Purim Seudah: The Custom of Burning Haman, Amalek, and Kishuf

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So let me, let you walk. Fine, you're a rabbi. You're talking about this. You see the Aruch, the breakdown in the, not the Shulchan Aruch, that they had a minhag. No, they hung, they hung. The other thing, equivalent to Shulchan Aruch, the same one of those, the red one. They had a minhag that they had a fake haman, like what we do over here, that everybody knows. So a couple days before Purim, they would hang it on their wires, whatever, what we do. Comes Purim time, they would put it over a fire, a bonfire, like as if it was melech, and everybody would stand around it and cheer, and it would pass around and it goes through melech or something, like how it's just like by melech where they pass it through, then they say like, You're being burnt, that the steak, I don't know, it's so weird. He brings such a... from the Aruch, I think it was the Aruch. So he says that it was a minhag, or he just— So that was a minhag, and he brings a raya from the Gemara, because it said, he said, This is this word, pashtedasa or something, which I never heard of. And he said, Well, I can tell you where the mekor is, because Amalek was literally bekish. They would be bechash. Wapshat, they would be bechash. Teva, everything but the— They had teva. They explained away all the supernatural as kishuf. So I'm thinking that's the pshat. They went— Into the behaviors. One shot that's in the bucha, right? Chelek in the bucha was with the kishkes. You know how they did it just to save themselves. There's a lot more. It's deeper than that. Because they want to do show, we're going against Hashem. How? By doing kishkes. That's what I want to say, pshat. See, the milchama has to be more symbolic. It's dar, dar. You have to see another thing. I look at it a little different. The Eibishter created the world, so these milchamos were actually created from the Eibishter. It's not pshat that Amalek comes. The Eibishter doesn't want, Hashem Amalek doesn't come. No, no, no. Extra wife's not coming. She's ready. Rough day, huh? Because I came home from davening later than she wanted to, she told my kids that their father goes to Russia. Russia. I explained to her what she said. I'm not giving her the second time. It's not good for you. What did I do? I came home at ten o'clock at night. She saw some ladies come home now. She looked like... I might see her, right? I can't get the... I live with what I have. I'm not trying to make the best of it. You hear what she says? It's a joke. It's nothing. That time it is good. Yeah, I guess. She loves you. That's worse. She can't take it. Every time she goes to period, every person she sees, she looks at, You have a baby, you're pregnant, you have a baby. What is this? What is the prum stuff? Make music, make music. How can be the... Oh, it's our, our thing.