Mishenichnas Adar Marbin B’Simcha: The Hidden Miracle of Hashem’s Constant Presence

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Purim. Mishenichnas Adar marbin b'simcha. Everybody knows this memra. Most of the batei midrashim have it hanging on the wall. How many people know what it means? Vos is the kavana in Mishenichnas Adar marbin b'simcha? Be happy. Everyone tells you to be happy. It's not so easy. Not easy. Be happy. Yeah, be happy. Be happy. Do I have to do something to be mekayem Mishenichnas Adar marbin b'simcha? Are there any hanhagos that I have to do? In Shulchan Aruch, vet es nisht gebracht. Not even brought in Shulchan Aruch. Even though it's one Gemara with Mishenichnas Av memaatin b'simcha. It's the same Gemara, k'sheim. It's one Gemara, Maseches Taanis, k'sheim. The same way when Av comes in, memaatin b'simcha, so too, so too, Mishenichnas Adar is marbin b'simcha. It's one Gemara. Techesan, the Shulchan Aruch brings only one part of a piece of a Gemara, which is one—it's one Gemara. It's the zelbe halacha, k'sheim. Shulchan Aruch brings Mishenichnas Av. Mi'ma'atim b'simcha. Shenichnas Adar, it doesn't bring it. Acharonim pasken, a matmia, it's a chapele, it's halacha. And if it's not lahalacha and it's just an aggadeta, so don't bring me, Mishenichnas Av, mema'atin b'simcha. So the Acharonim want to say, Av has hanhagos. There's something you have to do to mema'it b'simcha. Three weeks, more strict are the nine days. Mishenichnas Av, so there's a halacha of Mishenichnas Av. Mishenichnas Adar, there's no halacha. Daf zayin tzufrieden, tzufrieden, you have to be happy. Okay, good. ... So what's taka Mishenichnas? Or nothing, just to be happy. The Gra saw one of the Acharonim bring down a Tzantn zach. If a person goes to a simcha, needs to have extra simcha, and if it's an ader to show that it's not only because of the simcha, it's also because of ader. We want you to take ... What's still a maaseh? So, rabosai, lamed redn. Years passed. We spoke, the inyan of Purim is ish Yehudi. Vos dos meint zayn a Yid? Ish Yehudi. It's all about Yehudim, Yehudim, Yehudim, and I'm only kneged that, and there's no simcha. Ben being a Yid. This we spoke in years past. Baruch Hashem, today everything is, you can't, nothing gets lost thanks to the photography, to the Torah anytime, mechatek, ashrecha yischus Torah anytime. So you can look it up in the Alter shiurim, Vas Mitgeret, Yaarin Tzerik. This year, I'd like to bring out another nekudah. It's based on a Chasam Sofer that I saw, which caught my eye. It's a santnech Chasam Sofer. Abeisai, vos iz Purim, vos iz Megillas Esther, vos iz der gantze... Good, we have a lot of Yom Tovim. Each Yom Tov is a zikaron, a commemoration of a different nes that happened to Klal Yisrael, Yom Tov. Purim, farshteyt zach, the story of Purim, but it's interesting, the Rambam brings down that Purim is more unique than all other Yom Tovim. Rambam lahalacha brings it. The Rambam in Hilchos Megillah, perek beis, says, the Rambam, the last halacha in Hilchos Purim: Kol sifrei hanviim v'haksuvim asidin libatel limos haMashiach, chutz miMegillas Esther. V'harei hi kayemes kechamishah chumshei Torah u'kehilchos sheba'al peh she'einan batelim...

Everything else will be batel. Megillah? Nah, it doesn't is batel. The Raivid, right away, comes. He says, What are you talking about? What's the ...? Chas v'shalom, Tanach will become batel? The Raivid attacks. What do you mean? Al ta'yak mitzvos hakayim l'olam. A lot of mitzvos are in Tanach. Torah miSinai will become batel? He says it doesn't mean it'll become batel. The kavanah of the Chazal that the Rambam is bringing is that we won't read it. Mistama have afteira. We won't have an hafteira to read from the Tanach. But Megillah, ... l'olam. This is how the Rambam learned. The Raivid pshat in them Chazal. אפילו יבטלו שאר ספרים מלקרות בהם, מגילה לא תיבטל מלקרותה בציבור. There'll always be a krias haMegillah. But the Rambam is mamshich: ואף על פי שכל זכרון הצרות יבטל, צרות ... מפגסין. ימי הפורים לא יבטלו שנאמר, וימי הפורים האלה לא יעברו מתוך היהודים וזכרם לא יסוף מזרעם. Something about yemei haPurim, what Purim stands for, that's also not going to be batel. The tzaros ... מפגסין. The tzaros ... What's ...? Nu, pshatava, Rabbeinu, pshatav in the Rambam, nu. ואף על פי שכל זכרון הצרות יבטל. So I guess you can't talk about a nes and a yeshuah if you don't talk about the tzarah, huh? That's what the Rambam means. Can you imagine you tell a half a story, a yeshuah, but it had to be based on a tzarah, but you can't mention the tzaros. So what are you going to do? סתם, ... חבר'ה. No, רבייסי, chabli lernen, rabbeisai. First we have to learn. You want—everyone likes a nice drasha mit a nice gematria, mit a nice maaseh, you'll get it, but first let's learn a little bit. למה רבייסי lernen, the rabbeisai? ווואס? ווואס מיינט דער רמבם? Imagine you tell a guy a story, you only tell him the result. You know, he looks at you, מה...? The Rambam is saying Purim. So what's Purim, rabbeisai? ... heard that already. You know, in English there's an expression. It's some ... unbelievable. Three weeks later you ask him, Nu, how was it? ... Why? Because you heard it already. It's not. The glance from it, ... the Moshiach will come, ... כימי צאתך מארץ מצרים. The nissim are going to be so big that we'll say, ... it pales in comparison. I'll say it in English: it pales in comparison. Nu, there's what's Purim? So why Purim, yeah? Purim, ... וזכרם לא יסוף מזרעם. Purim, ... what's the Purim? Yeder yahr Purim, ... ונאפילו משיח ... Purim, Purim, Purim, ... So what's Purim? Et gebrachten achroinim. It's yadua, all of the Yom Tovim, they are to commemorate, to celebrate nisim geluyim, me'eredike nisim. Purim is nister. It's teva. It's the Ribono Shel Olam. He runs the world from the world that we see; behind it, there's another world. It's the Ribono Shel Olam's hand was handled avelt. He spoke to him, and he spoke to him, and ... and whatever. So we think that's life. No, it's not life. It's the Eibishter. Esther, Vashti, Bigsan v'Seresh, Mordechai. The story of the Megillah took twelve years, rabosai. Twelve years. Reb Elchanan speaks that b'ruach kodesham they tied together each event, that this—you know, when you read a paper, you read a newspaper of events. Imagine you had to tie together what you read today with something you read twelve years ago. You don't even remember what you read twelve years ago. Mekam kam gedenk vos mir gelernt nechtn in the news. You know, it's interesting. I want to tell you a good tip for people who write a newspaper. You can say over the same thing every day, כמעט. Just skip one day.

Repeat over the news the third day, and wow, really? That's what happened? So anyone who keeps cheshbon says, Yeah, but the same thing happened three days ago. Oh, really? Current events. We could talk a lot about that, Rabbi Yisai. You know, when you read a story in the newspaper and you experience the story, news comes and goes, and... To be able to put together a theme of twelve years of events and tie them together, ... the Chachamim tied together Mordechai, ... Megillas Esther. Not one word, not one word of the Rabbeinu Shlolem. It's all hidden. HaMelech, HaMelech Achashverosh is Achashverosh. HaMelech is the Rabbeinu Shlolem. Everything, current events, is the Rabbeinu Shlolem, and to tie them all together is a nes sheb'nes, which is even a bigger nes than Kriyas Yam Suf. ... Good? So, Rabosai, ... good? Vas is Purim? Vas is Megillas Esther? It's Megillas Esther. Megillas Esther. To be megaleh the hester, what's really behind the story behind this, and what's the story behind every story? The Rabbeinu Shlolem. There's an expression, mashal v'nimshal. The velt is a mashal. Rav Hutner, ... gelt. ... Rav Hutner used to say. The charifus. The velt used... He meant to say, he meant to say, that's how people, you know. But the real vort is, there's a mashal and an nimshal. The mashal's deibishter and the nimshal's, that's how it's deibishter. Everything that happens, we think, it's all the Eibishter, it's all the Yad Hashem, it's all the Yad Hashem. So this is Megillas Esther, and dos is l'olam yad. ... Graysa, graysa nisim. But this nes has the Rabbeinu Shleilam. ... everyone's machshavos, shein shteit in the Gemara, that even the machshavos of everyone, what every person thought, it all went into the part of the connecting of the stories, das is the Rabbeinu Shleilam. Rabbois machshavos balev ish, v'atzas Hashem hi sakum. ... And this, this will only be, will even be when Moshiach comes. So this is the Rambam in this Megillas Esther. The Gemara says, ... kavuni l'doiros, kavuni l'doiros. Notice it's called Megillas Esther. ... Who wrote the Megillah? ... You know, today in America, you can have one person writes the book. The other person steals the credits. Copyright laws. ... You think ... ... What's the pshat? Nu, zog. The teretz is, ... kavuni l'doros. Zogt the heilige Gemara, daf zayin: אמר שמואל בר יהודה, שאלו למסטל חכמים, כווני לדורות. ... Rashi: לינטיף, לקריא, ליהוי לי לשם. She wants dinner in her honor. That's what she wants, Esther? ... Amen shereibt a buch heint, it's all about him. It's on the cover, big picture of him and his name. Dos vil Esther? ליהוי לי לשם. Hashem, ... What does it mean, ...? ... Yeah, ליהוי לי לשם. What does Chazal answer? Chazal tell her, אנשי כנסת הגדולה told her.

What are you trying to make, that the goyim should hate us? The goyim should have... זאָג רש"י, שיאמרו אומות, שאנו שמחים להזקים את פלשתן. Shalchu la, she writes back, וכתובה אני על דברי הימים למלכי מדי ופרס, which is interesting, it's in the Megillah. Even in the Megillah we write, כתובה על דברי מלכי... Why is it in the Megillah? Why is it so important that it should be in the Megillah? Teretz is because it was a shakla v'tarya. Why they even wrote it? וכתובה. It's negiah to me that it's in their history books? What, I'm going to History 305 in college? What does it matter? The teretz is based on this Gemara, right? That the Gemara says, אשה herself was moneying כבר נכתובה, ממילא it's in the Megillah. It's ta'atifa dehera, basically. Lama plan the Gemara? Minafolei yivchal tismach. Mitanishtabins, Yidden are not happy that goyim... Even when we win wars, we don't bluster in the face of our enemies. The rabbe is... the hang them up and we dance them. And the truth is, the truth is, Avshalom Aleiczander is something a little different, you know. Chazal zogen, Mordechai got on the horse, he gave him a brikke, gave him a kick, and Haman... Minafolei yivchal tismach. Okay, it does come in red and not this one, okay? But simply, simply, we're not happy that the goyim fell. A pelosa shel goyim, it's not... it's nisht unsera zach. Malte chachamim, what are you doing? Kinat me'oreres aleinu bein umos. What was the shakla v'tarya? U'mah shedekavonah l'daires, what did she mean, lihyos li l'shem? And what was the teretz, kvar niksuvah? The teretz is garbage. You look at the Megillah, you don't see a nes. What's the nes? No, you don't see a gross nes. You see Yidden haben gekempft. They won. So what are you so happy? The teretz is, you won the war. Ah, that's kinat me'oreres aleinu bein umos. Kvar niksuvah, sopt Esther. Even though it was a nesh b'teva, of the goyim, the umos, hamgezens yad Hashem. Avadeh, every Pesach, when we have Kriyas Yam Suf, what, we're now celebrate Kriyas Yam Suf? What's kinat me'oreres aleinu bein umos? Of course. Why? Because they know we're not celebrating mapalasan. We're celebrating the Ribbono Shel Olam, the Yid, the Yom Tov. It's Ribbono Shel Olam. It's all about the Ribbono Shel Olam. Yeah. Sopt Esther, kvar niksuvah. I'm already written. Forget. The nes was such a nes, aza tevadike nes, was mit gezen der Ribbono Shel Olam, afilu goyim haben es gezen. Until today, they have a tremendous monument, Mordechai, in Iran, and the goyim pray there. Iranian, Gentile Iranians go there to pray. Mordechai. It's... Ate das hat zich gemein kvar niksuvah. You know how poetic the nes, that even in the history, even what they saw as events, current events, they saw the yad Hashem. Un dos ligt in the Megillah, that's what it says. The Megillah is trying to say even the goyim, l'hamalchei Madai u'Paras, are ksuvim; it's in the history books. That's something miraculous, something poetic. Ki nofal pachad haYehudim aleihem. It's a p'suk, ... shloylam. Un a dos vil este kavunah l'daas. What's kavunah? ... l'daas. Esther min haTorah minayin? V'anochi haster astir. The Ribono Shel Olam is behester, feeling galus. The Ribono Shel Olam's there. That's what Esther stands for. The Megillah is, Megillas Esther, kavunah, lihyos li l'Shem, my name Esther. Asi da a nes, un zi da a hashgachah pratis, un s'ha da gilui Shechinah behester. That's, yeah, lihyos li l'Shem. Vos vil zi l'Shem? Because her name, Esther. Chazal zogen her name represents the kesher, the Ribono Shel Olam hat mit klal...

Yisrael, afilu in the tzaitim fun Hester. Si panai. Abe si behester panim. Abe si panai. Vanisi aleichem. Hashem is there. Hashem's watching. It's behester. Hashem is there. Hester min haTorah, minayin? Haneich astir astir panai. Hashem didn't go away. Hashem's there. Forget. The gilui panim is there. The gilui panim, but it's b'hester. Nito, if the Ribono Shel Olam's not there, that's a problem. But the Ribono Shel Olam's there. It's meitzis min hacharakim. But the dos is geven Purim, and that's the pshat, Rabosai, Hachi gebetn kavuni lyomtov. Vos vil zi? Zi vil zayn a Yom Tov, a nes behester. Zech Yom Tov. Likriah. You know, Rabosai, we don't say Hallel on Purim. Far vos? Kriasah zu hi Hallelah. So galu. Vos iz shoin? Uvasa hamitzagin Hallel. So gal leicht. You know what the תרץ Rabbeinu is? It's gargeshmak. When something is clear, all you have to say is thank you. It's something so obvious. But what happens when the thing is not clear? Un du farshtehst, zogt mir iber de maaseh, for oifen fun shevach, that shows az du farshtehst, and that you appreciate what happened. זאָג איך, ... הערט? But something, tell me, you come to my shiur, I don't have to say thank you. I understand the tircha that you went through. I understand it's not easy. ... When something is clear, that hakaras hatov is for something which is obvious. But when something is not obvious, so you say over the story, you hear, oh wow, ooh, ooh, do you hear this part? You hear this? You hear? Chiyusa. Zui lula because it's a nes nistar. ... It's emes l'amito. There's a Mir yeshivah in the yeshiva's hanhalah, if someone doesn't read the Megillah, for whatever reason, ... I'll have to work it out with the shtikel teirah. I'm not ... Okay, good. I'm not ... Believe me, I have it all worked out. Trust me, I have it all worked out. ... Okay. ... When someone sees a nes nigleh, does that bring a ahavah? Or when someone sees on a daily basis, ... in every matzav, when yeda minut, when yeda problem, which brings more ahavah? When someone does you one big favor, or someone is there for you on the small details every day, ... he's there to help you. No, let's talk L'maaseh, huh? The small vadeh, huh? But once you chap it, what? למה פלן הגמרא? קיימו וקיבלו היהודים. Yeah, that's maaseh. קיימו וקיבלו היהודים. Klal Yisrael mekabel Torah again. They re-mekabel Torah. Zog Rashi, me'ahavas ha-nes. First make me'ahavas ha-nes. It was a tremendous ahavah in Purim, you see? The nes brought about tremendous ahavah. Let me show you something interesting, which as I'm talking just went into my machshavah. I found an interesting Chazal, and just as I'm talking here, it all came together. Tachsan, just popped into my head. Esther says, Keili, Keili, lama azavtani. Purim is Keili, Keili, lama azavtani, alefesundach, alezingendach, Keili, Keili. There's a Medrash. The Medrash says, Keili b'Yam Suf. Is that Keili... Keili b'Sinai. Keili, Keili... the Medrash. It's a Medrash. Sinai—I'm sorry, Yam Suf, Sinai, and... Yom Rishon, ... Keili. Yom Sheini ... Keili, and the third...

Tumahlei, three tag, keili, keili, lo mazavtani. It's a medrash. I was thinking to myself, maybe the Gag isshmak, Sinai. I'm sorry, let's start with Yam Suf. Yam Suf, megedik nes, keilim. And Har Sinai, at bnei Yisrael gezen keilim. U'mitamol mitgezen keilim. Anander mahalach in keilim. And that is, me'ahavas hanes of yeda minut, hashgacha pratis. There was big revelations on Kriyas Yam Suf. There were big revelations on Har Sinai. The veis vil ayn de hashpaos gebliben. We all know, right? The minute Yam Suf was over, gleich Sinai, ... mit beis hasefer. ... purim, dos blaibt, gezen an andere keilim. Mitgezen dem keili, ... every moment the Ribono Shel Olam is with me. That's me'ahavas hanes. Hat men mekabel Torah geven, anander kabolas haTorah. I found the sefer, the ... ... sefer. ... It's in Peirush ... Vayikra. It's in a few places also. The drushes, he's busy with this. Vayhi is gematria keil, so I'm not so into the gematrios. My base is cooking, I'm not gematrios. You have to got a calculator for all of them. He's all over with the gematrios. But the yesod is, Az di megillas vegn a gevisen malach. The sefer is all over the place. Which malach? Akasriel. Der zelbe malach, he helped, vos Yishmael Kohen Gadol at gezen, Yishmael Kohen Gadol saw when he went into the Kodesh HaKodashim. V'raisi Akasriel, KaShem Tzevakos yoshev. Der malach is di gantze megillah. You ready for some sefer yet? A baiser kum arein in the machshavah, in the velt fun the Chasam Sofer. You ready? Heiliger Chasam Sofer fangt on mit a gevaldige medrash. V'ani lo nikreisi ela haMelech. Zi zogt, I wasn't called lo nikreisi ela haMelech. Remember, melech stam melech is Rabbeinu Shleim. It's not a coincidence she used the lashon vayikra by El HaMelech, the Rabbeinu Shleim. Moshe Rabbeinu, vayikra, Hashem el Moshe. Zogt der medrash, amar lo, loimar Mordechai, tell Mordechai, shelo hirgisha shum zechus miMoshe Rabbeinu shene'emar bo vayikra. Yeah, great. She said, I can't go el haMelech because I don't feel the vayikra, Hashem el Moshe. Zogt der Chasam Sofer, vos, vos? Nu, rabbeisai, shlaf nisht, kuk, dert. Vos Moshe, vikum Moshe, vos tut zich op do, zogt der Chasam Sofer, minireh. Lo kein avdi Moshe, peh el peh adaber bo, u'mar'eh v'lo bechidos, utemunas Hashem yabit. Yabit. Moshe Rabbeinu sees very clear. What does he see so clear? Zogt der chiddush, Moshe Rabbeinu, mitoch haspakahim tzuchtzeches, in Sefarim vet gebracht, the hainu malach echad yeshu shmoe Kasriel, v'osei hamalach, here, Rav Yishmael כהן גדול, in Gemara in Brachos. And he says that's pshat in the pasuk, shemeilam, eten lo asher lo yikares, lo yikares. Nu, rabosai, nu, lo yikares, akasriel. Good. V'hu l'maalah mikol hamalachim. He's the biggest of all the malachim. V'hu hanikra malach hagoel, and he's called the malach that redeems Klal Yisrael, hamalach hagoel. His gematria is tof reish samech beis, that's the gematria of his name, which is seiser, b'seiser. HaMegillas Esther, very interesting. V'alav ne'emar yoshev b'seiser Elyon. Kel shakai yislonan, Boino shel olam protects us through this malach haKasriel. On Yom Kippur, Yishmael כהן גדול sees this malach, v'yoshev al kisei...

כי... protecting. The Rabbeinu Shalom is protecting. The kiruv, the kesher, the Eibishter here. והוא השר אשר משה דחי. משה טענה to the Rabbeinu Shalom, no, I'm not maskim that a kasril should be a mediator, that you should protect us. You got to take him away. It's got to be direct. אם אין פניך הולכים, אל תעלנו מזה. I don't want a kisui through a malach. I want פניך. I want direct. אומרים ממוצע. ולא נתרצה משה להיות שום ממוצע בין הקב״ה לישראל. You listening here? After the eigel, the Rabbeinu Shalom said, okay, I'll send you a kasrikel, which means a kisui. I'll be there, but through this malach. Said Moshe Rabbeinu, no, אין פניך. Don't send me a direct. So you know what the Rabbeinu Shalom said? Good. So you'll be the one that mediates. ומי למשה מקומו להיות הממוצע. And that's ויקרא. ויקרא. ויקרא אל משה. He calls Moshe, and that's why Moshe says, מי אנכי ויקרא. That's why it's aleph ze'ira. It's a small aleph. ואחר בא ענן אל אוהל, ומשה למדרגת ממוצע להיות משה ממונה תחתיו. He took over instead of a kasrikel. V'chein ne'emar, Vayikra Moshe... k'shenischabeh b'madreges Vayikra Moshe, az hayah mal'aso k'minyan hamemutza. And he goes through all the minyanim. It's a long, it's a long ... So, das is der pshat in the Megillah, V'ani lo nikreisi lavo el hamelech. I don't feel the ... I don't feel it. I don't feel the ... here. So how can I come to the melech? Ani lo nik... that's to Moshe. Shenemar bo Vayikra; by Moshe shteit Vayikra. I don't feel the ... I feel up, there's some period. I don't feel it. I don't feel it. And that's Megillas Esther. Panim, hester panim. It's a ... Rebbe, he said, ... You ready? Let me read you another ... Yeah, good ... No, it's not. It's such a ... It's such beautiful ... I'll tell you more pashut. The oilam likes pashut, so I'll tell you pashut. You ready? This is ... ... I'll tell you pashut. When did Esther say, Keili, Keili, lamah azavtani? When did she say it? So the truth is, the Sefiras Chazal, I worked on it. Reb Yankele, you have to work on this a little bit. I found this a stirahdike stirah. What's the stirah? In one Medrash Tehillim is shteit doch that the first day, the three fasts, right, day one she said, Keili. Yom sheini amrah, Keili. Yom shelishi tzavcha b'kol gadol, v'amrah, Keili, Keili. Lo mazavtani. But yet Chazal also say that she said it when she came to the beis hatzlamim. Gemara tes-vav, even shegiya, right, l'beis hatzlamim, nistalkah mimenu Shechinah. V'amrah, Keili, Keili, lamah azavtani, rak rachok mishu'asi divrei shagasy. Shematadan she'kemeizid, b'kitzur, maybe because she called him a kelev, she tried to find an aveirah. Fregn the Acharonim a meiredike kasha. Shemen HaMe'or, Acharonim, it's a fregende kasha. Maybe the reason why the Shechinah left was because it was beis hatzlamim. Why is she so convinced that she did something wrong? Hameiredike. It couldn't be that the Ribbono Shel Olam was not with her because of the beis hatzlamim, because haShechinah ito b'soch tumasam. It can't be. It couldn't be that it was because the Ribbono Shel Olam breaks through even beis hatzlamim, even in mekomos of tumah, even in galus. There's not shayach. So she was trying to search for something.

Frag in da chaineh makasha. So even if, let's say, she did something wrong, yeah, but she was going now to be matzil Klal Yisrael. So why did she think that she's going on a shlichus? I want to tell you a pshat, habeiser. Der hartz tracht. If it's glatt, if it's not, ich veis nisht, aber azoi tracht. Yeah? I want to read you the lashon of the Gemara. רבי בשם רבי חמא אמר, הוא שדוד אומר וסודר לו תפילה, שנאמר, באותה שעה ראתה: אל תרחק ממני כי צרה קרובה. Al tirchak mimeni ki tzarah kerovah. Don't be far, because the tzarah is... Why is there so much about richuk, rachok? Vos hat richuk tzu tun? Vos der Ribono Shel Olam ken nisht helfen fun richuk? But the Ribono Shel Olam, He has to be... You like my hara? Taire talmid chacham, you like my hara? That's how I think. I'm so simple compared to him. I like simple pshat. Something's bothering me here, the richuk, the richuk, the richuk. Was she mistapek that there won't be yeshuah? It doesn't say that. That's not what it says over here. Rachok, rachok, richuk. Al tirchak mimeni. Why azavtani? I don't think for one minute she believed that there's going to be a tzarah, that they're not going to survive, because Tzum aleiv, al teichlu, al tishhtu. Al pi eves, what's the greatest chelek of the yeshuah? That the Ribono Shel Olam's panecha holchim. Richuk. It can't be. You're right, we might survive, yeshuah, but mitarichuk. Ki ati modi. De'ma'ati mimodi. That has to... that even if there'll be a yeshuah, but it's a chelek of the tzarah. Al tirchak mimeni. Keili, Keili, lamah azavtani. She wasn't מסתפק that there's going to be a yeshuah. Keili, Keili, lamah azavtani. ... lamed ... to the Gemara yesterday. Adam שנכנס, ... בשמחה, זוקף ספר. Peirush Rashi — it's another Chumash. This Chumash is in ... daf ... amud beis. Zogt the Chumash: Mishenichnas Adar marbin b'simchah. Peirush Rashi: yemei nisim hayu liYisrael, Purim u'Pesach. People think it has to do with — Mishenichnas Adar is about Purim, right? That's not what Rashi says. ... You knew this? Why Mishenichnas Adar marbin b'simchah? Because of Purim and Pesach. It's the smichus, one next to the other. ... It's two others. ... You want to know something? Any guy that comes to collect money in your house, I give you a brachah, you should be an oisher, that people should come to your house to collect. They should think you have money, and they should come to your house to collect. Either way, fregt the Chasam Sofer, ... why? I'll tell you Purim. It's nothing. It has to do with nisan and Adar. ... What's the shaychus? Because there's two yesodos here. Nisan is nisan geluyim, and Adar is teva. ... But which one is more? ... More is Adar, is Purim. And that's why it's called Chodesh Adar. ... it's taka Adar. Huh? He says something else. ... The Gemara in Beitzah, daf tes vav. This is after Shas. Chasam Sofer, you want to read one piece of something, you have to know the whole Shas. Gemara Beitzah, daf tes vav amud beis: Harotze sheyiskaymu nechasav, yita bahem adar. That's the name of, like, a bush, a tree, adar. Shebo tichem Yehoshua es haaretz. The techumim, he put it around in Yehoshua. Yehoshua decided the adar.

Trees, what's going on? Trees, other. By the way, a lot of the Megillos about trees. Think about it. Kisar hamalah, the trees. We'll talk about that at a different time. By the way, it's not Kabbalah; it's what to think about, all right? Eitz hadaas, eitz hatikun. Good, shein? Yeah? Zogt the Sam Sofer, she'eino poneh yamin u'smol, v'eino mishtaresh ela b'mekomo, v'eino poireitz gedero. It's not a strange tree. You plant it, straight. Nesha b'teva; this, the Ribono Shel Olam doesn't change the world. But it's גייט. This, zogt the... Mishenichnas Adar, zogt the Sam Sofer, that's the greatest simcha. When you know the Ribono Shel Olam is mashgiach in your life daily, that's the greatest simcha, more than any other simcha that anyone could do for you. Remember I asked you a question: if someone does something spectacular for you, you're happy? You love the person, yeah. But what happens if he's there every day? Nothing spectacular; he's always there. He's always taking care. I read you the Sam Sofer, yeah. Al kein, marbeh b'simcha, shenikah bo yoser hashgachas haborei hapratis aleinu, v'hainu vimei haPurim lo ya'avru mitoch haYehudim, v'zichron lo yasuf mizaram, because it's a seudah. It's a Purim-agantz yahr. You know they say the expression, Purim-agantz yahr. It's a maileh. I get Sam Sofer; vil azol zayn Purim-agantz yahr, tack. Pesach, Pesach... literally, every day, a seudah. I see the eilam is ready to go. Kumt achamais, come. Rebbe, let me tell you why I'm telling you all this. Simche is to know, keli, keli, lo azavtani. Ribono Shel Olam, you're there with me. I want to tell you over how I came to this. This is, as a rav, you hear a lot. Sometimes it gets hard. It gets very hard, especially if you care and you take it personal. It gets rough. I'm allowed to say the name. Yisroel Meir Bamberger, he's a talmid of mine, a talmid chacham from Westgate, chashuv. He called me for almost straight two years, two years, every day or the other day. His sister, nebach, was very sick. He davened a lot, I can't tell you how much. Every time he called me, and all the shailos and all the hashkafah and all the... I was involved with the dayan, and I'm telling you, constantly, kaseider, kaseider. Nebach, she was niftar a few days ago. He told me that the night before, I called him one morning. I said, I didn't hear from you since the morning. It doesn't sound... I feel something. He tells me he was there the night before, and he sang with his sister, V'taher libeinu, avdecha, and she sang with him, V'taher libeinu, avdecha b'emes. That's the type of Yid we're talking about, okay? We're talking about heilige Yid. Even when she fell into a coma, which was last week already, Thursday, Wednesday, he called me up and asked me, so what's the tefillah? V'itdaven daven yetz, because the doctors gave up hope and she's goyses, so what's the— which is a big shailah halacha, how do you daven? Daven for nes nigleh, you know. It's a different sugya for a different time. So he asked me just some shailah. He wanted a shailah. It's a bitteire frekt. She survived a few days like this, shelo k'derech hateva, so maybe he could daven that she could survive till Purim. And Purim is a zman of yeshuos, Mashiach, so meileh it's not a tefillah shav. This is the hasagah of a ben Torah. The whole Shabbos, I knew it was coming, that she was going to be niftar, and I thought to myself, what am I going to tell him to a chazakah? What am I going to tell him? What could you say already, you know, what do you— And I thought, and I myself was thinking, I don't have, you know, sometimes you're at a loss of words. And then I came to a hachlatah, Baruch Hashem, I can't do. HaMakom yenachem.

You gotta, Rabosai, only you can be menachem shivrei lev. You have... called me up that she was niftar, but with simcha he called me up. I was shocked. I thought I would have to sit there on the phone and find what to tell him. Fakert, he was mechazek me. He said, A nes happened. So he called to tell me that she was niftar. A nes happened, that right before she was niftar, hashgacha pratis, she opened her eyes and my sister was able to say with her Shema Yisrael. I'm listening to this, Rabosai, was... I needed the shvuest hamatzav. The one thing that's mechazek him, hashgacha pratis, Rabbeinu Shlolem's there. The nusach, I'll never forget the nusach, is a nes, but with a simcha. A nes, tells me, a nes with a simcha, hashgacha pratis, Rabbeinu Shlolem. This is what the Chasam Sofer is saying in Purim. Avad we had tremendous yeshuah, but the one thing that she was mevakeish, Keili, Keili, lama azavtani. Tirchak, harechik. Hashgacha pratis, panecha holchim. This is what Purim... and that's Mishenichnas Adar, Adar, Chasam Sofer is learning is nes teva, the Rabbeinu Shlolem is there, marbin b'simcha. That's how you have simcha. I'm reading Chasam Sofer on this. This is a kasrikel that the Rabbeinu Shlolem... chibah. Vayikra el Moshe, loshon chibah. Ahavas hanes, there was a tremendous ahavah. What was the Purim? The ahavah. Rabbeinu Shlolem said, You're there. You're there. Al tirchak, even in the golus. I don't need big miracles. I don't need the Rabbeinu Shlolem. Dafka greisa nisim, Chanukah, greisa nisim, yeah, avadah. Purim, dafka greisa nisim. I need al tirchak, bemeni. I need to know You're there in every matzav and everything that happens, Rabbeinu Shlolem, You're not far. When it does, the greatest simcha that a Yid can have, hashgacha pratis, hashgacha pratis, to feel and to see that Rabbeinu Shlolem's there. This is, Vezichron lo yasuf mizaram. You've just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.