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The Secret Life of Queen Esther - Women's Purim Class
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A brilliant insight by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on "Esther's Fast" This women's class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Tzav, 12 Adar II, 5779, March 19, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabbiYYJacobson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ Telegram: https://t.me/RabbiYY #purim #torah #rabbiyyjacobson
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the yeshiva dotnet names and Judaism
entire are always significant the
Gomorrah tells us a masochist humor a
mayor dyad Bhishma Ramaiya would even
tune in and focus on the name of a
person but generally names are
considered meaningful and insightful the
Megillah that is read on Purim is called
enmesh niacin and gomorrah among the
Hazael and in the works of halacha until
today we call it McGillis Esther the
scroll of Esther that name though
requires explanation
obviously Esther is one of the key
characters in the entire story but
nonetheless as the Megillah puts it as
Mimer Mordecai Esther I saw Esther
followed the instructions of Martha hi
when the Megillah introduces first the
Jewish angle into the story of a hash
wash it starts off issue who di abou
shushanna bearish my Martha hi there was
a Jewish man a yahoodi who lived in
shushanna beer in the capital of the
Persian Empire which my Martha hi Ben
Yair and shimmy been quiche is she
Minnie and then the Megillah continues
saying how Martha hi nurtured and took
Esther into his home since she was an
orphan she had no father she had no
mother and therefore when they took
Esther to the palace
Mordecai felt personal responsibility
for her bacala in VO him everyday Marduk
I walked in the courtyard of the King to
find out la das Aslam Esther to inquire
on the welfare of Esther and generally
as the Megillah describes Esther
remained loyal to the instructions the
guidance the mentorship of Mordecai both
before this event before she was taken
as a queen to the Persian king
and afterwards of course it's Martha hi
who's the one who notified
Esther first about the evil edict
against her people and pleaded with her
to go speak Turkish Irish and the way
the Megillah sums it up is as Miami
Murdock is Teresa cashiers Eva Alomar
daca Esther was following the mentorship
the guidance of martha hi thus one would
expect perhaps the Megillah to be called
McGillis mordecai or McGillis Mordecai
the Esther the Megillah of Mordecai and
Esther
Martha hi being such an instrumental
part in the story as Esther was or maybe
McGillis Esther Oh Martha hi since it's
Esther who was the actual Queen but
that's not the name the name of the
Megillah is exclusively McGillis Esther
it's the story of Esther
now Hanukkah we have a megillah'
it's called McGillis Antiochus it's
called McGillis Antiochus it's read till
today and it's not about everywhere but
it's read in some communities on
Hanukkah McGillis Antiochus it just
never made it into what's called
Caesarea coitus one of the books of
Tanith the Megillah of Purim you would
expect maybe to be called McGillis Akash
parish he was the one who was the king
maybe McGillis home on Rockhouse ravish
but you want to focus not on the Gentile
enemies of the Jewish people huh menorah
Harish those who brought the salvation
could have been called McGillis Purim it
could have been given another name
representing the miracle it could have
been called in the name of Martha sorry
the name of the salvation of the Jewish
people ultimately the name that was
chosen by Tara was and the name employed
by house Allah throughout all of the
generations
till today is McGillis Esther it's the
book the scroll of Esther the Gemara
Nagila tracted Magilla the tractate and
Talmud dedicated to poor him on page
seven design I'm at Olive 7 a tells the
following story shawl column Esther
comin Esther after the story of Purim
sent a message to the sages the sages of
the time with the request the request
consisted of two words
Cavani ladoris establish me for
generations what did she mean Rashi
explains she asked them to take the
events of Purim and turn it into a young
to turn it into a holiday let it become
a day of Thanksgiving a day of gratitude
a day of celebration a day of telling
the story and this was a message to the
spiritual leaders of the Jewish people
at the time the hakama is there knowing
the sages the wise men or sometimes
we'll call them Camejo Sanhedrin the
sages of the Sun hadn't at that time
Clouser all the Jewish nation was
governed by a body of 71 members which
you would might call the Jewish Supreme
Court we call them the Sanhedrin
ordained ordained by a by each one had
to be ordained person-to-person all the
way back to my sharavino so there was a
direct unbroken link from Masha Rubino
which is what always gave Jewish
tradition its vibrancy and its sense of
intimacy and reality because you can
always point to the previous generation
there was an unbroken Messiah an
unbroken tradition moisture himself
appointed seventy sages to work with him
in Parsons balalaika and then for each
generation one of these 71 had to ordain
others yahushua and then throughout the
generations including in the days of
Mordecai and Esther which is the end of
the 70 years of the Babylonian exile the
first temple was destroyed by
Nebuchadnezzar 586 before the Common Era
according to the general calendar and
approximately seven decades later when
the Jews are in Iran under the
persian/farsi Empire which defeated the
Babylonian Empire when the VUCA Nets are
the monarch destroyed the first-base
emitters but seven decades later
Babylonia was defeated by bolonia
present-day Iraq was defeated by Iran by
a hush virus who was now the
Persian Emperor person monarch and in
that era that were also son hadron the
chief the leader was Martha hi you had
personalities like a guy Sariah Malathi
who are the last profits of the Tanakh
people like Ezra Nehemia Zubov L who
would be the people making the first the
second Aliyah from exile from Babylonia
back there it's a stroll to rebuild the
second base some English Esther sends a
message to all of these sages with a
request
Kovu nila dyrus established my story as
a timeless Jewish holiday and you know
what their response was absolutely not
why why their words kena at my rarest
Elena Batum asylum you will you will
trigger you will arouse the fires of
anti-semitism you will fan the embers
you will fan the flames of Jew hatred
kena at Marisol a no you will bring our
jealousy zealousness negativity
animosity among the nations of the world
towards the Jewish people it's better if
Purim is hush hush hush and as Rashi
explains what's this celebration going
to be about Harmon hung ten children of
hummin hung all of the enemies of the
Jewish people killed during the wars on
the 13th day of other Irish various
appointing martyr hires as Prime
Minister
Martha Hayat symbol of whoosh male host
why you hood am i sorry of a simple
composition recur what do we needed for
key not Marisol a no this is not the way
we're happy it happened and now let's
move on interesting response tester and
Esther responded back and said you got
it wrong
how like farc sue varney bc frame al k
mother you pour us in their books the
whole story is written
you all know the story let that least
the Jewish people know the story they
know this story you're trying to hide
from people you can't tie they know
everything they're aware of everything
in your mind they may not be aware but
they know everything it's all written
down it's all transcribed in their
chronicles at least let the Jewish world
understand the story and then the Gemara
continues Esther's asked them for
something else
Kosovo Neela Doris don't only celebrate
for him as a holiday I want you to write
down the story and it will become part
of the sacred what we call canonized
text of the Tanakh and once again they
said absolutely not and their source
their source was a verse from michl a
chelation Valeri bei him that the story
of blotting out Amalek and hominid
ascendant of Amalek is to be three times
in the Tanakh and the three are taken up
parsha especially partially saints a
which is partial sucker we just read
this up as before Purim and finally
Shmuel Aleph patient peyrac tests above
small 1 samuel 1 chapter 15 the after
departures after the story of King Saul
Saul hemella being commanded to go blot
out a bowl lake but he asked compassion
he leaves the King alive agog alive and
as the Gomora says ha man ha Gogi hummin
is called an alga guy because he was a
descendant of a gog the king of our
Malik in the Midrash says it was that
night when Schmoyer allowed when Sheol
allowed a gog to live that he had
ultimately he had ultimately had
relations which caused the seed of Amun
to be born generations later three times
Bashar marquisate say and the haftorah
and then the Gomorrah says the Sun
Hedren inquired and researched and
investigated and they realized that
Esther was right from the SU command
parses mashaallah sighs I see car
the safer serves Oh easy Cara be safer
that ultimately the Megillah the story
of Purim should be written and written
doesn't only mean written physically
documented but written means that the
text becomes a sacred text the writing
itself is becomes holy and significant
we read the Megillah and and we get less
to be written on parchment and you have
to hear every word of the Megillah it's
not just a story of Purim the written
story assumes tremendous significance
that concrete writing on the wall or
writing on the parchment is what Esther
accomplished Kosovo nila Daris which
would explain why the Megillah would be
called McGillis Esther because it's not
just a story about her soso about other
people but really she is the one who is
responsible for the Megillah for the
fact that we have this scroll of Esther
and it's sacred significance as a member
of the Tanakh but which only brings us
to the next question
why did Esther go out so much on a limb
for this to the point that she had to
stand up to great great people great men
who initially rejected both of her
requests they acquiesced they realized
that Esther was right but why did Esther
from all people feel so compelled to the
point that she is the one who asked for
the Megillah to happen the fact that she
asked for the Megillah to happen is
because there's something about the
Megillah that is uniquely connected to
her and that's why the name is McGillis
Esther allow me to change the subject
for a moment but not completely
everybody knows that the day before
Purim the 13th day of other is a unique
day and its name from time and memorial
is highness
Esther literally the fast of Esther
throughout the Jewish calendar we have
different fasts we have Yom Kippur a
fast of Yom Kippur we have the fast
coltish above which is the date the
ninth of of Shiva Sabha Thomas we have a
fast called Sangha Dahlia day after a
Shoshanna it commemorates the
assassination
of a Jew named gundalia the son of a
Hickam who was appointed by the
Babylonian monarch before the Purim
story to be the head of the Jewish
community in Judea now it's his shot
after the destruction and his
assassination was really a terrible blow
and a new current in Jewish history we
of course have the other fasts sorry but
Avis 10th of tavis this fast which this
year like always is a day before Purim
this year Wednesday tomorrow is not cool
Thainess you'd gimel other consistent
with the other fast church the motion of
awesome a Thomas or choice yesterday by
other choice also by the 13th of other
it has a name kindness Esther the fast
of Esther if every name is significant
as we mentioned before McGillis Esther
let's think for a moment about the name
- Esther why is the fast given the name
Thainess Esther at first glance
most people who have read the Megillah
will answer the question and it seems
like a no-brainer when Martha hi begged
Esther to go in to her husband Akash
parish and plead with them for the
Jewish people
Esther finally acquiesced and said I
will go over Haines over Alamelu a
shallow hadass I will enter into the
King not according to the regulations
and the laws which are share of oddity
of oddity but before that Esther tells
Mordecai Lake noises Kaleo them go
gather all the Jews but sooo more lie I
want you to fast don't eat and don't
drink for three consecutive days and I
mean days of 24-hour period sly love
ahem
gamma Nev and IO you say oh it's okay we
shall oh so fast me and the young women
who helped me my assistants will oh so
fast by Heba I'm Ashley she on the third
day but till Bosh Esther malkos Esther
dresses up in royalty and she enters
into the King jeopardy
her very life and she told Martha if he
doesn't stretch out the golden scepter I
come out of this audience with a head
shorter a COS dose illumise
Esther thus is the one who initiated the
fast she is the one who told Martha hi
go gather all of the Jews in Isis coli
or them all the Jews on him sorry mr.
Shah all the Jews over ProQuest weak at
length like niacin I'm sorry I'm
assertion on the whole the not with who
the transformation so we understand who
is the one who conceived of the fast it
was Esther Martin if I had to implement
it he was the leader on the ground
Esther was in the palace but it was her
idea she conceived the ideas she
instructed Martha try to do it and he
went and he did it she also said I
almost gonna fast this would then
explain why it's called Tinus Esther
it's really Esther's fast it's her baby
it's her idea she came up with it we're
fasting because of her yet as many of
the commentators explained this is
really a very problematic explanation
and I'll explain to you why
who knows when tynus this time is this
fast of Esther when did it happen
it happened on Pesach it has nothing to
do with the day before poor let's
remember the history Harmon shows
through a lot the thirteenth day the
13th day of Adar as the designated day
monoliths lana for genocide the day in
which every Jew in the Persian Empire
which means every Jew would be Halil
exterminated lahar Schmitt Valera this
call are you who didn't mean I've adds
up of inertia children older people men
women every age every stripe every blue
conceivable on the face of the planet
which who was under the provinces under
the governance of a frustration at the
time because of the massive Persian
Empire you had no Jews yet in the United
States of America
you had notes before Christopher
Columbus you had no Jews yet in
Australia
you had no Jews yet in New Zealand you
had no Jews in Japan or China
the Jews were
concentrated in the provinces the 127
provinces under Aakash Mary wishes rule
one day designated to murder each and
every one of them hi Alicia this is the
13th day of other designated when was
the decree signed when did the king sign
this edict and the answer is the
Megillah says on the 13th day of Nissen
which means 11 months earlier so on the
13th day of Nissen an edict came out
from the king that in eleven months
exactly 11 months round exactly 11
months 13th of listen to the 13th of
other you with me the Jews should be
exterminated on that day Mordecai hears
about the decree and what happens he
rents his garments he sends a message to
the Queen to Esther but to sell her
Malcolm I Esther was overwhelmed from
trepidation when she hears this she
sends back the message I can't go in
without permission I'll be killed Martha
she responds and says rather Hatzolah
this is your responsibility me I'd am
lays cause I see got Lamaze perhaps this
is the reason you became the queen bee a
day Esther sends back a message okay
go gather all the Jews and fast for
three days I will also fast
on the third day she goes into the king
when were these fast days if the decree
came out on the 13th of Anacin
so the fast days were the next three
nights and days so it was the 14th of
Nisan the 15th of Nisan and the 16th of
necen Erev Pesach the first day of
Pesach of the second day of pace some of
the sages argue that the fast actually
happened right away that day which means
the fast was you'd give a listen your
Dollard miss and entice Roughness two
days before pacer in the first day of
pace to the point that Mordecai sent
back a message the Damaris says how
could we fast on pacer you know what a
fast on pace I'm paced if there's a
mitzvah to eat matzah
I'm pacer pace of kazaar yom tov we make
kiddush we eat matzah we have meals
there's a seder pace even though it was
an excellent
they couldn't bring a carbon pacer but
there's still a biblical mince routine
Matt's on pace there are bhinneka
mitzvot to drink four cups of wine to
eat it when you recline to eat more etc
etc how can you suggest this and Esther
responds to Martha thigh in a nice Rolla
Molly Pesach without Jews what are you
gonna do with your Pesach there's no
Pesach if you're not gonna have Jews in
the world there's no pay so who's gonna
celebrate Pesach
now we have to focus on saving the Jews
and that's why the Megillah continues
via very modified which literally means
Mordecai transgressed asks the gomorrah
withered Mordecai transgress he
instituted a fast on Pesach for all of
the Jewish people including for himself
and this was the idea of Esther so when
was this fast as fast was not on the
13th of order this fast was a pacer
you'd given this in your Dollard miss
and test of all venison or your Dollard
miss and testimo Venus anti-zionist
which by the way the third day of the
fast Esther goes into her king - the
king he of course accepts her with grace
he says what do you want Esther I'll do
anything for you advocacy I'm Alice and
she invites him to a party which is why
it's broad in halakha employ skip that
on the second day of pacer that's a very
interesting haha you should add
something extra to the meal why save her
commemoration to the meal that Esther
threw the party that Esther threw for a
flesh parish in Hama because if the fast
happened you'd gimel you'd Allah tests
evolve so tests love was the third day
she went in on the first day of pacer
she invited a fresh very wish to a meal
that evening and of course there was a
lot of drinking of wine and Esther of
course made sure there should be a lot
of wine she wanted to drink four cups of
wine by the say that had he supposed to
drink four cups of wine in the palace
maca Spanish so she made sure there's a
lot of wine so our Spanish could drink
and Harmon should drink and she can also
drink her four cups of wine ah yeah yes
she brought rabbi Landau in the bodice
to supervise the party it was at night
it was after the fast she broke hers she
broke her fast
she broke her fast the second night of
basic human obscene he shall go deus in
persia doesn't say at the party to his
comments a fresh Spanish can he come at
some pace so how much can he come at
some pace not a problem so hurry up to
dieter I hate him she can they can have
other couples but it anyway who says
there was humus it was all gluten-free
what do you think and and then during
the meal a fresh Raider says what do you
want now she says I want a second party
when is the second party what we call
the second thing which sorry the second
day of pace because I that's the second
party so either Tusayan was the first
party if the fast was you dollar to
self-designed that was the first party
with the second party that's why it says
in a locker that on the second day of
Pesach you make a commemoration for the
mr. Shah sister Esther we do something
special at the second meal in order to
commemorate that but this opinion or
that opinion it's obvious that the three
days of fasting we're not here to give
milada the 13th of other so the Tinus
esther that we are celebrating is not
that fast we're fasting before porter
that fast happened a year before the
events important and the month of Missa
sorry the fact that we fast one day and
that fast for three days so you can
explain what we don't want to fast three
days it's difficult one day is also
difficult for people but three days and
three nights I don't have to elaborate
on what that means it was like a unique
moment in Jewish history so we can't do
it for three days and three nights it
would be something that the Khazar would
not Institute but besides the fact that
it's a change from three to one even if
you want to rationalize that it's a
completely different date than the
calendar if they want to make us safer
for the fast of Esther they're probably
not going to commemorate it in the month
of Nissen and on Pesach cause we don't
have a right to cancel out to say that
to commemorate a fast but you can make
it at another date and generally the
Gomorrah says when you want to make a
fast and you can't make it on that day
you always delay
you don't make it earlier you delay it
to do it somehow time in the month of
year after the month of miss so
tightness Esther can't mean that fast
it's a completely different fast that
fast I understand why it's called
Esther's fast but I'll fast the day
before put him in London with Esther
Weissach Alton assess it's even
interesting the Messiah's safe from says
that some people used to have a
commemoration for Esther's fast and
after Purim they fast on a Thursday on a
Monday and on a Thursday to commemorate
the three days of estrus fast so there
was actually a special commemoration for
that fast that was done after pouring
which also requires explanation why it's
done before and not later usually we say
fasts usually fast let's say tisha
buffers on Shabbos you don't fast before
you fast after and the reason is the
Kamara says that peroneus negative
things you don't make them earlier you
delay them later with kindness Esther
you sometimes do it earlier if put him
is Sunday you can't fast on Shabbos
because you can't push it off a day
later because it's gonna be pouring so
you do it earlier but here according to
the Messiah decide for him when they
commemorate the three-day fast they
don't do it after Nissen they do it
before Nissen they do it in other but
they do it after Purim and that's why
thou who draw Hamra Baynard Ovid of
order ham and many of their other of the
greater logical theories explain that
tiniest Esther is a completely different
type of fast it has nothing to do with
the three day fast and Esther instituted
because that wasn't connected to the
13th of other it has to do with
something else completely
remember when Hamid was killed the edict
was not over hummons death was a nice
event in the sense that a woman was
killed such an arch enemy of the Jewish
people it was a cause for celebration
but not for ultimate celebration to give
a simple and tragic example if in middle
of the Holocaust an iseman would have
been shot or a himmler would have been
shot or a Mengele would have been shot
or a
bubbles would have been shot in maximum
it wouldn't have altered the Holocaust
one of its key architects or
implementers would have been eliminated
the edict was out hummons edict was out
on the 13th of other every Jews should
be exterminated this was an edict of the
king every man woman and child hummin is
gone but the decree was there which is
why in chapter 8 of the Megillah but
toys if Esther Esther comes back but his
scan and the Freya melody she pleads
before the king she falls by his feet
but temple if near Adam and she begs him
to cancel and obliterate the scheme of
hominid gonggi Mojave destroys maximus
I'm gonna go give why astronomic is dead
but the decree is still there and what's
the response of the king he says I can't
change the decree it's already signed
and I cannot cancel a decree that was
issued for it by the King what does he
agree on you know what he agreed on he
agreed on that the Jews could stand up
in self-defense people don't realize
they think that with purium who was all
over wasn't over
when Haman was hung for the next year
Jews had to prepare for war because on
the 13th day of other there was a royal
edict to go kill Jews what a hush virus
gave in while he gave in to Esther is he
allowed the Jews to stand up against
their enemies you could kill back you
could defend yourself and come back
which is what the Jews did on the
thirteenth of other so eleven months
later when the thirteenth of other came
it wasn't an easy day there was a very
serious day because old arm Allah kites
and all the Jew haters rose to kill this
was their prerogative from the king the
difference was over the year with Marta
high as a prime minister and Esther as a
queen and a hush virus turned favorably
to the Jewish people so many people
backed out there was a general or and
respect for the Jewish people the regime
the government was
assisting any more than mullah kites and
the jeweler is with the murder but the
Jew still had to defend themselves says
that wood rom something very interesting
based on our shelters which is we have a
hollow ha interceptor moussaka Steines
when Jews went to war a day when Jews
went to war they used to be geyser
Thainess they used to make a fast on
that day because a time this is an a
Surratt site it's a day that special
suitable for prayer and powerful
blessings and achievements and therefore
when they went to warn they needed extra
success hats lock Abraha success and
blessings in their endeavor they used to
always issue forth at inés they would
make a fast too fast on that very day to
pray and fast that the war should the
victor victory should come they should
triumph over their enemies since the
thirteenth of other was a day of war of
battle the Jews as the passage says
nickyloo the armored an option they
gathered together to stand up for their
soul so it became a day of a fast as the
gomorrah says you'd give most manky he
lola coil he was a time of gathering
what type of gathering one of the
interpretations is gathering for war
that to prepare for battle and another
interpretation is they gathered oh so
key gila it was a time of gathering was
a time of special prayer special
benedictions
and as the foudre ham quotes from the
shelters and the tie self there would
have been a young kindness a day of
fasting oh if that's the case we
understand why the thirteenth of other
is a day of fasting because the day
before Purim was a day when they fasted
just like we commemorate the celebration
we also commemorate the serious moments
before the celebration the time of
fasting as you'd Gimbel other was a day
of war and as the Megillah describes on
the 13th of other they fought back their
enemies who came to kill them and they
triumphed and on the fourteenth of order
they could rest because now the day was
over there was no permission to kill
anymore now anybody who would try to
kill a Jew would be penalized by death
perhaps and therefore you dollar they
can go home and relax and celebrate
which is why Purim is on your dollar and
the fast is on you'd get moe on the 13th
they fasted the day of the war and the
day after the war they relaxed in
Shushan with the war continued for two
days because there were so many are
mullah kites there Esther felt that the
Jews will not be safe because so many
murderers remained intact and they will
find every reason an excuse to kill Jews
the King extended the right for
self-defence another day and they only
rested when on the fifteenth day they
only rested on the fifteenth day
therefore they celebrate Purim on the
day fifteen Shushan Purim this is the
reason that vu drama and many of the
commentators give for the fast of Esther
why don't we fast in the 13th they have
other because it was a day when the
Jewish people fasted because it was a
day of battle it was a day of danger it
was a day of self-defense which brings
us back to the question so wise occult
ina sister was a disaster what does it
have to do with Esther it has to do if
it's the first interpretation which we
refuted I understand why it's Esther
because she initiated the plan but we
explained that it has nothing to do with
that that happened by pacer this is a
faster day before Purim that's why it's
dinner you'd give all other why is it
called time assess to the fast of Esther
so some superficially would say what why
not
Magilla says that is Esther you know
Russian rifle Ellucian but it doesn't
work that way cuz McGillis antennas
there are two separate creatures and
McGillis Esther has to do tackle with
Esther cause she's the one who initiated
the project of the Megillah as we
explained before the gomorrah says a
megillah'
Thainess Esther has absolutely nothing
to do with her nothing the Jews had to
gather together in battle it was a day
of prayer it was a day of benediction it
was a tightness and because it was a
tightness it's a day that you fast in
Yadav and Hashem and you asked our name
- I share mine a know every single Jew
and yet till today the essential the day
the name of the day is - s - the faster
Vesta to fight but the fastest nothing
to do
her she's got the permission to fight
100% I'm going to share with you an
insight an answer that was given by the
laboratory rabbit to this question he
said it pulled him out of a break-in at
a gathering of poor him and he said that
a few days Zermatt admit the Shila part
egg I struggled with this question a few
days and he said put him is my
Anglophile an utterance
I'm poor in an answer came into my mind
and this was the answer that the
Lubavitcher ever gave the same toy after
a massacre Steines and it's broad
initial Senora IRA Higham and the laws
of fasts tough go Simon - Simon tough
cuff I and Oliver I think which tells us
that on a day of fasting you have to
make a fat on a day of war you make a
fast day to increase prayers and
benedictions because it's an ace Rutzen
and a fast day has a very special power
the same tie scepter says who is
supposed to fast not the people who go
to war because the people who go to war
need to be as strong as possible to
quote the words of the hazael there now
letter fast because they cannot allow
Severus kokum if they fast that may
cause the Chabert column it may weaken
their energy and their stamina and their
vigor and therefore they're not allowed
to fast they have to eat they have to
drink they have to be as healthy as
possible soldiers in war need to be fed
well according to their capacity because
they have to have all the strength they
need according to tether to it so who's
supposed to fast in a day of war those
who stay behind the front lines whether
it's older people younger people people
who can't go to war women who are not
due to not go to war or men who wouldn't
go to war for whatever reason they would
stay behind and fast what about the
soldiers themselves those who went to
battle so the halacha tells us intercept
a tiny quarter-inch o'connor of what
they're supposed to do is make a
resolution that when they come back from
or they're going too fast and since when
a person makes a resolution moksha
vltava when a person makes a positive
revolution it's considered as though you
did it already even though you didn't do
it yet so the fact that they commit
themselves too fast it's considered as
though they fasted but they can't
physically actually implement it when
they come back from war then they could
fast so everybody else who doesn't go to
war they fast and they davon but those
who go to war they obviously can't go to
show sadly they have to go to war and
they're now out of fast they have to eat
and drink and those who stay behind will
fast and those who go to work commit
themselves to fast at a time when they
can when the war is over hopefully
they'll triumph and be victorious and
that thought and resolution that I'm
going to fast suffice is as though they
fasted already now said they're ever
let's think about it if this is the
truth of every war those who go to war
can't fast those who stay behind can
fast it's based on the principle that
there are those who go to war and are
those who stay behind but in this
particular war on the 13th day of other
we were the frontlines we were the front
lines of the battle that hummin
initiated for the 13th day of other we
were the frontlines who was targeted in
this war la Hache middle era will I be
this color you would mean nerve rods up
in tavern usher a one day old baby in a
crib was targeted a two year old girl in
her room was targeted
a hundred year old a hundred year old
Jew frail weak in bed was targeted every
man every woman and child
we were the front lines bedrooms
kitchens dining rooms basements couches
beds outside inside indoors outdoors
wherever there was a Jew of any age he
or she became the target so now there's
a question on the day of war you're
supposed to fast
but was anybody allowed to fast on that
day was there even one Jew who was
allowed to fast if every woman in the
kitchen knows she has to pick up an axe
she has to pick up a hammer she has to
pick up a knife she has to fight for
herself in her her little ones every kid
six-year-old is a target every 12 year
old is a target every 50 year-old is if
everybody's a target every 80 year old
manuals a turn is anybody a lot of fast
the answer is no you have to eat you
have to drink you have to be as strong
as you need because you're a target
which means that the fast of your Gimbel
are there essentially was only
theoretical what we say it's a fast day
it's only that they committed themselves
to fast because in reality nobody is a
lot of the best usually when there's a
war there is a battlefield front lines
and there's back lines you mobilize the
soldiers or you mobile the reservists
they go to war but others stay behind
they stay behind and they could organize
life as much as possible they can assist
the war in other ways but here there
were no front lines and other lines
there was no demarcation every bedroom
was a front line which means not one Jew
could practically actually fast on you
gimel other everyone could only make a
commitment that the Azer Hashem when we
win we will then fast
besides worn Jew there was only one Jew
who was allowed to fast on that day who
Esther the only one she was the only Jew
in the entire empire after Spanish who
could fast why because she was the only
one who was not a target nobody would
come into the palace and murder the
queen of a harish who he was so enamored
by but he saw hane professedly fond of
and the one who he told at katsuyama
house a year before
and months before I'll do anything for
you and for her he hung her mom and hung
the ten sons of homeland and gave the
Jews a right to self-defense nobody
would touch her so on the 13th day of
other who fasted one person so it's
called - Esther said now you understand
why it's called the fast of Esther she's
the only one of clientele who fasted
nobody else was allowed to everybody
else when they finished the war they
celebrated purium they took another day
then they fasted and that's why that
makes sense the Maseca Sorum says that
they established three fast days after
pouring to commemorate the fast of pace
off because many Jews actually had to
fast after put him there Tiny Esther was
after pour it not many all so the miss
after safe Moroni said they put together
the too fast that fast and the three
days of Esther and they have it after
poor him Thursday Monday Thursday but
the fast that we commemorated in the
thirteenth day of our their we're
commemorating the fast of Esther she's
the only one who fasted everybody else
fasted in theory faster than mine faster
than resolution so the name kindness s
is actually the most appropriate name
for the day it captures the day more
than any other day because it was really
the faster Vestas not just she planned
it she thought of it she conceived it
she told mortified to do it she said
I'll also fast that means she was behind
it here it's much more this fast she
wasn't only behind she was the only one
within it she could be the only one to
implement it nobody else everybody else
was a legitimate target remembering
again that the edict was never canceled
every drew was a target they were just
given a right for self-defense and when
anybody is in a position of self-defense
you have to be strong you couldn't tell
a boy about Mitzvah boy don't worry you
fast you know a lot of fast you're a
woman you taking care of the babies fast
I can't fast I can't fast I have to
protect me and my babies everyone has to
be protected
besides Esther alone in the palace chic
fast
of heart ah Bhishma hurt the children
faster than the three day fast that's
where the children fasted now we're
talking the fast eleven months later on
the day that they had to defend
themselves you're not out of fast
anything that could compromise your full
stamina and vigor you're not engaging
because because nefesh trumps everything
so therefore to say don't drink a cup of
water you have to drink a cup of water
you have to drink a cup of water it's
very hard to battle when a person is
starving and thoroughly thirsty and
dehydrated etc they have to drink even
if they don't have to eat a lot but they
have to drink because if it could even
minimize their strengths a little bit
there now lotto but Esther didn't have
anything to worry she and nobody was
attacking her so she and her palace
could fast alone which now brings us to
the next to the next level to the next
step I mean the next phase it is in this
very insight that we could begin to
appreciate the distinction between
Martha hi all of the other Jewish people
and Esther and I think the best way to
describe it is somebody once asked me a
question and it made me think this
person told me was a woman said to me I
have a hard time celebrating Purim I
thought she would tell me because of the
shallowness nightmare the pressure and
stress that people put on themselves
with the types of Salah commonness I
said why you know Sherlock Manas you can
give to one friend you can give an
orange and a hamantaschen you don't have
to stress yourself out you want to give
to a few friends give out that she said
no that's not why I have a problem with
Purim I said what's your problem with
poor him she said I always every year
poor him I cry for Esther said why do
you cry faster she says the war is over
everybody goes home
while you heard them I saw IRA of a
simcha Vasavi car with a zest ago she
stuck with a customary Anna Glick
everybody is drinking and partying my
life negate some of components my
mother's love unit and she stuck with us
Raiders I should get going from Persia
an inebriated monarch he said what a
tragedy what a sad story I cry fast
every year it was an interesting
observation but her question is also her
answer the question gives us insight
into Esther and this is the key
difference between Martha and all the
Jews versus Esther
indeed Mordecai was Esther's parent in
many ways mentor guy relative he took
her in after she was orphaned from her
father and mother according to some
opinions in castle they even got married
by he Lola basaltic rule abbas al allah
bias not only a daughter initially but
also ultimately a life's partner which
is why when Esther had to go into the
King without permission
she says - murder - a share of oddity of
oddity and we read it with the tune of a
huh
the car share of oddity of oddity why is
this such a sad moment in the Megillah
what does Esther mean sera she explained
something very very very very sensitive
and Rashi says that till this point
every time Esther was together with a
Farish it was against her will she had
no choice Vaati laka Esther Alamelu she
was taken to the king this would be the
first time she would initiate a
relationship the first art every other
time she remained passive she did what
she did and her life were saved but she
remained passive this is the first time
as Rashi says Sheila bonus acts of
Bharat say it's the first time she is
initiating a relationship which would of
course mean that she could not go back
to Marduk I
towards because since it wouldn't be by
coercion it would be willingly and
voluntarily the harsh air of oddity of
oddity she wouldn't be able to go back
to Martha hi it would also mean that
she's not only forfeiting physical
sacrifices she's forfeiting a spiritual
spiritual gift
she's forfeiting as you would say not
only something in this world but
something very precious to her soul
focaccia of oddity of oddity Esther is
the one who goes into the palace who
stays in the palace who lives in the
palace and who influences our heritage
from within the palace this is a
completely different experience than
Martha hi and now we have to ask
ourselves this question if there was a
Jewish woman a graduate from Saresh
sneers base Jakov in nineteen she
founded by jacques of in 1917 or 1918
and krakow and within a few years the
movement blossomed it was quite a
historic phenomenon to have schools for
girls in the turn of the 20th century
and our valedictorian graduate of a base
Jakov in Cracow or enlarge in 1938 in
1938 would be summoned to the Berghoff
to the residence of Adolf Hitler Maxima
in Bavaria and she would know she would
know that as a result of her work her
impact her influence her intervening the
Holocaust would not take place the war
September 1 1939 Uzziah Nell Otto Frisch
Sadiq tests would be avoided and the six
million Jews sent to their gas chambers
including one and a half million
children all of their lives would have
been rescued you see when we look at
history we never asked the question what
if things would have
turned out differently all of history is
a focus of what happened not what might
have happened but Azzo Holcomb Harrison
island
a wise person sees the future doesn't
only see what happened but also sees
what might happen and what I could have
do to avoid it and then when they avoid
it nobody knows the story and him well
there's nothing to write home about
nothing happened but that's the real
story that's the real story
Esther left her people left her nation
remained in the palace but till her last
breath Esther knew that because of her
every single Jew of her generation was
rescued and the Jewish people will
remain on eternal people is this a
tragic story or is it a joyous story on
one level there was sadness in the story
Esther herself doesn't understand how
she ended up in this place where do I
come here the Midrash says very famous
medicine to hilum capital Hough Bay's 22
and to hilum l'm not say a lie Ellis a
shocker Miz Marla dove it Kayle Kayle
lamar's of tony and our sages say who
said this poem of theorem
Esther Homolka my God my God why did you
abandon me and the way the metrics puts
it the way the Med which puts it is when
Esther was taken to our hush where is
the first time and she entered a Palace
full of pagan deities called base at
slummin says before Christianity but
I'll excuse me excuse my powder a house
full of deities Tichina left Esther the
Divine Presence left Esther because she
was in this place what does she say
Kayle Kayle Lama Asif Tony my God my God
why did you abandon me
ha dong shy gate Khmer Zedd Verona's
Korat sign something
was forced upon me you're looking at it
as though I did this willingly as though
I embraced this life for myself and the
matters continues
the first day she said Cayley the second
day she said Cayley the third day she
screamed out on the top of her lungs
Kayle Kayle Lamar Asif Tony and the
meddra says Cayley on the red sea Cayley
on Mount Sinai and now you abandon me
Esther felt it's a new error in Jewish
history the Gomorrah says Esther
salesman on Evora st represents the end
of prophecy l'm not saith allah ellis
hasha fire it's dawn before dawn is the
strongest of darkness the era of
prophecy comes to an end in the time of
Esther the word Esther means concealment
a noisy hast there a stir pond I by
Yamaha who I will conceal my face that
day and the mattress continues my God my
God why did you abandon me
why has the world collapsed on me miss
Donna allies situation Euler it's not
the way the world is supposed to go this
is not what I planned as a teenager I
was supposed to graduate school move on
build a future in the Jewish world build
a home built a family build an identity
this was not part of my resume I never
asked for this I didn't sign up for this
life they stand on my city shillelagh
and then she adds they stand no lies
Cinderella Moyes the jewish matriarchs
didn't have to deal with what i have to
deal with why Sarah was also abducted by
para and Pyrrha held her in his palace
for one night and he and his entire
family were struck with leprosy and
infections and diseases they didn't know
what hit them and para let Sarah go she
says and I have been for years in the
bosom of this Russia Marusia the a not
to isolate listen no miracles for me
they
entire system of the matriarchs is gone
Kayle Kayle llamas of Tony why did you
abandon me and the Madras continues she
says the word Kayle three times
Kayle Kayle llamas Afton Amy Betten Amy
Kaylee otter from the womb you have been
my god and now you have abandoned me
amra Esther Xiaohua Schmitz voice his
heart Alisha my God my God my God my God
has given me three mitzvahs three
opportunities for a powerful
relationship number one as the madrix
puts it neither kala and had Lucas had
Lucas an heir the acronym of Hana kala
which represents the whole system of
Castro's in the house
hot Lucas on a which is the lighting of
the candles before Shabbos which
represents the whole ambience and
atmosphere of Shabbos and the ability to
create light in the house and the third
Mitzvah the noon which is neither which
represents the entire foundation of a
family and a marriage and family purity
and intimacy and relationships permeated
with an ambiance of closeness and
sacredness and holiness Klum of volatile
a Kozma and Lamas of Tony have I
transgressed even one my God my God my
God have been loyal in all three why did
you abandon me this struggle only Esther
went through nobody else went through
Martha joy was a great and holy man he
gave the instructions but he didn't end
up where Esther ended up Mordecai could
never look and say Kayle Kayle lamaze
off Tony Martha had remained in a cocoon
of holiness Martha she remained in a
cocoon of spirituality Martha she
remained with his brothers and sisters
he had to struggle he had to stand up he
rent his garments he cries he weeps he
issues forth a fast he gathers all the
Jewish people the Metis describes how he
gathered 22,000 children and learned to
them it's incredible but who experience
the Hester who experienced the Aster
asked upon 9 the real concealment
life who went into the lion's den who
went into a palace of a various who
himself was to put it mildly an
inebriated intoxicated spineless immoral
promiscuous party animal who went into
that place and had to play the game and
had to fulfil her role and when point
when push came to shove in a moment of
crisis shroom our decide is the one who
said go and she said how can I go I'm
gonna die and murders I said this is why
you're there
but once that happened who is the one
who went who is the one who jeopardized
her lie his life not Martha
it was Esther who went and it was Esther
who at that point takes the initiative
and she tells Martha hi go gather the
Jews fast for three days and I will go
into the King at this point Mordecai's
influence comes to a halt that now
Esther tells more than I what to do and
she goes into the King and she makes one
party and she makes another party nobody
gave her these ideas
this was estrous own creativity of going
into that place and ultimately emerging
with a victory for her people that's why
the Megillah has the name of Esther
because herb role here is of a
completely different caliber and of a
completely different nature than anybody
else even people like Martha High of
such great power and such important
influence even on Esther's life the fact
that Esther is the only one who could
fast on your gimble other is because
she's only the only one who was actually
in the palace she is the one who's there
so now when you think about this on one
level it's a stir it's such a
concealment it interrupted her whole
life flow she turns to God and said what
did I do
am i such a bad girl am I such a evil
person that I asked for this tell me
what I did to be four years and let's
remember the poor a miracle didn't
happen a day after Esther became a queen
she became a queen on the seventh year
of his kingship the story of Purim
happens approximately five or six
years later what those five six years
look like people think Esther went into
the palace the next day there was a
party like who them I said no no no we
read it in 25 minutes I Micaiah
from my eben matter we go through 12 13
years and and if it's a fast ball career
11 minutes I'll give me give me 22
minutes and I'll give you the Persian
Empire okay I don't know what type of
ball Curtis you have I know some ball
carriers they do it in seven eight
minutes I know how you're supposed to
hear the Megillah but tried it didn't
happen in seven eight minutes it didn't
even happen in 35 minutes
it happened over more than a decade a
decade and a half for many years that's
why she says sorrow was one night by
pyro and the whole universe changed and
I'm there in his bosom for years there
was no climax and Esther didn't know
what's coming nobody knew what's coming
and one would think one would think in
such a moment in such a position Esther
would do one of two things either she
would at some point surrender surrender
her old identity just to be able to
integrate and have somewhat of a normal
life or Esther would become amazingly
stubborn defiant bitter miserable stone
like the uniqueness of Esther is that
Esther understood that she may not
understand how she may not understand
why but that she's no victim she was
sent into a place where very few people
were sent Sarah did not experience such
concealment
that's true Sarah comes from the word
SAR SAR means Sarah a princess a leaders
the words are common with shara shara
means leadership rulership Sarah comes
lured Sarah like yeah previous royal key
sorry similar convey Menasha Botelho
Esther is the word concealment who has a
baby and names them concealment we all
take for granted the name Esther it's a
beautiful name because we have
right and I know what a beautiful name
Esther is for personal reasons as well
however think about the first author of
the name what would your therapist say
what's your girl's name concealment or
better dark secrets wow that's a great
boost for self-confidence cover-ups
better what's your name cover-ups isn't
that great psychologically and yet we
continue to name our daughters Esther
concealment and the Gemara says this
what's the source of Esther and Tyra
Hoss their Astor pond a biome oh my face
is concealed because that is the whole
beauty and the power of Esther Esther
goes into a place will you pick up your
hands and you say Kayle Kayle Lama Asif
Tony why did you abandon me I feel
abandoned the course of my life that
rejection that sure
Chapter II of my life is completely off
balance this was not part of it I'm a
broad person but this was not part this
was not part of it right as Tevye says
God I know we're the chosen people but
can't you choose somebody else once in a
while or as Elie Wiesel used to say
chosen but not always for benefits so
Esther says maybe for somebody else this
is a great privilege Kayle Kayle lamas
of tony with wool the explanations of
them Andres and yet what Esther knows at
this moment is she's talking to God she
calls him my God my God my God why did
you abandon me I may not understand how
I may not understand why but Esther
never ever becomes a victim to her
circumstances Esther understand that she
was sent into a place of Hester she was
sent into a place of concealment there
is a mission here there was a divine
mission near a divine opportunity and
therefore every moment she remains open
and when she's convinced by Martha high
that this is the moment Esther says over
Hayne over Alamelu Hashem
hadass Oh me a day aimless because I say
got Lamaze and the words of Martha hi
are me idea who knows as we spoke in a
previous year Martha if I should have
not said who knows when you say who
knows it sounds like you're ambivalent
who knows maybe yes maybe not I'm gonna
tell you jump into the fire maybe maybe
maybe not
why me I deal with Martha I was telling
Esther is there comes a point in life we
have to open yourself up to that which
is beyond the dass if you go with your
rational calculations this whole thing
doesn't make sense I can't explain why a
lovely graduate of one of our best girls
schools in Muncie or in Shushan ended up
in this place
I don't know me or idea it's beyond us
which is why we celebrate Purim through
odd de loyola beyond us we spoke about
the eight sadhus you go beyond us Esther
with das with with regular rationality
what is this you abandoned me
Esther understands that here the
relationship is a completely different
type of relationship it's a relationship
if you look at it from a surface point
of view you feel neglected abandoned but
she has to dig much much deeper and
realize that the relationship must be
elevated to a place that is etched in
the core of her soul in a place that's
even beyond your rational consciousness
and she remains open to that and as she
remains open to that she says over LML
Akash alloy shadows it's not according
to the structure murder if I said me
idea and it triggers within her the
ability to go beyond her das and she
knows God is there even if it's
completely master I can't see it I can't
touch it I can't feel it I can't smell
it and from all calculations and
perspectives this whole thing doesn't
make sense and in that space she's now
acting as a classical Persian queen
we're making a party with hormone with a
horseradish and the Gemara says it was
so bad
that the Jews looked at Esther as the
ultimate trader who does she invite to a
party may work estranged Hummer imagine
an influential woman in 1943 has a feast
and who does she write she invites her
husband and naturally and who's the
guest of honor to celebrate at the party
she invites a Hitler that was hormone he
marched that was harm on a maxim oh mr
shalom
maybe it's the same thing the gomorrah
says the jews looked at esther in
either's as an expression
alpharetta you know what a father is so
though you - huh I forget there a trader
I began in Hebrew beget of the worst
degree maybe you're in the palace he is
now your guest Esther has to endure a
concealment on many levels nobody
understands what she's doing this is her
brilliant strategy she completely goes
into the role she doesn't run away but
in that place of absolute concealment of
absolute spiritual paralysis a place
that looks like the epitome of spiritual
death Esther is holding on to a secret
knowing that she is on a mission even if
she can't understand how and why and
this she could share with nobody
Mordecai could wink but he stays on the
outside he never goes in Esther goes
into the Hester she's the one who goes
in there and when she emerges from it
what happens all of the Jewish people
are saved until the end of generations
everybody looks at Esther and knows she
sacrificed everything her life turned
out completely different than she
imagined as a youngster and this is
after the trauma of not having a father
not having a mother she's been through
enough before this story it was almost
like trauma after trauma after trauma
and yet in that place in
Esther she reveals that our note II
asked her asked upon a by Emma who I am
present in the Hester you never ever a
victim to any darkness
you were sent into the darkest places to
be able to bring a unique light to the
world and when Esther breathed her last
breath and she looked at her life what
could she tell herself she could tell
herself that the cause of her every
single Jew in the Persian Empire has
survived not only for that generation
but today 2600 years later we could sit
here in a tent in 2019 era of Thainess
Esther Thompson I intense because of the
one woman so I told this woman remember
in the middle of a conversation with a
woman who's having a hard time celebrate
poor him I gave her the brief reversion
I told her I understand what you're
saying and I can't really answer your
question but I just want to give you
another perspective and I asked her how
would have you felt if you your whole
course of your life was transformed but
you knew that from 1939 to 1945 not one
Jew would have been murdered
because of you and because of you doing
crazy stuff and strange stuff not
according to the course of the life that
you designated for yourself
would you look at yourself in the mirror
and say I'm a tragedy I'm a victim of
tragedy or you would look at yourself
and be thankful I said you don't have to
answer me the question and this doesn't
mean that Esther didn't have a pocket of
sadness over certain opportunities that
other people had that she did not have
that maybe it may be true but at the end
of the day when Esther looks at herself
what does she see she sees a person
literally who saved the entire Jewish
world in a story that we would have
never known what it looked like because
Esther avoided it so when Purim is over
Esther comes to the hakumen and she says
Cavani ladoris I want you to establish
this day as a holiday
they say now anti-semitism next assess
don't talk to me about anti-semitism I
have been there they know everything
about the Jews let the Jews know about
the Jews the only one who thinks that
Jews are normal or Jews the only state
that thinks it's a regular state is
Israel nobody else thinks that Israel is
a regular country but he knows Israel is
different the Jewish people are
different
the Jews Redden's a sign that with
cosmetic surgery
psychologically we'll be able to out
Gentile the Gentiles so he dr. tour he
tells the famous story or they say from
him that it was once on an airplane and
he was wearing his Casa de garde round
black hat square white beard long frat
long black coat and a woman turns to him
in unison says you are the cause for
anti-semitism if you would only dress
normally and be normal and behave normal
and speak normal and integrate and
assembly there would be no anti-semitism
anymore and after torski in a perfect
oxford english asks the Yiddish speaking
woman what language are you
communicating and I fail to comprehend
the verbiage of your dialect what
language are you conversing in she says
Yiddish he says oh that's so sweet but I
don't really understand you because I am
Amish and she looks at him and she says
wow I love the Amish and he says why and
she says because you're a minority but
you maintain your heritage with such
dignity and pride I really respect you
kudos to the Amish and now it's his turn
to respond in Yiddish and he says a high
before give an Amish custom if lib yest
as it's been I eat some stirs a Smith
mirror if I would have been Amish you'd
love me now that I'm Jewish I'm one of
your own you're embarrassed by me I
bless you to be able to appreciate in
your own people that which you can
appreciate in other people so Esther is
here saying a message that reverberates
to this very day Jews
are always blaming anti-semitism if we
would only be different be normal have
longer noses shorter noses more money
less money more assimilated more
integrated more compromises they would
love as Esther says you're reading the
map wrong you don't know what's going on
how like super neither mouthed him are
their parts let Jews understand what
happened but that's not enough for
Esther Esther ones Kosovo nila tires the
Megillah should be written at first
glance you could say why does Esther
needed so much why does Esther needed so
much at the surface when I say Esther
wants to be famous she wants that for
the rest of our lives we should all read
about Esther Esther Esther Esther's life
was a very different life the reason
Esther wanted it written down is because
Esther wanted to teach the Jewish people
two major lessons many major lessons but
two of the major lessons is this number
one she wanted to teach every Jewish
woman and every Jewish girl for the
remainder of history that they should
understand that they have the ability to
change the world and they have the
ability to impact their entire people
and they have the ability to transform
situations from darkness into light
sometimes a person looks at themselves
and underestimates who they are Esther
wants Kosovo nila dirties write a
document that people a woman and a girl
should understand what type of light she
can have in the world what type of
impact she can have in the world and
what type of influence and
transformation would not be who she can
create to the point that she could save
single-handedly the entire Jewish people
that's why I still wanted to be written
now she wanted a Jewish woman to
understand what lay what potential what
creativity what atomic spiritual nuclear
power and energy lay in her neshama lay
in her soul but Esther wanted her to
understand us her and us to understand
one more thing and that is that
sometimes when a person looks at life
and all they can see is ha stare a stare
cover-ups concealments confusion
uncertainty and sometimes a person is
throwing into a place they didn't ask
for they didn't expect it at all they
can say is Kayle Kayle llamas aft Oni
why did you abandon me
why did you neglect me people sometimes
end up in circumstances physical or
emotional or psychological or physical
or spiritual and all they can say is
llamas of taani if you're my god why did
you abandon me and people often say the
same words holla I did neither I did
that Lucas and there I did I'm a fine
person nest and all I see Jerusalem the
world collapsed on me sometimes people
face situations in the past or in the
present of such adversity of such
incomprehensible pain and trauma that
they feel they ended up literally in
base at slummin and the stream is gone
there's no glimmer of hope I'm abducted
and it's not even by choice I didn't
choose this I didn't want this and to
the point that the results say it's
Hester to the point that in the whole
Megillah you won't find god's name
mentioned even once strange phenomenon
it's a safer of tomorrow there's not one
book of Tanith that doesn't have a
Seamus name it's all ultimately about
the God's plan for the world even should
I Sheeran the poem about love and
relationships has a famous name ruch a
fairy she shall have us you Takei
besides one McGillis Esther the whole
story is a story of our shikaka practice
a story of divine providence why after
the story doesn't matter if I say Baruch
Hashem Esther Baraka thank that Norfolk
garnished they make a young tiff with
mana Smetana Slavia and with mischievous
simcha three chapters we have to hear
about the party in this party in Shushan
are doing this and there's enough not
one word
God did thank God no think nothing
Weezer fisherman's name mentioned so
that result says if you do the acronyms
if you do the acronyms you'll see
for example assess a turistic refresh
and say yo voy remember the harm on her
ohm youth cave of let the King together
with home on come to the party your
voice hi melis film on high and as you'd
give up good that's where God is as esta
invites hummin to the party and the Jews
look at her as a traitor that's where
our son is
but the truth is that's the whole story
of McGillis Esther that there's a
situation in which you don't see shame
our son you don't see a divine plan you
don't see the vine revelation you don't
see a divine name you don't see the vine
province all you see is Caylee Caylee
your God Lamas of Tommy the kiddush the
revolution of Esther was going into that
place knowing that a Jewish woman and a
Jewish girl and by extension every
single Jew has that ability that
sometimes you're sent into a situation
it's unfathomable it's incomprehensible
I don't get it I don't understand it I
don't know how I don't know why the last
thing you do at that moment is you see
yourself as a depressed and despondent
victim rather there is a concealed and
very powerful opportunity and mission
here that you were sent on to the point
that going into that place you don't
have to run you don't have to deny you
don't deal ejido my's yourself you don't
have to enter into depression or
despondency but appreciate the fact that
in this place it may require your prayer
may require fasting I may require tears
and may require a thought but in this
very place you were sent and you were
sent in order to transform it and to
create while you heard them I saw IRA
for simcha visage and Vic are a Fralick
Emporium to each and every one of you
you still don't understand you know let
me let me put it differently I'm gonna
give you the answer that they ran rabbi
known is some gifts around I'm a sucker
son had one of the greatest showing him
this is what he tells us he says you're
asking how was Astra allowed to go to
the king yeah you have to choose death
instead of adultery
it's not like you have a situation yeah
a cafe which puts a gun to her head and
says either you kill this person either
you murder this drew or I kill you
so that look is you can't choose
murdering somebody over death you have
to choose death there so you're saying
my parents put a gun to her head says
either you choose death or you choose
adultery instead of choosing death she
chose adultery you wonder why she chose
adultery no she didn't choose anything
everything was forced Chris Wragge is
the king he's a dictator he's a tyrant
he takes her there's nothing she could
do the Gomorrah asks the question your
question the Gomorrah asks you could
look it up Talmud tractate Sanhedrin
page 74 beef defyin dollar diamond vase
why did esther not sacrifice her life
why did esther go along with this and
the gomorrah gives two answers one of
abaya and one rather robber says Kaka
eylem hyah which some explained it to
mean that esther was completely passive
she was not actively involved in this
relationship but - Vera did what he did
but she was passive before she was
passive she's not obligated to forfeit
his life that's one explanation there's
the other explanation
explanation I just said earlier from
there Ron remain innocent and he
basically says that the idea is that she
wasn't given a choice between adultery
and death she was basically she
basically had no choice a fresh marriage
is the king he's a tyrant he's a
dictator he could do he could do what he
wants he basically made a decree that
every woman that he wants could come and
he forced the Hershberger's to come
he forced Esther to come so wasn't like
he said either you do this or I kill you
and now the question is why did she
choose this over - she should have
chosen death there wasn't about a choice
there was no choice given to her she was
taken by the king and that was it that
was the issue to say that she has to go
commit why should she not commit suicide
well the commentators disgust us that
could be
Esther felt perhaps you don't just
commit suicide if this if you have to
kill yourself you kill yourself but if
not you don't then and maybe Esther felt
there was a to a submission here there
was a mysterious plan here there's
another explanation in Gemara the
explanation of raava who says that since
Akash Rajesh was doing this for his own
benefit he wasn't trying to have her
violate Yiddish gite transgressed
Judaism it was called lejano Scotsman's
for his benefit is completely his own
enjoyment there was no other agenda he
didn't even know she's Jewish so then
there's also no obligation for her to
forfeit her life but in any case this is
a very large discussion in allaha what
Esther was thinking as far as the issue
of average if if she ever came back well
as I said before the harsh air of oddity
of oddity that she understood that once
she's engaging in a relation for the
Irish willingly she won't be able to go
back to Marduk I usually the Gamora says
she could be by a hush vanish and then
she could go back to Martha how in fact
the governor says interactive Magilla
page 13 that that Esther spent time with
the King and then tavella's she would
submerged in water she would go to the
mikveh she would bathe and then she
would go back but hagar shalmar the fish
she would go to the bosom of martha hi
but once she's going and willingly that
would end now the interesting question
is did that indeed happen in other words
could Esther go back to Martha's hi oh
no she had relations with our country
marriage the story is not clear that I
can trade her just stretch out the
scepter and after the Marcia over there
massages Magilla page 13 clearly learns
that Esther was together with a hush
very willingly and therefore she
couldn't go back to Martha high right
with their children well that's a big
discussion yeah according to some
sources a restoration and and an Esther
had a baby right there you've Ishtar
your wish or Kyrie ratio Cyrus there's
different perspectives it's not so clear
there's a big debate about it but it's
accepted by many many commentators that
they had a child Theriot fish
well that's my point my whole point was
that Esther may have not had children of
her own that she could call Jewish
children whom she's raising in a Jewish
community as part of the Jewish people
that's true but let's remember every
Jewish child forever is really Esther's
child every Jewish child is her child
because she sacrificed her whole life
and she JEP jeopardized her life
that the Jewish people should remain
alive and she was successful so for the
rest of generations every child in a way
is Esther's child and when Esther
breathed her last she knew that she
could look at her life and say the
Jewish people are alive they have
survived they are thriving they will be
here forever and every child she could
take credit for this is also the
explanation that damaris says that like
per diem is like a second month and Tyra
there was the first month on terror and
then there was a new math entire like
what's the meaning of this because it
was a new era the first time there was
revelation everything was revealed
now it's Hester it's concealment Esther
goes into a palace
Kayle Kayle la maza Hani and yet she
discovers that there is a covenant
there's a relationship there's a mission
and in many ways that's the powerful new
math entire new covenant that's created
in the times the times of Purim yeah the
fast of Esther the two explanations well
there's really two ways of looking at -
Esther one explanation is that we fast
because over the three days that Esther
said we should fast that would make
sense then the name would make sense
however many of them are sham explained
that that cannot be the reason we fast
need Gilmore are there because that has
to do with the tightness that happen in
the month of Pitt Nissen in a month of
by the time of Pesach so you could say
you could answer you could say that they
made it a month earlier hooked era of
Purim but as I said thou foudre Hamra
been odometer Bodrum in history lacy has
died as a sinner in his seder of Phyllis
and tiniest he explains and he says that
it's not connected to that it's not
connected to the fast of Esther which
happened on Pesach where they fasted for
three
this is also discussed in the basis of
the miss Joseph discusses this the bath
discusses this this isn't or Irish I am
in Samantha fresh pain valve this is
discussed at length and the point that
all of these great hwacha commentators
make is that the reason we fastened your
demo audit is because on that day it was
nickel over on my damn ashram the Jewish
people gathered to beseech a Shem for
their victory because they had to fight
a war of self-defense and they made a
time as they had to make a tightness
because when we go to war and make a
famous and this says clearly in matter
it is a matters time Houma and parshas
voracious voracious chapter gimel you
could look it up addressed on home it
says that they created create a fast on
you'd Gimmelwald i mentioned also the
shelters the shelters comes from the
Ghanim from your bhai goin and the
shelters chapter 67 sama Sian her bhai
going says that they made a fast on the
13th day of other yes in fact the
shelters even tells us that this fast
continued even during the time of the
base are mukesh it's fascinating during
the time of the base i make this the
second base i make theirs they used to
fast on your gimel on their because in
the time of Esther they made a fast on
that day it's fascinating yet which
which is a Kaval to Kadesh because it
means that it was not instituted later
it was instituted much much much much
earlier as I mentioned the Gemara
Magilla of base says that youth gimel
are there is monkey he lola coil it's a
time for the gathering of koalas also
one interpretation is they gathered to
war they gathered to battle nickel who
they came they mobilized for battle but
another explanation and choices remain
of tom says no they gathered together
was a day of of Tiny's of prayer of
sleepless of a fasting of beseeching are
shem to be victorious to be victorious
and yet it's cold thymus ester the FASTA
Mester when apparently it's not really
connected to Esther I mean Esther is the
one who got commission from a cash wage
that the Jews should be able to fight
the wars but ultimately dis fast has
nothing to do with Esther it has to do
with Claudia struggle came together too
fast because that's what we do we fast
on a day of war in order to besiege
Hashem and that's always a slick ice and
we
we give sadaqa and we gathered to our
sham for success so this was this was
the the the the big finish that based on
the toys EFT and tightness when I
mentioned their self designers in
chapter 2 and the Schalke nor Osiris hi
I'm Simon tough go fine olive I think
that those who actually have to fight
and go to war there now lot of fast
sure Loyola Shabri come they don't want
to weaken their vigor and their stamina
and therefore since every single Jew had
to defend himself or herself
so therefore nobody was a lot of fast on
yet gimel ah there it was oh wait bye
everybody was only a commitment it was
potential it was theoretical it was not
actual besides one Jew or one Jewish and
that is Esther who was a lot of fast you
understand that yeah so this is a big
this is a big discussion and after I
name and there is shine and why exactly
do we why exactly do we fast no well the
question is why is it called
tynus Esther why is it called kindness
Esther the faster faster
yeah well if well let's listen it's very
interesting because if you look you know
you know we why was Esther protected
well it says it in the Megillah Martin
chapter for Mordecai tells Esther alte
dami been officially male based on MELAS
Nikolai you hood them don't think you're
going to escape to the palace and you
will avoid the fate of all of the Jewish
people in other words what is Mordecai
clearly saying that if st remains in the
palace she will not be targeted she will
remain alive and she may think oh let me
stay in the palace I'm gonna stay alive
so Martha's I said no no no if you
remain silent the Jewish people are
gonna be saved anyway but what do we see
here clearly from Martha's words that in
the palace was a place of refuge
nobody's walking into the palace and
murdering Esther that means Esther did
not have to defend herself on you'd get
Malad there so therefore she was the one
who fasted so this is like a malt liquor
cuz that means that on the actual
day of you'd get Moe other the Jewish
people davon for victory but who was a
lot of fast and who can actually spend
the day in brayer
and in fasting only one drew Esther she
represented the whole cloudiest role as
the MK HeLa where all the other Jews can
only fast after poor him after they came
back from war and they celebrated then
they could make up and compensate for
their resolution on the day of war and
they can actually fast right
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