Purim: Tefillah, Bitachon, and the Power of Hergesh

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So repeat the kasha. It's a good kasha. So my daughter Miriam asked, why did Esther have to tell Achashverosh that there's a plot to kill him? She didn't want to be with him anyways. Let him be killed. She would have been out of it. So the truth is, there's a few points. Do you know that Mordechai came special to Shushan to petition Achashverosh to let him build a Mikdash? I thought it was dafka. It was actually in Yerushalayim. Mordechai originally was in Yerushalayim. It's a pasuk in Ezra. Mordechai was in Yerushalayim during the time of the Churban. Right before the time, right before this was the nes, he went from Yerushalayim to Shushan to petition, because originally Achashverosh gave permission. Then he backtracked. And how did he backtrack? Because Haman petitioned not to. The Medrash brings it down. It's in the targum on the pesukim, that the fight between Haman and Mordechai was not just from now, it was way back in Beis Hamikdash. Haman was the lawyer for the goyim to petition Achashverosh not to, and Mordechai. So you see, on one hand Achashverosh gave permission. On one hand Achashverosh gave permission to build, and then he was stopped in the middle. It seems like Achashverosh was actually not so bad if you got him at the right day, so to speak. The Gemara says he was a melech tipesh, a melech chacham. He was afach fucha. He was on two sides of the fence. This is another thing, you know. I feel point to that, so he wanted—he was good, he at home, that he wanted people alive. Katie ... also. There was that ... you know. Esther said about Haman, about the chashveiros, kelev yechidasi. He's a dog. Mistalkes Shechinah, the Shechinah went away, forsaking. Still your husband. Esther said, the Shechinah went away from ... Even though she was right, I brought this out Friday night. I said, could you imagine all the ... girls in the city? I said, my husband ... guy. My husband, the ... Where's my husband? The ... He's a ... I don't want to say that. I don't want to say that. My husband. Teivo wants to be this ... Achashverosh, at the end of the day, was good. Originally was good to you. Klal Yisroel is not about murder. It's not about killing people. It's about saving, ... you know. Achashverosh invited them to the seudah. It requires a lot of ... So much. I asked him first, what's bothering them, what do they think? And mamish, I got from my rebbi last week, and it mamish worked like a charm. So I asked him, what does korban mean to you? And pashut, every single one — the older ones, the ones that can answer — the first thing that came out of them was tefillah. I get davening Hashem, tefillah. So Rabba says it clearly. So I was amazed. I thought, you know, because the inyan of ester with tefillah, with taanis Esther, Rabba says it clearly, l'hodia to teach us that migoy gadol asher lo Elokim krovim eilav, this pasuk the Rabba brings. You see in the whole Megillas, with tefillah, the first time from my rebbe involved in Korban. Good. The first time Mordechai is mentioned, because this whole yichus — in the Gemara there, Megillah says, if the yichus should go down to Binyamin, ah, it's all for the darshan shem echad, the yahr, the tefillah, Bat Shemi, shema — it's tefillah. First, Mordechai is tefillah. It also works with Megillah. It gives a — we're talking about taakah. Taakah. It gives taakah. Could you bring me Gemara Megillah? Bring me Gemara Megillah. Bring me Gemara Megillah. It says when Mordechai put on the sackcloth, it's vayizak, something. Right. ... it's taakah.

Without words, is this tefillah like that that's not going to be answered? One tefillah like that is not answered? No, there's no tefillah like that. If it's tzedakah, it's always answered. Tzedakah without words. Tzedakah without words. It's like hysteria, like crying. In his sharp tefillah, a tefillah like that is always answered. I was thinking that. So I think the other yesod of—what's the other yesod of tefillah is hashkacha pratis. You don't mind, ask me big. Ask me talk. A lot of things become clear to me. I think the core is hashkacha pratis against Amalek, that mystery. How do you tie this? It's a chiddush. It's an idea. Tefillah is the ma'aseh, right? The ma'aseh. Because I only—if it's mikra, there's no point in tefillah. But if there's no mikra, so I go—the only place I can, who's a source that can give it me, I only go to ask someone that hears and can give it. I was thinking like the Rebbe said by Amalek, he said, put it up and down. But tefillah also... he picked up his hand with tefillah. ...by emunah, but tefillah also. Yeah, we ask same things over and over again. It's only... It's a very good point. Every day, it's constant. It's one tefillah isn't enough. Constantly. That's a beautiful point. ...you know my little Gemara song? My little Gemara? Yeah. Bring me a tag. How do you spell...? I know where it is. Bring me. I'll get it. Tag of Yud Lashon that was with tefillah, and he picked up his hands with tefillah. What other kashas you have? ...What was after the week? What? Also, they were going to be wiped out with Amalek. No one was going to be... no one was going to be left. What would be left of this? Maybe. I mean, maybe it was wiped out, wasn't meant to be. Which makes sense now. People think it's... it's nothing. No, it's... it's something. It was a real gezeirah. It had to be broken. It was broken, but it wasn't... Once you question, what would be? What would be? It was... the world would be with total... The maaseh that we did in the... He didn't have control over the whole world? It's only that he... the whole world, but then he lost some of it. So what's your question, though? So let's say, what do you find? There's no McGill up there. There's no ... at McGill. It's all on your chair. So get me, try to find McGill. Even by ... Hegel, so at least Moshe Rabbeinu is going to be left. Don't find that. Call. Call you. Ask for Larry. It says, ... chusah, though. The lashon is... I want to argue, but it's very small. Bring me everything. I am ... So let's call you Yehudi. It's not called Bnei Yisrael. It's called call you Yehudi. So I think the Gemara in Megillah also says, why is Mordechai called Yehudi? Because he's over avodah zarah. Whoever's not a Yehudi would be killed. If you're a Yehudi, because now I think why would they get killed? Really because they're about the Nazis. The Nazis wanted anybody that had any connection to Jewish people. So Mordechai would have been a Yehudi. He's called a Yehudi.

Because why? Because they bowed down to the... I mean, the word Yehudu, the opposite. ... Anyway, ... How about ...? ... You know what she needs? ... Seventh. ... Where's ...? Not sure. Seventh. You will say one... For me, and for my... fifty for my wife and five for my daughter. ... For you, this kid... Moshe... After ... the type ... Yeshua. Which ... do you want to say? It says, ... What kapitel do you want to say? ... Yeshua. Yeah, okay. ... Japanese voice. ... The Japanese voice. ... Father is a doctor. ... Yeshua. ... work in our ... that the ... should come out. Nothing external. Everything should be internal medicine. Thank you very, very much. ... It's not real money anyway. You should get real money one day. Thank you very, very much.

What do you walk away with, purim? What's purim? Okay, tell me what is ... Why was it so important? Just a couple of ... until there was ... I spoke about it. I said it? Two years ago? No, no, this time. Okay. ... I was tired, etc. I spoke about that. If that's what I spoke about, then it's a good ... ... The ... The ... Nothing is ... It was all about ... ... It's not ... That's why I said it. So let's see the ... What's the ...? ... Even white, you know, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... You say kashasa is a ha. Once a pat, why kasha zama and not kasha? The teretz is that the zama sometimes is even worse. It's a machshava. Why is it worse? Why is zama worse? Zama, the only pat is moser in zama. You take the same machshava and be mechaper on the person, just switch to a different person. The machshava he wanted to do on Yerim, that zama machshava goes by. ... After the rav by the ... My father tells ... Now I understand. Now it makes sense. It makes sense. ... zero ... of a tip ... zero ... ... machshava, machshava ... It's ... love. ... It's not ... It's all about what's inside. ... Simchas Yom Tov. ... Teirah. ... It's ... ... It's called ... It's called ... ... It's ... ... Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur ... ... It's only the ... You take away the gashmius.

V'ein toiste mensh. What's the stelah? Each shaytz maybe. What's pshat? What's going on? Side hustle. ... It's the same. It's the same. Vayizak, zo'aka gedolah. What's a zo'aka gedolah? What's zo'ak? You know what zo'ak is? A shray. From where comes the shray? There's nothing, there's no words, there's nothing. Vos is this? It's the pain. It's the hergesh. That's all. What's his name? ... I tied him. Asher koach. What's the ...? What's the ...? Krius. What does it mean? What's the taich krius? Krius, what does it mean? It says ... It's the pain. It's the hergesh. ... They're giving it to ... You know, today's דור is this nekudah. They don't let a yeshivah guy's mouth ... whatsoever, to be like it. Fit the mold. Everybody has to ... Yeah, what? Krius is this the pshat. I said, Sheshanas Yaakov tzahalah l'sameicha, yeah? What's Sheshanas Yaakov? What's ... Sheshanas? What do you want? ... Plal Yisroel is a sheisha bein achoichim. And why do they stand out? The ... is plenty. ... I think you feel that, that they stand out. Don't ... be talking. You know, it says, Asher kocho, he makes you have seikel. What's the taich? I need regesh. ... You take that away, what are you going to put in its place? ... It has to be. There's no other way. A human being has to have other daas, other ... I need that. ... What did they have? They had ... feeling ... They had pashut bitachon. If you take away those hergeishim, so what do you have? So hot no seikel, because there's no answers. There are no answers. ... Yaakov ... tzahalah v'sameichah. Tzahalah, sameichah. ... What? ... This is what ... I always thought to myself, what do Esther want in this ...? ... Jealousness, a shvache plan, you know, ... for a strategist ... Mi hu zeh v'eizehu? So she points to ... So she points to Achashverosh. ... So she wanted ... that's what she wanted. ... That's her plan. The plan is, who's the rasha, you're the rasha. That's the plan. Good, the plan. She had no plan, bitachon. ... Moishe feared the ... but the ... gefirt. ... This type of bitachon is not ... That was the mechiyas. ... His plans, ... ganz in mechushim. ... There's no plan. There's no plan. ... And the Rambam brings the pasuk, Ki migo gadol ... That's the pasuk the Rambam brings. Ki migo gadol. We learn from Purim as ... This the ... bitachon. ... No, yid ken trachten azoi. No, yid ken zogn ...

This is the point. Yeah, so whatever it is, yeah. Talk ... something. ... It's a very ... Purim is attached. The hergesh. It's all about the hergesh. How do you feel? I say even more than that, ... What does it put ...? Simcha comes ... Simcha. Hergesh. ... lev, ... damim. Simcha is also. He takes away the source of the simcha, the yakar, the tiferes. ... That's what ... So from tzaddik, ... if stam you're ... like a tzaddik. Yeah, you're ... a tzaddik. I have to know. I take out of my pocket different prescriptions. ... לבש ... ... because she doesn't have a ... What's ...? Her whole house is full of wool. It's warm because she's warm. That's what it means. So what do you need red wool? Shanim is red wool. Scarlet wool ... ... לבש ... ... fire. He has fire. ... fire is the anti- ... So, ... the Hegeshim, the fight. It says, adam is Hegeshim. It's a sign of like fire. It says, ... lav shonim, so that fights. That fights. This is going to be the last fight, the Hegeshim for ... That's what it's going to be. That's the ... ... you're so cold. Remember, you remember here, the ... concentration camp. You remember them? You remember? ... my grandfather. My grandfather ... ... four years. ... You understand what I'm talking about? ... Take it over already. Any ... ... Good, ... That's what it was. That's going to be the last ... ... You probably want to run. ... unless you want to go, if you want to go, you have to leave already. Okay, ... let's go. ... Which one do you want to say? They have no idea. Every person that comes, it has to be his ... his ... They want to come over. Come, come here. Your davening is worth it. ... No, ... They want ... Okay.

Okay. Good. Good. Okay, to make you happy, I’ll… Good. Good. Good support. Good. Hatzlacha, hatzlacha, hatzlacha. Talmid, hatzlacha. Thank you so much. Oh, you want a drink? Okay. Keday, Purim is about the Yid. איין, איין. Zay נישט lebed loud. A leib, a leib. You know they say, Gates had the tzvei leibed, you know that? Gates had, Gates had the tzvei leibed. Reb Leib… Reb Leib Gurwitz. … Purim.