Unmasking The Purim Story - Rabbi Lazer Brody

am my lord it's from you my lord it's all good my Lord good evening from Merit good evening from Land of Israel this is laser bro a very special lesson tonight we're going to tell the story of puim and it's a long lesson uh so hold on to your seat but I hope it's going to be an exciting one and we will see how it's like a template for everything that's happening today for the G this was the re the Redemption was only a partial Redemption but we're waiting for the full Redemption and we'll see I'll just preface by saying that when we read the book of Esther the Milla Vester on P Knight it seems like everything happened all once really quick but really from the beginning to the end is 13 years transpire and this is the same thing that's going to happen we going to see maybe there was a terrorist hit there was an election of people and one thing but all these things when mssiah comes it's going to look just like Millis eser like the Book of Esther okay so we're going to go back to the year 369 BCE which is 2,392 years ago and there was a mafia Kingpin and his name was aash ver he ascended the Throne of Persia and he was not the rightful heir to the Persian Throne he wasn't a blue blood but he muscled his way into Power by overthrowing the Persian king Darius this is Darius I first he was a successful warlord aash was a very successful warlord and he captured a vast Empire it was 127 countries and extended from India to Ethiopia all the the known world that time well to legitimize his status but but it was a crook that he sees the throne Aus married vashi vashi was the daughter of the Babylonian King bhatar bhatar he was uh his death was predicted by Daniel in the Book of Daniel when bhatar drank out of the Holy vessels that his father neader who destroyed the first temple carried back to uh to Babylon and that that we died but this is bhatar was the father vashi thear who was the Babylonian ruler that destroyed the first temple this was vash's Grand father okay now King aash married her just to Anchor his his Rule and show he's legitimate here he's got a proper blue blooded Queen and he ruled with an iron rule just like a mafia Chief just like a mafia Dawn that know you didn't go against aash veros and if someone went against aash veros had a very short Future Okay so there was either loyalty to him or execution there was no Middle Road and the AAS Reign okay so aash veros he declared shushan the Persian Capital the capital wasn't pers and shushan was in media what it happened is Nader he brought King Solomon's holy Throne King Solomon had this magical throne with all these animals and then only King solom could sit on the throne nadet tried to sit on the throne and he got kicked by one of the golden lions and then said Batar tried to set the throne and he became Li from that he got bro broken leg well uh aash was tried one time and he saw that's it and he just get K right out so he figured he couldn't move the throne the throne was in media so he went to shushan and he brought some Egyptian engineers and he told the Egyptian Engineers to build him a throne just like the one that belonged to King Solomon in the Holy Temple okay so as soon as that Throne was completed they completed building them aish declared a big Feast where he invited all the diplomats and all the the rulers of all the 127 provinces of his kingdom and this Feast lasted for six months okay all the leading Representatives every nation were there and this was uh was also Diplomat he wanted to solidify his role okay at the end of The halfe Feast he made another s day Feast for the locals the people of shushan and at this Feast to he wanted to really solidify his popularity among the local masses that loyalty so what he did he he took the most common people and treated them like royalty he gave them whatever they wanted Wine and Food and clothes and DED them like dignitaries and sobody say when did they ever have a ruler that treated them like aash so that the way he he gained their loyalty now to the second Feast AOS also invited all of the Jews this was a plot uh it was the idea of the wicked hmon hmon who became his prime minister now hmon was a great grandson of ASF okay ASV had a grandson amalik amalik was Hon's great great-grandfather and just as asov and amalik were Arc enemies of the Jewish people uh hmon he hated him he hated him with a passion okay he became aash vish's leading Minister and vice Roy of all of Persia as he despise the Jews and he set a trap for them and he knew that if he would lure them into this party he'd say oh yeah they have the gloser food and everything special for the Jews but if you learn them into this party where they would drink Persian Wine and eat Persian food and there's one thing an ancient Persian custom ancient Persian custom provided women for all the guests and it's that's all they need to do the Jews and that that they're finished because it's known thing that uh the El the god of the Jews cannot stand debauchery cannot stand debauchery so this is what hmon wanted to reduce them to now morai he was a great leader at the time morai was exiled one of the main in the great assembly and before the destruction Temple he was a member of the Sanhedrin and morai was from The Tribe of Benjamin he learned of hmon Sly SCH his scheme and so he urged all the Jews to avoid the palace and and don't get it get this a trap and they're trying to lure you into transgression well the Jewish mainstream this is so similar to what's going on now the Jewish mainstream was very political correct and then we listen to this extremist Rabbi that's not going to tell them how to get along with the local with the local leaders and they needed to get along with AOS and they need to get along with hmon this is a way of keeping peace and and not to show no what he do to sit separate from women on the bus no we have to mingle with the Persian they had all these excuses for transgressing all the Torah and what morai did he just left town he and the LA of Jews they left town they didn't want to be there okay went far away and all the politically correct highbrows they ignored morai and they attended the feast in the palace and they ate the food and they drank the wine was a very serious wine drinking this idolatrous wine because it's used in in in Idol service it's called y a very serious serious offense and even worse than this offense is that the Persian women that they messed up with and then when all that happened the axe of a Heavenly decree fell down on the Jews and from above said if this is way they're going to are that there was they allowed they allowed the Wolves of haymon's den to just go free and there was a decree of annihilation okay we'll see how that that happen so meanwhile before the decree of annihilation came down uh was completely he became drunk as a skunk and while he was drunk he was bragging of his riches and his Empire and his wife vashi and said his wife vashi is proud because she was a blue blood and he he was a commoner but he was bragging about her beauty she's more beautiful than any woman in the world well there was this one drunk Diplomat and he wasn't afraid of Vash she says okay if you prove it to us prove it to us you say your wife's are most beautiful in the world let us see okay so a she couldn't allow to back down from a dare somebody dared that to show that his wife is most beautiful so he su in vashi and vashi was supposed to appear less clad than a bikini in front of the guest and her birthday costume okay now vashi was a Jew hater just like her grandfather Nader that destroyed the temple this was the Comm denominate Vash had with aish was also a big Jew hater and he and hman were best friends especially aash had a lot of respect because hymon was also Mafia Kingpin and hymon amassed a lot of money what did hymon do hmon stole the riches after the temple was destroyed hmon hmon maned to steal a lot of the gold to the Judean Kings and that's what made hmon Rich okay now since vashi the daughter of Batar and the granddaughter of nuad was a blue blood uh she had slaves and her slaves were Jewish girls and she used to force her Jewish girls to work on Shabbat do on meting tast just per in principle that they couldn't keep the Shabbat she wouldn't let them keep Shabbat okay but she resented her horse trader husband telling her that she's got to do this charade this in her this unclad charade in front of all these diplomats and uh especially there were Jews there too and she hated the Jews and she's going to do that in front of the Jews no way okay but the midis tells us that she would have done it she would have done it but at that moment she sprouted a tail like a monkey so when she undressed she F she she had a tail like a monkey and she couldn't appear in front of the tail this is from from the mid there a lot of things we see we so not only are we telling the story according to the the Milla but all the background mid try to give a complete picture of uh what's happening that what the events that led up to Pim okay so vashi refused she refused refused to appear for aash aush was really angry I you don't refuse the king and hmon right there he said to aash she says wait a second if you get dissed you get your wife disrespects you the queen disrespects you in front of all the diplomats and and people of all the nations and that's gonna be crazy nobody's gonna be able to control their wives all the nations this is terrible she's got to be executed so aashish couldn't be backed down from hmon hmon says you got execute her and he executed her okay on the spot that that's it she was executed and mid tells us that this was her punishment for making all the Jews making the Jewish girls violate Shabbat as slaves and it wasn't a mere coincidence you see everything the almighty does is measure for measure when was vashi executed on the Sabbath day okay she violated the Sabbath she caused Jewish girls to violate the Sabbath she was executed on the Sabbath day okay it's measure for measure and that's everything you could see Divine Justice everything now all through the Milla we don't see hashem's name written a single time but all the time see a hand and the Shem these are all miracles according to Nature quote unquote but we see nature is a simply a it's it's a poring disguise a masquerade for Hashem okay so vashi is now no more and aish is sad he has remorse that he killed her not only that is is a is a man of lust and he's with that a queen so what they did they got an idea from one of the servants and they said have make a an international beauty contest and bring the best looking girls from all the 127 countries and pick a new Queen so he loved that idea and they brought all the most beautiful girls from all 127 uh provinces of the Persian Empire and this is uh the international beauty pageant okay the winner going to be A's new Queen so the most beautiful girls they came to the Palace in Shan okay and then aashish personally inspected quote unquote each one of them all right so the candidates they receive whatever they want the candidates receive whatever Beauty treatment they wanted whatever clothes they wanted how they wanted to prepare before they went and see the king because it was a a big thing they went and see the king one time and not necessarily sometime the king would ask for a second time but that was rare and this is they received all this treatment Now esther who was known to be a beautiful young woman Esther was an orphan she's from The Tribe of Benjamin she was a first cousin of Mori Esther's parents were both killed and in destruction of the first temple and she was exiled with morai and morai was was first cousin but he was much older than her was old enough to be her father and he raised her like a daughter so uh Esther they saw this that uh she was good she was summoned also and uh she also had to go but she kept it secret the fact that she was Jewish she kep her connection with morai she kept that secret and Esther she didn't ask for anything I said what beauty treatments you want say nothing what special clothes you want nothing she was so modest and she was so kind and all the other girls girl they're flaunting their beauty this that Esther she was completely different and everybody that met her they were just amazed with her charm and we see this when we talked about Bond of auna we talked about picking a soulmate Esther she was by far the the one of the best looking girls by far but way not at all but she had this light she had the glow of hashem's light on her it's called the and she spoke with with compassion everybody that met her was enchanted by her they they simply loved her because her meus her character traits were so good and so wholesome everybody loved her and when she finally went into the king she went to the king dressed in her sh about clothes and not no makeup the King was enchanted by her and the King chose her above all the other girls and once again Esther didn't tell the king that she was Jewish he knew the king knew she was an orphan that's all he knew and every day Esther's cousin morai some people call her uncle but technically was her cousin wasn't uncle they call her uncle morai you see some sources that say morai was Esther's Uncle because of the difference in age but he was technically her cousin he would go to the Palace every single day to find out what's going on with Esther andn he has his Connections in the palace because morai 2 was one of the king's advisers and one day he overheard a conversation between two tarians tarians is from the island of tarish it's one of the Greek Islands okay and their name was Big Town in perish and they had a bone to pick with the King and they plotted to murder the king they were going to make assassinate the king well they were tarians and they spoke in tarish language now since morai was one of the men of the great assembly all the members of the Sanhedrin the 70 member High religious Court in the betam MDES and the Holy Temple everyone had to understand 70 languages if you couldn't understand 70 languages then you were allowed to be in a Sanhedrin because had to hear cases from all over the world and they heard people Advocates plead in their native tongue because you can't speak in a foreign tongue like you can express yourself in native tongue so the Dion the religious Court judges the members of the Sanhedrin had to understand the 70 languages so big T and terish they didn't imagine that morai understands their language and they spoke freely in their native their native tongue in front of morai and he found about their plot to assassinate a so what morai did he told Esther and Esther in turn informed the king and she credited the Intel to morai so they found out from morai that uh your majesty you better check out these two okay and they checked out these two and they saw that they were placing poison they caught him in the act of placing poison in the King's Wine in the king's goet okay so right away they were condemned to die they were killed they were hung on the Gallows and it was recorded in the book of Chronicles the aish the Persian book of Chronicles was recorded that Mori had saved uh the King's life okay then the book is closed and it's sent into the archives all right now let's go back to hmon hmon as we said was a descendant of Malik and hmon was Esau's grandson an arch enemy of the Jews uh he too was a mafia Crook and he got rich from steing stealing the Treasures of the Holy Temple and the judan Kings and so he had this common language with aish because they were both Mafia kingpins so the king made hmon prime minister and the King even issued an order that everybody has to bow down to hmon okay so hmon claimed that the Jews were the source of all the Empire's troubles and he said that they they're disloyal to the king he said in uh we see this in the in the third chapter of uh the Book of Esther n he says they keep themselves apart from everyone and they have their own laws and they're disloyal to the king and they don't deserve to live well hymon even offered the king 10,000 silver pieces to offset any Financial loss that he might have from persecuting the Jews maybe the king's got some Jewish businessman he does deal with maybe King might lose money so amamos say gonna offset he'll pay from his own pocket to offset any losses but the king then remember aashish was not fond of the Jews either he says he says hey man you could keep your money but uh you go do the Jews whatever you wish whatever you feel like so aish then removed his signate ring and signed the paper they sign with wax like they did in the old days now once that is the two things happen when the king removes the signant wing and signs the wax it means it's it's a decree that's irrevocable can't be taken back and it also grants absolute power so he gave hmon is signate ring that means that any decree that hmon is making is absolute power so wicked hmon had a free hand and he could alone he could issue decrees and orders and he just felt he could determine the fate of the Jews and they were completely as his mercy and this is what he dreamed of because he knew this was a dream of his great-grandfathers from all the way back to amalik and to asov and finally he's gonna fulfill his dream he's going to annihilate the Jews so he wasted no time in carrying out his evil designs and he immediately sent for the king's scribes and they command they prepared Royal decrees and they sent them by messenger to all 127 provinces well the first decree there were two decrees the first decree was an open order to all the governors in the provinces to arm the population on the 13th day of the Hebrew month of a that's where we are right now okay the 13th day 13th day of Hebrew this year comes out this coming Monday and that's the day of the fast of Esther okay this was the day that they said in the first decree this is in ented for a massacre of quote a certain harmful people unquote didn't say who it was okay now that date how was that dat determined was casting by Lots was a lottery lots that means a lottery okay and uh in fact the word porim is the Persian word for Lots or Lottery and because the day of the annihilation of the Jews heaven forbid was chosen to be the 13th day of puim which now it's the fast syester commemorating that that that's why we call the the holiday poring because to remember the Lots the lottery okay and that's an ancient Persian so the identity of this particular group that was the second decree on the third we're supposed to open up the decree when they armed and ready to go ready to mobilize and the second degree says it's the Jews go kill all the Jews okay so the second degree spelled out the marching orders of all the Army all the people and all the 127 provinces and both decrees we said they were duly signed sealed and delivered to every province in the Empire and they bore the king's Royal signate and they were irrevocable so hyon he took every precaution to keep his plan secret but there one thing he didn't take s Hashem okay Hashem he upsets the the evil plans of of the the the tyrants and the Haven wanted the Jews to be taken by surprise all of a sudden surprise attack on on the 13th of of OT and that's it and that way they couldn't avert their Doom but hmon didn't know that Eli Elijah the prophet came that night to morai in a dream and Elijah the prophet is's the wonderful protector who did like Archangel that every time time of trouble Elijah the prophet comes to to our our Aid and he informed morai of the impending danger and the decree and he revealed all follow Haven's wicked wicked scheme and uh also also explained to Mori said you should know that this is a punishment for all the politically correct people all the people that that went to the the ball and and did everything what they did wrong the eating and the drinking the debauchery and this was the punishment but he revealed to morai there is one way to get worse punishment and this is something that King David taught us that even if a a sharp sword sword is on someone's neck they shouldn't lose hope and this was uh see this King he said that was a death penalty against him and he didn't made chuva All Through The Years chuva can under overturn every single decree this is the secret that Elijah the prophet told morai there's a decree it's irrevocable but the only thing that can overturn it is chuva not military might and not political uh attempts and and making new laws and legislature only chuva only penitence penitence penitence so when morai awoke the first thing he did he made a major effort in penitence and he went out in the city and a bigger cry yelling out that all the Jews of shaan there's a decree of annihilation they off to make uh chuva and but people B they believed him because they morai wouldn't make this up and the horrific news it spread like WF far throughout the city of shushan the bill the Jews were filled with over enormous fear and big sorrow and spread all out the the the provinces all of the Empire and they knew that they were doomed to perish on the 13th of otter morai he took off his clothes and he wore sackcloth like a like a potato sack something that MERS used to wear and he put ashes on his head acting just like a mourner and he came to the gate of the palace and Es because every day would go find out what's going on with eser so this time he came instead of his royal king advisor's clothes he came in sackcloth and in ashes and Esther's Faithful Servants told her she look look at morai is in great distress and she became immediately Disturbed and she wanted to hear from morai why why is he so upset so but first she sent him a change of clothing let him change clothes because you're not allowed to come near the palace dressed irrespectively person has to come to Palace in his best finery can can wearing a potato sack a sackcloth that a mner wears so morai he refused the clothes he refused to take off the sackcloth he said no instead he sent word to Esther through her faithful servant hatak uh our sages tells us that hatak was Daniel Daniel was knocked down from his old position of advisor to Batar that the the king's father-in-law and now he was just a simple servant but his name in Persian was but this was really the Prophet Daniel and Daniel went to tell Esther of the Royal Decree which was now made public in shushan she didn't even know about it okay morai begged her this now go speak to the King on behalf of your people now M told her she's now allowed to reveal that she's Jewish and to beg for the Jewish people okay but Esther sent a message back to morai she says I'm ready to do whatever I can dear cousin but you know the Royal order and hmon made a royal order that if anybody came into the king uninitiated in other words the king didn't invite them uh then they would be executed and unless the king holds out his golden scepter holds out this golden scepter and you touch the end of the golden scepter and then that means that you're okay but if the king doesn't hold out his golden scepter the person does touch it right away they yank him out and he's executed and Esther says I don't think I'm in favor of the king because he hasn't asked to see me for the last 30 days so how can it be sure that it be pleased to see me I might be executed and that way I'll die in vain so morai said to her he sent back a message he says uh my young cousin that are words are well meaning and well spoken but he said my child if you think you're going to save yourself and your people will perish the exact opposite your people will be saved and you'll perish okay but uh if you don't stake your life for them you don't T sh your life for them then you don't understand that's what you're doing in the palace you're not pal is there to rule you're there for this time this is why Hashem put you there okay so you have to trust in Hashem now and you have to take your life in your hands and and go this is time for your dedication so Esther now realized the grieve situation on her shoulders she's got the fate of all the Jewish people on her young shoulders wow and she'd gladly risk her life for people once she realized that but this seemed like a hopeless situation she knew about the decrees and she know the decrees were irrevocable there's nothing to do and all the pleas It Whatever how could she plead to the king and how to convince the king and the King his own decrees I couldn't call him back but Mori was right there was no other choice there was nothing else to do she was the last result and we see often times people that think that Judaism is chauvinistic there are many times in Jewish history when the history of our people depended on one woman we had a lesson about Kaneka we saw about UD makabi depended on her uh at the time of the Canaanite Wars depended on d'vorah and Yael Yael who killed the wicked King CIS and now we're faced with Annihilation and all the fate of the Jewish people depends on one woman Esther okay so if anything just the ex opposite of of chauvinism but Esther had one quested morai says okay I'm going to do I'm putting my life in my hands she had her heart in her her heart in her throat she's going to go into alash veros but she said to Mori gather all the Jews of shushan young and old alike and pray and fast on my behalf for three days no easy so I'm gonna go in there and she says me and my maidens we too Esther's Maiden she Pi good Jewish girls as her maidens except and then and they they they they had kosher food she made for them goer food she let them keep Shabbat she encourage she had a good atmosphere she says my and my maidens we will also fast for three days and after the fast of three days we do Sirus chuva you know three days of not eating and not drinking and just repenting person's like an still person's still alive he like an angel and then she then she is going to go into to the king now this is such a moving scene in the Milla because the three days the coincide with Passover according to you're not supposed to fast on Passover but Mor knew this was pish that the life of the Jewish people the future depended on it so they even the fast extended through Passover night we're talking about Passover night okay now not only the Jews in shushan but all the Jews under 27 provinces they agreed to fast to and they responded with great mourning and wailing and crying not only that but morai he loved the children he invested so much in child education you can see Mor's priorities he invested so much in the children he himself he was a great uh religious court judge and a great T great Tom big Torah scholar he invested much of his effort at educa the kids so what he did he dressed in sackcloth in his morning clothes he went in the school Courtyard of the main Jewish haer the main Jewish elementary school and he gathered all the kids around him and all the kids around them they too dressed in morning clothes and sackcloth and they all cried and yelled out in prayer to Hashem and idrish tells us that the skies were locked but what pierced the skies were the prayers and the tears of these Jewish children just it's amazing you see now you see what's going on I don't know what's going on we need mashiach really bad now and and land of Israel not good things are going on and there's ter every day and this that if you saw the pictures of the two little Jewish boys the two little Martyrs I know one thing but that's got to tear the heavens wide open I I hope that mashia will be here very soon so that's the power of these little kids that learn Torah so on the third day of the feast wow we're in the height of tension and Esther mustered all of her courage and she made her way to the throne to the room where the throne is and despite a weakness of three days no eating and no drinking she could barely walk she boldly ignored the king's bodyguard that was one of Hon's grandsons and she entered the throne room and King was surrounded by his in by his attendants and just as the king saw Esther standing at the entrance she looked very pale but then again Hashem gave her an aura of loving kindness andem made her beautiful she radiated like an angel and so right away a didn't want to but an angel made him extend his hand and give her the S the scepter okay so she right away touched the scepter and that's it she's saved okay that's it so she took a deep breath and that's the first stage she went through but then says to her what troubles you my dear Queen Esther and not characteristic to him he spoke to her he spoke to her like a human being he spoke to her gently he said my dear Queen Esther what is your request even if have you asked for half of my kingdom I'll Grant it to you so Esther was not yet ready to reveal her true intention and she merely asked the king that she wants to invite him to a banquet and she wants him to bring his prime minister hymon and the King immediately granted a request and she says yeah come tomorrow night to banquet so Esther had many reasons she was a bright young lady she had many reasons for inviting hmon instead of inviting the King Alone first she didn't want the Jews to rely on her so she made herself look like a traitor what Esther she a Jewish girl we're all fasting and she's making a feast for for the king and she's eating with hmon too the big Jew she wanted to make she and she knew that the Jews would be angry at her and they had nothing to do they couldn't depend on it they' even asked pray for hasem even harder and harder and harder so she did something that's exactly the opposite that most politicians do rather than ingratiating herself with her people she made herself look terrible in the eyes of her people that's the first thing and then uh she wanted to allay any suspicion on Hon's part that Ammon maybe if hmon thinks you know maybe he's got smell something that maybe there's a connection between Ester and morai no she didn't want this but she wanted to solidify her so her relationship with hymon or apparent relationship with hmon so hmon wouldn't be suspicious and here hmon he's full of ego not ego he says oh the Queen she's not inviting anybody but me she so crazy about me and this and that okay and then third she wanted the king to become suspicious of hmon hey what's going on with hmon and the queen that uh hmon gets an invitation to this candlelight dinner that she's invited me to what what's going on here okay so when the king and hmon appeared at Esther's banquet the King again asked her eser what's your request I'll Grant you have the kingdom okay and so she says my one request is the king should attend a second banquet tomorrow night so now she didn't say the CR Second Bank now the king is really becoming curious he's eating up with curiosity so she promised that she promised the time no more games I'm gonna de close disclose my true wish tomorrow night so hymon was overjoyed the Esther wants to see him again the second night a row and he says even the queen recognized my importance is right away his ego was so inflated he says who could compare to be a power and wealth and as he left the palace he's so happy left the palace he morai and morai defied him by not giving his usual homage Mori refused to baow down to him and just the fact that one little Jew this little Fiddler in the roof die he won't bow down to more the whole Kingdom 127 nations of the world they're all bowing down and one little Jew doesn't bow down to hey and he says all my riches my power everything it's not worth me because one little Jew won't bear down to me if we take those words in Hebrew called the last letter of each word spells hashem's name that's we see aem's it's an indication of of hashem's hand behind everything that's going on but hmon rushed home and he granted a big a big family conference and with all his sons and his wives and advisers and they were assembled in his Rich palatial home this the prime minister's home and hymon began to vast of all his the honors they given to him here he was in the banquet tonight with only the king and the Queen and now the queen invites him again to another banquet and with no other minister but me and all these honors but then he says all these honors are worth nothing to me as long as that Jew won't bow down to me okay he says I I can't wait for the 13th of vad 13th of vad was the day he knew what the the day of the annihilation so heon's wife zarish she also she was also just as cruel and just as anti-semitic as he was uh she said well what's the big deal let's hang morai okay no I don't know of any other Jew that's ever been Sav from The Gallows so let's build a Gallow that's 50 cubits High a cubit maybe half a meter 25 meters high so you're talking about that a Gallow the size of an eight-story building okay and let hang Mori from it and she says go ask the king tell the king you want to hang morai he's probably gonna not bother you you'll be granted your wish it's no no big deal ask the king and that's okay so hmon was delighted at the idea so right away he raced said no time and he went out in the backyard and he and his sons they right away started wreting this 50 Cubit high G The Gallows to hang morai uh that night the king could sleep and we say in the Milla the king couldn't sleep when the king it doesn't say the king with illusion to the King of Kings Hashem couldn't sleep on that night here we are and there was a great clamor in heaven and the tears and the prayers of the distressed Jews especially the children and their sincere repentance their true remorse they broke through and the gate reached the Heavenly Throne so nobody slept that night Mori and Esther spent the whole night in prayer and pleading to the almighty Esther not only that she was busy preparing for the banquet for the next day for the king of hmon and even the wicked hymon didn't sleep that night because he was busy building The Gallows for morai Mor but then a grave suspicion slipped into A's heart he was tossing and turning in bed he couldn't fall asleep and he figured what's what's going on this is he's a mafia guy he smells in what what's this twice in a row Esther inviting hymon to the banquet what's going on here there must be some faithful servant that can solve this for me but he says maybe maybe I do have a faithful servant and I haven't treated him properly so he called for servants to bring him the book of Chronicles and they read book of Chronicles and they read recent places well the servant that read bought the book accom was shami that was he's hmon sons and he opened the book that night and he WR WR way to the story of Mori uh saving the King's life and he uncovered the pl of big town and terish and shami right away turned to another page but the leaf turned back the book miraculously kept turning back to the page where uh Mori saved the King's life so the king said to shami said what are you turnning the pages back and forth and he says the trembling voice say my eyes are failing and his mind fail his voice was failing too and suddenly the words began reading themselves eles what happened Hashem sent the angel Gabriel Gabriel the archangel began reading the story through shami's throat of mori's loyalty and of course he didn't admit the slightest detail and EAS as Gabriel read the king's eyes began to close in the seventh year of the reign of the mighty and illustrious King aashro long me live forever two treacherous chamberlains victed and terish the tarians they were discovered plotting against the life of the great and illustrious King aush the loyal Chief Chamberlain morai the Jew recently appointed head of the king's personal attendance who overheard the plot he reported to her majesty the gracious Queen Esther the Queen recounted the plot to Majesty of the king the two naves were caught red-handed having poisoned the king's Royal goblet and they confessed that they were executed for high treason so the faithful and loyal Chief Chamberlin morai the Jew should be reward at the earliest date and then the king says what happened to morai what reward you do he said find out the other CH the other the other attendant said nobody ever gave him anything said what never gave him anything so the king dreamed he lulled into a steep sleep because hearing the voice of an Angel it was so soothing hearing the voice of Gabriel he loved it to sleep while he was sleeping he had a dream he had a dream that hmon was standing over him with an upraised sword and hmon was about to kill him so he right away woke up with a start and he heard some footsteps outst and says who's there King said and hmon the servants the servant says Hon's out here and the King said this is no dream at all he thought that the servant said well bring him in let him enter and then the king he pulled a fast word on hmon he says tell me hmon my wise prime minister and counselor what should be done to a man whom the king wishes to honor well hymon he's an arrogant hymon he can't say anything he blind with arrogance he thinks that the the king is talking about him so he says if the king wishes to honor me thought well it's about time that the king honors me but assuming an air of indifference came and said well the man that the king wants to honor he should be raid in the king's own apparel and he should wear the Royal Crown and he should ride through the streets in the king's clothes and on the king's finest horse and while he's doing he should be that one of the other King's advisers say so it should be done to a man whom the king desires to honor okay the king says he said he says you see I'm right the king said to to himself he thought to himself that villain who wants my own Crown so he came right away uh with a twinkle in his eyes he caught hmon he says okay hmon go very quickly and everything you said do it to morai well the words were like a thunderbolt to hmon water to rise and it left him speechless but he had bowed headed trembling knes he had no choice hmon had to go and search for morai and at that moment morai was sitting in the synagogue at night all night long with the children and uh lifting up his eyes he saw that hyon's at the window well morai was saying his last prayers when hmon came in and hmon waited patiently for him to finish and then he said morai the son of Abraham the Hebrew arise and put on these Royal Crowes the the Golden Crown you have to come with me so morai says uh honorable prime minister Mor spoke to him he spoke to them honorably okay if I da the Royal robes in the state I'm in I'm been fasting for three days I'm unclean I've got Ash on my head I I I can't wear the king's clothes like this so hman nodded heon the mafia guy he was really in his younger day he was a slave hmon sold himself into slavery in morai way back when land of Israel okay hmon was really a slave and hmon was a barber and hmon knew that he couldn't fool morai now they were alone okay so he took morai to the public baths and he cut he bathed morai washed him just like the slave washed his feet washed his and and cut his hair and anointed him with the fine oils just the way a slave treats a master so having finished this is a morai taking the The Arrogant hmon this is hasem doing it by way of morai and that's this is the whole theme of puim that everything our enemies plant to do us Boom the tables turned right around on their head so everything hmon wanted done for himself he's now doing it for his worst enemy morai okay so instead of annihilating morai he's honoring morai okay and dresses morai he bathes morai Barbers Mori morai now looks like royalty and they go to the horse King's big great big horse like a big size of a Thor bread much bigger than a quarter horse in a rapan horse big Thor bread and morai looks he says I've been fasting for three days I can't get up with that horse he says you're gonna have to help me so hmon looked at his watch his time piece he said what a is GNA be king a is gonna be impatient because about time I bring him I bring Mori so hmon bent down on all fours and it became a step Mor I stepped on his back and mounted the horse that's how I mounted the horse Okay so hmon knew he couldn't mess around with the king so now morai is arrayed in all the glory of the king and and he's written hmon leads him through the streets of shushan and he cries s thus shall be done to the man who the king desires to honor thus shall be done to the man the king desires to honor and the streets of Shoshan were filled with people and there were Royal Heralds and trumpets and silver trumpets and highest officer State a whole procession came a whole procession of everybody accompanying Mori through the streets so rather Annihilation it's morai is rising to his great honor and it was a wonderful sight to behold and above all the cheers of shouts of Joy hymon S Voice s clear and Loud thus shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor well seeing the procession from the top of the prime minister's home the prime minister's politial home was haymon's daughter and haymon's daughter was sure as arrogance like her father that that's morai the Jew leading her father could be no one but her father sitting on that horse so what she did she took from her bedroom her soiled bed pan filled with uh everything a belt pan is filled with and she threw it on the head of the person leading the horse which she told was B but it was her father she threw the dirty bed p on her father and then when she found out that she made a mistake and they saw the The Vicious laughing in the street they said look what happened to aen and she saw that the man leading the horse was her father and by mistake she became so distraught what's going to happen to her that she jumped off the roof and she led to her death so now Hon's Wicked daughter she jumps to her death okay so now hmon his clothes are filled with stoil with stench and and exra I can't even describe it hmon staggered home after the procession was over and Ammon says I'm G to take revenge on Mori I'm GNA hang him on these Gallows and I will yet Feast my eyes on his lifeless body hanging in the air okay so zarish his wife said to him heyen since you've begun to fall to morai your fate is sealed because there Allah La any am malachite that begins to fall to a Jew that's it he doesn't get up again that's it falls so while they were still talking the king's chamberlains arrived to take Haymon to Queen Esther's second banquet hmon didn't have even a chance to to wash his face much less change his clothes and they right away took him away with the disgusting smell disgusting slows okay so at the second banquet King aash says Esther my queen surely there's some request you wish to make you have not arranged these two Banquets for the pleasure of hyon's company so tell me what's your petition what would you like to ask for even half the kingdom will be granted for you well now things have been softened up three days of chuva three days of penitence and fast and completely different Dynamics up in the heavens and the tables are completely turned around Esther says she saw it was auspicious time in heaven and Esther was a prophetess in her own right and she said your majesty I only ask that my life be spared together with the lives of my people for my people and I have been treacherously condemned to die to be mercely butchered and destroyed King says who dared to do such a thing to my Queen and he was shaking with anger he was shaking with anger he says his own Queen isn't safe in The Palace okay and she says a very cruel and Wicked Man a ruthless enemy who has already sent Queen vashi were doomed he's the same one that told you to quit kill your first wife and now wants to take my life the villain is no other than the wicked hmon wow so she pointed accusing finger at hmon and the King veros turned to hmon uncontrollable rage so it's you that plotted against the queen of my own home so in a fit of Wrath he went into the garden for a breath of air so midis tells us that in great amazement King a he loved his garden had was called in in ARA bustan this little fruit Garden this little fruit tree beautiful beautiful garden but there were these people cutting down his rare trees he had rare fruit trees from all the 127 countries 127 countries and and the people were cutting down as exotic trees but they weren't people they were Angels disguised as gardeners and they were sent to the Palace to get the king even angrier to so be angry at hmon okay so the king said to the guard he says who ordered you to do this and he said hmon oh now he's really angry so he goes back inside and like a wounded animal the King rushes into the banquet hall and he find the miserable hymon H was so upset that he fell on Esther's bed it used to be that the Persians they wouldn't sit on the table but like we s on it's called muin we sit on the in the pesak table they would eat on beds they would recline they would recline on beds well hmon was so upset he fell down on Esther's bed and King The King says to him he says are you're coming to conquer the queen with me at home he was really run on the spot he says hang this villainous hmon because hmon was led away on the spot and he was hanged on the very Gallows that he prepared for Bai once again NAU the exact opposite everything that our enemies plan to do that they got they fell into their own trap so aish now had every reason to be proud of Queen Esther for she had learned that she was a descendant that she herself was royalty that she was a descendant of the Royal House of Saul the first Hebrew king from The Tribe of Benjamin and when she heard that morai was her cousin and also a descendant of the same Noble family he immediately appointed to be uh morai to be the Prime Minister instead of Hyman so aash Farish gave the palacial prime minister's house to Esther and he gave the Royal signate ring to morai he took it from Amon gave to morai so although morai and Esther were deeply granted for the favors they they were grateful favor story's not over far from over uh they could feel safe under the king's protection but they couldn't lose sight of the danger it's facing the people there's still this decree out and this decree the a is about to fall in the 13th of V because people did get to annihilate the Jews so h cruel decree was was unchanged and it couldn't be withdrawn and if it wouldn't be drawn withdrawn the were lost so again Esther begged the king for the good of the Jews and she fell her feet she cried what's going to be the terrible fate that that goes them she say How Can I Endure the evil that's GNA happen to my people so the King was deeply moved they wanted to a layer grief so it was not easy to resend the decree because it was order of the king so instead of trying to to resend the decree he issued a new decree and this time the decree was issued by morai himself the new decree gave permission to the Jews to arm themselves and to gather on the 13th of arar and defend themselves against their enemies and to attack and slay all that would assault them now we see here that this comes into play the fierceness of the ancient Jews they were Fierce People that even small people for years they held off the the Babylonian uh destruction Temple and you see later that they defend off the the Roman destruction the second temple they could they were Fighters they knew had to defend themselves and and ultimately all the 75,000 anti-semites that plotted to kill them they completely finished them off okay that was the 13th of V 13th of V but then uh so they killed 75,000 enemies throughout the kingdom of Persia but there were left 5,000 enemies in the capital city of Shan okay and amongst who were the 10 sons of hmon so King brought the news to Esther and Esther says I have one more request to make she says there's still many dangerous enemies here in the capital city and shushan and if they're not executed there won't be any peace for my people or no peace of mine so even though we defended ourselves today the 13th he says your majesty let us have tomorrow the 14th so we could defend ourselves here the capital city so the 14th when everybody else outside of the capital city were celebrating already they were fighting and the fighting was still in the capital city and they destroyed another 5,000 enemies so that's Esther's request was immediately granted so while the Jews outside shushan in the 127 provinces were celebrating puim on the 14th of Alor and Shan they were still fighting so now uh they could only celebrate on the 15th of Adar and that's why today we have regular porum all over the world is on the 14th of otor which is this coming Tuesday and Shan puim which is the puim and Shan that's the next day the 15th of aor which not only in the city of Shoshan but all the walled cities there were walled cities at that time such as Jerusalem Tiberius Jericho uh they were wall cities at the time and they celebrate poor on the 15th the Shan porim okay so now Mori he's dressed in his loyal robes and he serves a people with humility and devotion and we they codified M codified puim as the 14th of a pro posterity and shim the 15th of a and once again the word puim it means lots for in commemoration the lots that hmon chose the day of the year when destroy the Jews and for the Jewish people these are days of fasting and they're characterized by we read the Milla we read the book of Esther we read at night and again during the day and their days of feasting and joy uh this is a day when in Hanukah we celebrate it's a celebration of the Soul because the Greeks they don't want to kill bodies they want to kill our souls they want to kill our Judaism but hmon wanted to kill bodies he like Hitler Hitler wanted to kill bodies he said differ the same difference between the Greek and the uh Persians the same difference between the Nazis and the Communists the Nazis want to kill bodies but the Communist communist Russia they wanted to kill Souls that's why they outlawed Judaism and the laws of Torah somebody taught Torah then they would exile to Siberia okay so we read the book of Esther and we send gifts of food to poor people we send gifts of food to each other and we have it's called and we have festive meals and everybody's happy everybody's happy and this is the F Feast of porum that we've now been celebrating for 23 centuries year after year every year generation after generation and to the enemies of Jewish people and the hmons of all the ages the Festival of porim reminds us that Hashem is always at our side and we have to do what Hashem wants and that's what politically expedient now what's this all mean for us we see things that are happening today that we don't understand and we see things that are mly not related the beginning let say with the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel but then the state of Israel itself becomes uh anti-religious and all say we see all this infighting and things and ter when Messiah comes there's going to be a Milla called Milla the Mula the Milla of redemption and maybe it'll be not like 13 years of happenings like the Book of Esther but maybe 70 years of happenings but as we read this Milla everything is to be related we're all going to see how everything forem and everything for the best and that's why the Milla reading the Milla and learning Milla it just strengthens our amuna it strengthens ARA and that's a wonderful thing so bashem tried very best to explain the holiday and to keep it eye level that even how nobody doesn't have any understanding the holiday this the first time you ever heard the story of porum I hope it's clear for you andem we wish everyone a joyous lovely porm and health of body minded Soul happiness of body minded soul and all your hearts wishes for the very best amen [Music] oh [Music]