Why is Purim the Only Holiday We Will Celebrate Forever? - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

one thing we can all agree on is that poor is the time to celebrate festive meals the family together children in those adorable costumes and sometimes we have the adults and not so adorable costumes but everyone's beauty comes out in a unique way on porn and we get to see all of the unique behavior of the Jewish people you know half drunk all the way drunk a quarter drunk I won't tell you well you know how I behave on Form you have to come and join me for form to find out but getting to the point getting more serious so we celebrate on Purim but what are we celebrating why is poram one of the unique holidays among all the Jewish holidays that it is the one that is mentioned it will never be abolished poram will be celebrated forever unlike the Hakeem unlike Pesach and Sheva walk and Sukkot these holidays we will not celebrate forever the way we celebrate them now but poram will be an everlasting celebration for the Jewish people so what makes poram so unique that it has this special status among all the Jewish holidays what's unique about poram if you look at Jewish history although we faced many many enemies this is the one time that an enemy stood up to try to wipe out all of the Jews all around the world complete and total annihilation that one Jew would remain man woman and child were going to be sent to their death so in the face of utter destruction we reached the point of no return you know we hit rock bottom with no way to turn so where did we turn to Hashem and it seemed like a shame wasn't even there to answer and receive our Christ everything looked like it was not going our way it would look like we were really doomed we had Haman rising to power we had a wicked king that also wanted to see us destroyed we had a almost a death sentence hanging over our heads for a full year and even the story itself is a bit odd because when finally - Mara she finds out that Esther is Jewish and she pleads to save us so King Ahasuerus doesn't even save us so after essentially her man is killed and you would think it's time to live happily ever after in since the Jews were facing a death sentence that was waiting for them almost an entire year till becoming Aadhaar remember the date that Esther approached a hydration to save us and Haman was killed was paisa now other is the month before paisa so it was an entire year until the month of other came about again that we had to walk around with this idea of we may be all destroyed come 11 months from now and so that brought within the Jewish people that brought out the deepest level of repentance and the deepest level of clinging to Hashem because he was our only hope however for the entire year we did not see how Hashem would save us because throughout the entire poem story God did not show his mighty hand as it is in terms of Egypt so what was the real miracle that we have to publicize what is the miracle of poram that we are celebrating the truth I think there are two parts to the story and two parts to the miracle one of the miracles of poram essentially ends when Haman is killed because really poor miracle is a hidden hidden miracle that no one could see through about a nine year period we see random events where the Jews are in a lot of trouble and they go through and things go from bad to worse now finally when it seems like really we are going to be wiped out with Mordechai being killed our leader everything just flips around in a moment in a moment the gallows that the common built for Mordechai are used to hang him and at that moment it's like a bright light shining down from above and suddenly God appears we saw gods hand of savior cause mercy in saving water high and killing our enemy among and at that moment we look back and to retrace the events and we see that each event leading backward was connected and we actually find that Hashem was there from the very first word via he and on every page we see Hashem there that's the idea of Hashem coming out from behind the scenes and his Providence and his protection becomes very clear to us at that moment but interestingly that that moment is not the end of our story because had Esther approached you know Rajas Rosa then Anna and I sure had agreed to protect us and save us then the saw will be over and that would be essentially the ending of like a movie but what do we see we see now a flesh mayor says I can't help you once I make a decree I can't change it and that is a cop-out of course but you know Esther takes it and we live another 11 months with the idea that in 11 months our enemies are gonna come and attack us now here's where I think the heart and essence of the poem story lies it's not the miracle that we speak about most often but I think it is the essential miracle of poem because it is where that an advantage over all of the holidays show its face since every single Jew was really going to be killed by Haman and every single Jew was in jeopardy at risk so I don't think it would have been enough if most of the Jews were saved here Hashem really delivered 100% saving every single Jew this is the one time that we were almost attacked or they were in danger where you don't see not even one casualty that one person heard it Egypt managers were hurt and killed in Bevelle managers were hurt and killed in every exile that we were saved from eventually there were Jews there were heard to kill even the Hanukkah miracle and story which is similar to porn a battle of a few thousand against about a hundred thousand trans soldiers and that was an obvious amiracle even though it was Barbara with the nature was an obvious miracle but still there were casualties on both sides we died they died although we were victorious and was clearly a miracle we still have to suffer the agony of seeing our Jewish brethren dying and that's why the simcha the joy of Chanukah is not the same as the joy of poor but on poram we're taught that during the military battle hand-to-hand combat of a small amount of Jews against their enemies around the world around the entire world known world of the time and we defeated them in hand-to-hand combat war how did we do that so when we understand that God was present with us during that battle God was with every single Jew protecting him from the enemy protecting from the enemy's sword and at the same time helping him wield his sword to victory killing our enemies and saving us and this makes the unique needs of poram so special that's why we celebrate forever and ever it's the greatest celebration because it's the only time that God saved every single one of us from harm to show his great love and the importance of every single Jew this is similar to the final redemption maybe so head to it that we know that ultimately even though we go through the ups and downs and there are righteous in our wicked ultimately every single Jew since we're all part of one whole unit one whole spiritual body one neshama we will all be there in the final redemption in the final world to come and so that is the connection between Purim and the final redemption that's why poram is even greater than all of the other holidays so we see the beauty of poor who represents the undying everlasting people following the perfect faith after Hashem and we with our faith and Hashem behind us we will never ever be erased [Music] you [Music]