Purim: Esther, Tefillah, and Hashgachah Pratis — Re-transcription Needed

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So repeat the kashya. It's a good kashya. 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. 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. Mistalka 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? My husband, the ... guy. My husband, the ... Where's my husband? The ... He's a ... I weren't allowed to say that. I weren't allowed to say that. My husband. Teivah wants to be this ... The chashveiros, at the end of the day, was good. Originally was good to eat. Klal Yisroel is not about murder. It's not about killing people. It's about saving. ... you know. Chashveiros invited them to the seudah. It requires a lot of ... So much. I asked him first what's bothering them, what do they think. I got from my rebbi last week, and it worked like a charm. So I asked him, What does tefillah mean to you? And pashut every single one — the older ones, the ones that can answer — the first thing that came out of their mouth was tefillah. I get davening Hashem, tefillah. So Rabba says it clearly. 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 mi gadol asher lo Elokim karov eilav b'chol... this pasuk the Rabba brings. You see in the whole Megillah, the first time from my rebbe involved, good, the first time Mordechai is mentioned — because this whole yichus, in the Gemara there, Megillah says, if yichus shegonav ben Binyamin, it's all for the darshan shem echad, the yahr, the tefillah, ben shemi, shema — it's tefillah. First Mordechai is tefillah. It also works with Mordechai. It gives a — we're talking about... tzaaka. He gives tzaaka. 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. Some of the... Rishonim pick, it's bringing tzaaka, it's tzaaka.

Without words, is this tefillah? Ain 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 taakah, it's always answered. ... with that word. ... 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 other yesod is hashkacha pratis against Amalek, that this— How do you tie this? It's ... too. It's only—tefillah is the maaseh, right? 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 the source I can give it, I only go to ask someone that hears and can give it. I was thinking like the ... by Amalek, ... Yeah, tefillin. But tefillin also have... but he picked up his hand with tefillin. Maybe... remember saying by emunah, by tefillah also. Yeah, we ask same things over and over again. It's only... you have to keep adding. 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 song? Yeah. Bring me a tag. How do you spell...? I know where it is. Bring me. I'll get it. Tag and use a lashon that I was by tefillah, and he picked up his hands with tefillin. What other kashas you have? ...What was after the week? What? Also, there 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... the... You didn't have control over the whole world. It's not that he... he destroyed the world, 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 ... I have McGill. It's all on your chair. So get me, try to find McGill. Even by Peter Hegel, someone, 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 it's very small. Bring me everything. I am... Shlomo Holland. 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. Because now I think, why would they get killed? Really because they're about... 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 it was a gazer, because they bowed down to the... I mean, the word Yehudu, the opposite. ... Anyway, ... Nikri Yehudi. They didn't care. As long as you're ... they didn't care about you. How about ...? ... You know what she needs? ... Where's ...? No, it's true. Not sure. ... You will say one ... For me, and for my wife, and for my daughter. ... For you, just kids in back. ... Moshe, say ... After ... פסיכלי פסוקך. Which ... do you want to say? It says, פסוקי פסוקך. What kapitel do you want to say? ... Yeshua. Yeah, okay. ... Japanese voice. ... Japanese voice. ... The Japanese voice. ... The ... doctor. ... to heal. ... Yeshua. The ... 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 it's behalf. Why was it so important? Just a couple of ... until there was kfirah. 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. It was all about ... ... it's not ... That's what I said. So let's see the Maharal. What's the Maharal? ... even white, you know, ... Don't, don't ... So we want to ... ... put another person. ... That's his vort. I didn't know he said that. I know the ... says it. ... says it that way. I'll tell you Yeshiva ... says it. ... They say ... ... They say ... Right. Once you create a ... you can't ... someone else. Oh no, no. What are you saying? What ...? ... The ... that someone has ... you can take the same ... You say kashas is a hak. Once a patish, why kashas zama and not kashas? 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 patish is moser in zama. It takes the same machshava and being mehapech on the person, just switches to a different person. The machshava he wanted to do on Yerim, that zelb machshava goes by him. Maybe shteig daf. ... by the ... My father tells ... How he finds ... Yeah. Now I understand. Now it makes sense. It makes sense. ... zero ... of a tip ... zero ... ... machshava, machshava ... ... nice ... It's ... It's all about what's inside. ... Simchas Yom Tov. You get tefillin. So, tefillin is ... Teirah, the ... It's ... It's ... Halachah ... ... It's ... It's only the ... You take away the gashmius.

What's the ...? It's ... It's the same. ... What is ...? You know what ... is? A shriek. ... There's nothing, there's no words, there's nothing. What is this? It's the pain. It's the hergesh. What's his name? ... I tied him. ... What's the ...? What's the ...? What does it mean? What's the taich ...? What does it mean? It says ... What's ...? ... They don't let a yeshiva guy ... whatsoever. It's to be like a ... Everybody has to ... Yeah, what? ... is this, the pshat. I said, Sheshanas Yaakov tzahalah ... Yeah? What's Sheshanas Yaakov? What's ...? What do you want? ... בין אחיך, ... בין ... Plius was a ... בין אחיך. And what did they stand out? The ... plenty of ... laws, plenty of laws. I think you feel that, that they stand out. Don't ... You know, it says, Asher kocho, he makes you have ... 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, ... ... What did they have? They had ... feeling ... They had ... ... If you take away those ... so what? So hot no ... Because there's no answers. There are no answers. ... Yaakov ... What? ... This is what ... I always thought to myself, what did Esther want in the seudah? ... Jealousness, ... you know, ... For a strategist, ... מיו זה ואיזה הוא? So she points to ... So she points to Achashverosh. ... So she wanted ... That's what she wanted. ... What'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. ... Moshe feared. ... This type of bitachon is not ... That was the mechayes. ... There's no plan. There's no plan. ... And the Rambam brings the pasuk, ... To learn, we learn from Purim. ... No yid can tracht. No yid can ... Hashem. ...

This is the point. Yeah, so whatever it is, yeah. Talk ... ... It’s a very ... Purim is attached. The hergeshim. It’s all about the hergeshim. How do you feel? I say even more than that, ... What does it put mechiyus ...? Simcha comes to ... Hergeshim. ... You’re ... loud, you’re ... davening. Simcha is also. He takes away the ... the simcha, the yekar, the tiferes. ... That’s what ... So from tzaddik, ... if you’re like a tzaddik. Yeah, you’re ... a tzaddik. I have to know. I take out of my pocket different prescriptions. ... Leveso mishaleg, ... lavan shanim. ... Because she doesn’t have a shal. ... Her whole house 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 ... ... Leveso mishaleg, ... hergesh, fire. He has fire. ... fire is the anti ... So, ... the hegeshim, the fire. It says, adam is hegeshim; it's a sign of like eish. So, kichalveis olav rishonim, so that fights. That fights. This is going to be the last fight, the hegeshim for the Yid. That's what it's going to be. That's the ... Dav, you're so cold. Remember, you ... walk down ... remember? 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 milchamah. ... You probably want to run. ... unless you want to go, you have to leave already. No, no. 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. Simcha. Hatzlacha, hatzlacha, hatzlacha. Thank you so much. Oh, you want a drink? Okay. Purim is about the Yid. איין, איין. Zay נישט leibed loud. A leib, a leibed loud. You know they say, Geitzer had the tzvei leibed, you know that? Geitzer had the tzvei leibed. Reb Leib… Purim. It’s whole day Purim, wishes of joy. … We’ll get the music on. You go to the next. Daddy! Daddy! … No, no, no, you take it, you take it.