest itself comes the handle for the ax it's a song if you don't know it good okay from the forest itself comes the handle for the axe what does that mean that means you hear you have a woodsman and he's chopping down the whole forest and where does the handle for that ax come from from the forest itself meaning god will sometimes take the weapon and the plan of the russia and hijack it to bring about the results that god himself wants and let's bring a few very powerful illustrations of this first in the hamish and then ultimately in the magilla so there's a guy named pyro makes a decree the astrologers say hey paris today's a bad day we foresee in our astrological signs that the savior of the jewish people is going to be born today so um you got to drown him so power makes the decree call habbin we're gonna get sorry [Applause] [Music] by the way never do that always turn off your phone when you give a share never do that sorry very embarrassing i'm going to turn it off now thank you that's what you should not do okay so um there's a man who power makes a decree that all the boys have to be thrown into the sea so there's this little baby floating by the nile and basia his daughter sees the baby and she knows that if she takes this baby and she's jeopardizing her life but on the other hand the baby's crying and she has rahmanus on the kid and she takes the kid in and she brings the kid into the palace and what happens she says look uh i have a new adopted child daddy you know uh i have to go out tonight you mind taking care of the child so one night all of a sudden power is sleeping and this little baby wakes up power and power has no choice he's rocking moisha back to sleep he's feeding moisture to the bottle so para thought that he was going to eradicate the savior of the jewish people meanwhile he's waking up at night to feed this little kid then the next day abbasi says you know i just got a bill for the baby food you want to pay it okay on my credit card then moshe has to go to ghan shibas who sends part of the tuition bill para pays it moshe has to go to kindergarten paris foots the bill musha has to learn how to you know how to behave para is training him moshe's tai isn't straight paris said you've got to strain your tie you're going to be a leader one day says even ezra that had power had moshe albino grown up with the rest of the jewish people they all had a slave mentality so he never would have been able to be groomed as a leader of israel so he grew up in paris palace he grew up amidst royalty so that he could have a royal bearing and be the leader of the jewish people so power thought he was destroying the savior of the jewish people meanwhile his decree didn't destroy maisha it created my shed groomed my shaykh it prepared moshe to be the leader of the jewish people so you know parade never gets his due we always say maisha toyota toyotaro para is responsible for the torah because paris saved moshe how did paris save moshe by decreeing to destroy him god created moshe through the decree of paradise haman says this fairish guy is the most wishy-washy guy in the world one day one minute he decides to kill vashti the next minute he'll change his mind the only way to capitalize on this meshuggana is we're going to make the gallows 50 almost tall so that if he ever gets really angry at somebody he'll just say immediately hang him on it and he won't have second thoughts this day when i get ah angry and mordechai he'll say hang mordechai thank you so much aman this way when haman takes one little misstep with esther should have just said sorry about that i tripped instead ah we were going to kill him they said where what do you mean where he looks up and the tree is staring him right in the face had that gallows not been 50 almost tall we may still have uh been dealing with those amalekim but because haman realized that what's called he was a wishy-washy guy and he had to construct the gallows 50 ammo that's what brought about the downfall of haman let me give you a few other incredible examples look at number 23. this is the decree of haman send out the books through the runners the documents were explicit eradicate the jews but look at the next passage that's what the messenger sent past yourself but the text of the document that was revealed before all the peoples listen carefully it says the gra the messengers knew that on the 13th day of adar the jews would be destroyed the messengers knew it but what did it say on the document paschegen haksav to be read and to be given in every community all it said was leois aside be prepared for the 13th of adar and what's going to happen on the 13th day of adar it didn't say it was blank beware of the ides of march it didn't say what was going to happen meaning the messengers knew but they didn't record it black and white why didn't they record a black and white says the gruff they would have written on the message that we're going to kill the jews on the 13th day of adar then the jews would get wind of what the game wanted to do to them and they would run away or they would arm themselves or they would try to resistance so therefore the messengers knew what it meant but it didn't say on the pashka villain what exactly was going to happen on the 13th day of ada luckily it didn't say it because if it would have said that the gentiles were able to kill us on the 13th day of aadhaar then never would have been able to reverse the decree because the law in persia was if there was a document written and sealed with the signet ring of the king it could never be rescinded so luckily haman was stupid enough not to write on the document what's going to happen on the 13th day of aadhaar he thought if it's written on the document what's going to happen the jews would save themselves little did he know that by not writing exactly what's on the document now it could be rescinded because all the documents said be prepared for the 13th day of aadhaar so said okay perfect i don't have to retract anything you jews now be prepared for the 13th day of outdoor now you're gonna kill your enemies had hammer not been such a ibrahim we would have been in really hot water but god utilized his plans his machinations his techniques his schemes to be able to destroy himself there's another example the wife of haman by the way does anybody know how many times does hammond's name appear in mcgill as esther 54 times 54 times hammond's name is in miguel assassin and how many times is his name in miguel assassin same number of times anybody anybody know how many sukkim there are magillas esther there are a hundred and sixty six sukim in the gilas esther how many sukkim in the hummish speak how many words in the hamesh speak about the downfall and the destruction of amalek how many words will we have nine tsukemen mashalach and threepsukemen kise a total of incredibly words in the humish to destroy amolek that's the number of tsukimi miguel assassin how many letters in the ten sons of haman 54 letters how many words and be made 54 words 54 times in the magilla god says you know who i'm going to destroy the 54 letters of the 10 sons of haman so here's a great example hamon says you know what should i do with mordechai i'm really angry at him i really want to get back at him so zaresh says i have such a great idea you need to go running to the king in the morning first thing before anybody could possibly say one good word about murder first thing in the morning so haman says that's such a great idea i'm going to run first thing in the morning and boy is it a good thing that he came first thing in the morning because ah was tossing and turning the whole night because he realized that he had received the benefit from mordechai that he never paid back so that when haman for the first time in his life he was early to something came running in first thing in the morning said you know what should i do to someone who i want to honor and haman was there let him real we are the royal horse and so on and so forth sanchez told him you do it but had he not been there early in the morning he would have missed that whole opportunity but here's the very best example this is absolutely incredible you know in the beginning of the story ah has a problem with his wife now if you're the king of the world and you have a problem with your wife you don't really need to ask anybody's advice what to do seems to be very dependent spoke and he asked the star gazers the astrologers why what to do with um vashti why is ah asking somebody's advice if he's not happy with his wife he could do whatever he wants to her he doesn't really he's not really dependent on anybody else why is he asking the advice of the seven advisers of parasamaday so there's an incredible vilnigan the vilnigan says number 38 the gra reveals to us that the law in persia was the king has the final say on every single matter he doesn't have to ask advice he doesn't need to go through checks and balances he's a dictator he's the king of the world but there's one exception there is one time that akhashverosh must ask the advice of others and that's what that's when devar hamele that whenever there's a rule whenever there's a case whenever there's a judgment that affects him and he is he's biased it's relevant to him he must ask the advice of other advisers then when it's relevant to the king he has to ask someone else's advice lefnay call your day das so therefore he says look i know i'm the king of the world but now it's relevant to me so i have to ask your advice and what advice do they give akheros get with the program you're the king of the world just decide on your own so the king says but the rule in persia is that when it's relevant to me i have to make um i have to ask others advice so much says bad rule bad law change the law you're the king who cares about the law the king doesn't have to abide by the law muhammad you make the call always ah so later on in the magilla when haman takes the misstep with esther and who comes along and advises the king here's the tree here's the gallows hang on [Applause] you know why because there was a man by the name of muharram bad law abolish the law from now on you make all the calls and who's on thank you so much if not for you would have said hang him let me ask him and maybe they would have had rakhmani they were in cahoots with haman after human was part of the assemblage but because haman told from now on you make all the calls so got angry at hormone he didn't have to ask anyone's advice he just knocked him off friends let's come to the end of the megillah so what we're learning is the whole pattern of the magilla the whole operation on the magilla is god is not orc just orchestrating events you see rav david teville in the based of it explains that there's nothing blatantly miraculous about the purim story yes it's a collection of a lot of uh seemingly coincidences that you you'll say to yourself well somebody's obviously pulling the strings you know maybe this itself is not a miracle and that detail is not a miracle and the other detail is not a miracle but the conglomeration and combination of all the various seeming uh incredible coincidences someone's obviously pulling the strings well says rabdavitevo maybe you'll argue and say you know maybe it's a random collection of coincidences so how does god show absolutely that this is not a coincidence that someone is definitively pulling the strings through this methodology of alo by using every plan imagination of haman you hijacking it co-opting it and using it against him now it's clear yes there's no splitting of the red sea in the purim story but now it's clear that somebody is pulling the strings we now go to sephir ezra number 43 and say for ezra takes place years after the purim story and the king of persia at the time was daryabash and aryavesh says to the jewish people who had returned to israel you're having a hard time supplying yerushalayim you're having a hard time building the bay samiktas building the walls of your shalayam not a problem i am going to empty out my storehouses and my treasury and send you as much money as you need and in fact if you look at number three whatever you want to imam issuing a decree says cooperate with the jews um from the royal estate dimidas of the taxes pay for the rebuilding and restoration of the vasa mikdash and likewise in number 46 daryovesh says in pasakraf empty out the treasury of taxes and give the money to the jewish people to rebuild the second base and i ask you friends where did darya get all this money from where did he get all this tax money from to rebuild the second temple how do you have all this wealth where did he have this yerusha from we know who his father was ah and where did he rush get the money from the people and we asked who cares why is that in the story it's irrelevant information no stay tuned keep your eyes open read a little further on in the naveem get to say for ezra you'll see he had a son daryabash who by the way was the son of achashvirus and esther and that son is going to inherit all that tax money and when the jewish people need to rebuild the second temple daryabash is going to open up the treasury so listen to the incredible ashkaw kha practice of the purim story while miguel's esther begins that is celebrating 70 years since the destruction of the temple meaning the temple will never be rebuilt the beginning of the story opens up akheros is gloating over corbin he takes out the calamity something they're saying the basements will never be rebuilt by the end of the purim story akash meros has become the chief fundraiser of the second base hamiktash al-hawaii corbin little did he know that he was raising the building fund for the second base that's the summit of miguel says that's the climax of the story it's the end of the story you cannot get more than that is going around collecting money for us no envelopes no phone calls no parlor meetings no chinese auctions akashverosh is collecting the money where do you think he got the money from vasera salofim all the money that human paid him to kill the jews gave over as yerusha to his son to his son to rebuild the vasa mechas thank you haman for being the main contributor to the second visa magnus so the truth is if you would walk into the second temple and you'd see plaques you know what would the plaque say friedman lavine no that plaques on the second base something just would say this temple is proudly sponsored by akhas veroish in honor of claudius this temple is proudly sponsored by haman in honor of his beloved jewish people haman thought he was going to eradicate mordechai and keep the basa mikdash in ruins little did he know that he's responsible for the building of the basa mcdosh hashem's name is not a mcgillis esther but you know amigos esther the name for the jewish people is different than anywhere else in tanakh and everywhere else in tanakh where israel is and in megillah sester what's our name yehudah yahoo them you know why we're called yehudim there's a mitzvah in the torah there's a mitzvah says put god before me always the mishabru even says one should imagine in their mind the imagery yud and then ahe and then above and hey that's the mitzvah of shivisi hashem it's on the very first page of the mishnah always imagine that the name of god is in front of you but there's one level of imagining the name of god is in front of you but when you reach the level where you imbibe and integrate this concept into your very fabric into your very being then instead of the name of god being in front of you you become yehudim the shellac other says look at the name yehudah and you'll see wonders and then hashem's name plus the dalid which is the fourth leg of the ki sayakawid avraham yitzhakov and the fourth land the jewish people in the time of purim realized integrated felt that kashmir was not only pulling the strings they saw clearly god's absolute control over the events of history where the russia could plan and scheme and god said plan and scheme whatever you want i'll use your plan right back at ya the jewish people fulfilled the shivisi hashem le negdi tamid that not only was the name of god always in front of them the name of god became part of their personality they became yehudim that's the madriga of yehudim of shivisi hashem le negdy tommy to the highest level the ramami panel reveals to us that the word sheilas is a rosheit voice was a descendant of haman himself and that's for a different discussion let's talk for a moment the first raman shalhan you know what the first raman shah is shivi si hashem le neg di tamid the first rama in hagar the first time it is shivisi hashem the nagditam and i place god before me always the second time it is a good heart will always have a party two to meet them carbon tamil if a person lives with god before their eyes tamid shivisi hashem the negative one will then reach the level of how does one acquire happiness in this world if a person puts hashem before them always tamid they will have the other tamid these are the two to meet them the more god is in front of you the more happiness you'll have the more shivi hashem the the more to believe then you'll have happiness you'll have the late mistake so saturday night is a very sad time matsai shabbas is a very sad time you know why because you have to take leave of shabbos there's an incredible shot that rav hutner that the gemara says murder if you look in the magilla mordecai wanted to make purim yamtiv for like qibla the jewish people did not accept it imagine coming to jews and say you have an extra day off you have an extra yamtif and they just said no thanks we don't want a day off why were the jewish people not accepting of paramedium that they said we'll have a holiday but no it's we got to work why didn't the jews want to be macabre purim as the umptive says if hunter if you accept purim as a yomptiv guess what you have to do and purim is over you have to make havdallah and the jewish people never want to make abdullah from purim they never want to be separated from purim they want to be connected to purim the whole year shabbos we need to take leave of we only have shabbos one day a year purim is simply you increase your joy nada but you're happy through purim the whole year long and therefore every saturday night as we're taking leave of the holy shabbos we encourage ourselves by saying even though we have to take leave of shabbos there's one thing a jew never has to take leave of a jew never has to take leave of purim [Music] to remember esther we have the two nero's to remember mordechai esther and we invoke the salvation of purim because the salvation of purim teaches us the key to happiness the key to happiness is there are two to medium in this world and the toy vlade and the jewish people in the times of purim by witnessing this magnificent method divine method of al-itza they recognized not only shilas shivisi hashem the nagdi tamid but they integrated it and they elevated themselves to the madriga of yehudim and therefore they merited it so may we also merit to try to integrate into our consciousness shivisi thank you so much 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