Megilat Esther - Part 4 - Chapter 4 - Verse 1-5

[Music] today's class is going to be the merit superfluous Lima IV shoe is then been because F been Baraka Alexander Aquila and in today's class were going to cover the book of Esther chapter four verses one through five and we're going to be discussing what happened Ben's across per zone all of the Jews care about the terrible decree which come on and the ox perish device let us begin chapter four plus ik one where the high learned of all that had been done and merliss hides horrors clothes and Dawn sackcloth and ashes he went into the midst of the city and cried aloud and bitter cry merlic I knew all that had happened everything that transpired how the truth of the information at this time was only known to a few elite yet more left I knew more than that he knew more than just what the information was he knew what had transpired he knew what exactly went on between c'mon and nosh-nosh before any of us information should start to even begin to trickle down the next question is why why do you cry a loud and bitter cry why not why not just a loud cry why not a bitter cry why is it has to be loud and better Rashi says that more the high knew through prophecy that through a dream that was given to him by Hashem that the master of dreams he told told him that the celestial beings had concurred about this because they push the Jewish people had burst rated themselves to an image during the days of Nebuchadnezzar and that the Jewish people today that his time had to carve out ferocious beasts the mesh wash explains at the gene that mark I received took place in the second year of ox ferocious rain heather stream when boshy was still clean more like I dreamed that there is a tumult throughout the world and that all the nations rose against one tiny nation to annihilate it and the nation cried out meanwhile there are two crocodiles that were locked in ferocious combats then the fountain the past in between the two crocodiles separating them and that became a torrential river covering all the lands in the tiny nation those exalted and there's peace on the areas this shame shook more the heights of the core and the different things in the dream were the tumult throughout the world was an allusion to the agitation of the angels and heavenly bodies that were threatened with the destruction of the Jewish people and the two great crocodiles that are fighting boys in the illusion to come on mortified and the fountain which passed sand between them was an allusion to a Sarah the Jewish people's repentance and those were the meanings of these dreams but he didn't understand that was the meaning timing the had shook him to the core he knew there was something special about it there was something prophetic about it and he guarded this dream in his heart for many years keeping his eyes open to see what the stream meant and how or what's gonna what's gonna transpire hair then when hammam began to oppress easier israel Wernick I knew this is what the stream was about and he's told Esther this is a dream I told you about the stream like so many years ago it's happening attack think there are other opinions about how Mordecai learned about commands decree you smell who loves says that Mordecai stream happened that night and that mortified didn't learn through regular ways of prophecy because all did she's weren't exile people in the state of distress there's so much bewilderment going in the city and prophecy can only be received in a state of pure joy therefore Mordecai had to be informed through a dream which was the lesser level the prophecy others hold also that Eliyahu the prophet told him had transpired but this knowledge hit Mordecai incredibly hard as you can imagine hearing about a genocide plan against your people but it went a step further from our the hide the draw explains that Mordecai was bitter because he knew this decree against entire people had come because he refused to bow down to Haman so mortified goes out onto the street seeing the people who had inadvertently causes swords we swung over their hat necks and he cries loudly and the fate of his people he can't hold in the tears they aren't silent feelers he cries loudly in volume and bitterly because he knows the role that he played in this huzzah asks why did mortified cry loudly did he think that silent prayer was less effective kana she whispered to herself in a state of duress when she paid for a child she prayed with her heart for their hearts and the Hashem hurt her she didn't have to yell and get everyone's attention she could do it quietly in fact today we still look at Cana as a role model as to how to pray but Mordecai wept loudly for a different reason he couldn't have him be silent tears of a broken heart because all of this was between and his son of an ace of amalek and then descendant of Yaakov and you mean it was a Mordecai's refusal to bow which stirred the wicked ha maan and this was a continuing battle that was going on throughout the ages an ace of also cried he lost his blessing he cried loudly and bitterly as three tear drops fell from his eyes because of those three tear drops he was allowed momentary power and moth worth - needed combat ace off at this time in this battle to take place in the spiritual realm so she immediately cried loudly to combat a sobs they'll cry the measure says that when Mordecai cried out he cried out saying my ancestor yes hawk what have you done to me a soap cried out before you and you heeded his cries and bless him and now we are sold and slaughtered by his descendants Martha he tore his garments off filled with grief and mourning he's been sitting at the Kings gate wearing royal attire for his high position this was not a thing to wear and death was looming over your people's head his place was with people especially at a time like this and he put on sackcloth and left of that men's past six you he came until the front of the Kings gates for his forbidden to enter the Kings gate and a garment of sackcloth why would the court of had come to fiction's gate in sackcloth when he knew he couldn't enter the gate this way he said at the Kings gate he was already aware of this role had he wanted a pass through he would just done regular tire and pass through the gate rather his purpose was to get Esther's attention so she could hear that something was off well he was focused on just fasting and praying and seeking passion and Kodesh Barco he knew not a second was to be wasted he needed to be praying for the existence of his people so he just put himself where he was noticed maybe he just focus on the future Hashem but he would be noticed by the people and the inside the gates we told oval over to Esther a sick three and in every province any place the king's command and esprit extended there's great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping in laments sackcloth and ashes were spread out for the masses McGraw tells us that this is when the information began to leak when it says the King's orders is referring to that confidential documents that were only taken given to the elite the governor sat traps the different officials when it says that even that was what was publicized in the town squares for the public the publicized document evic didn't give it to details on the dock these documents they just basically said that on a 13th of Adar they must all be prepared for military action whose nature will be revealed and now let's everyone the missus say the food will Germans wondering what the brothers that why do we have to be prepared for to fight what's going on here and there's so much talk of speculation that started to stir among the people in there wondering what is this crazy King up to now however the governors of Sat chaps two princes and always four provinces they receive the Kings order spelled out in a clear form with all the speculation running abroad they're not going to wait a moment to break open that sill and read was good but the secret in this document is that everyone's abuzz about they're like we've got to figure out what this is what's going on now and their excitement they're not going to wait for the 13th of Adar to open up this is still document and according to the tar games Shanee but the officials read went like this for me King Oxbridge to all the nations that jolts in their lands may your peace multiply I hereby inform you that a man who is not from our lands has come to join us and help us overcome our enemies we have investigated him and his name is Amin a descendant of the king of agog by the center of the great elec it's in the role of son of La Paz firstborn and ASA the Senate princes which in money and lands has made a minor request of me he told me about the shoes their religion and their evil deeds and he said they went out of Egypt numbered six hundred thousand I will give you six hundred thousands of shekels a silver one for each man I took money from him they delivered this nation to him for slaughter now each shrink like me if I'm eating and shrinking and rejoicing the Hemi horde holds the sword hold the sword and go out overpower them the 13th of the month of Adar having no mercy on the rollers on the or on their young or on their old but slay them take them money as you please thereafter in every city where Jewish slave is found the princess shall be slain the city gates because they have not fulfilled the decree of King Arthur oh Sh he does not want a single Jew to be found at my entire kingdom this sent mixed reactions for the ones who hated the Jews this is too creamy them excited then one of it jumped the gun and not wait until the 13th of Adar they wanted to head out right away and fulfill this decree but something held them back they needed their king was a bit of a wild card but he decreed today he might change his mind tomorrow kind of like what happened with Vashti and maybe he decree this well who was drunk - when he was out of it the king was already taking advice servant boys had thousands of woman in his harem and keeps taking from the provinces even more woman after he's married to abolish the that Basha married to Esther takes women they get a second time and even he raises people to power whom they didn't think deserve to be raised to power there's so many things that they're questioning with King on that the probably even more than the Megillah didn't even mention there when they were Cephas to create their excited but they're kind of nervous too because they want to do it but they are afraid the King's gonna come back with something else a little bit it's because the ox brush now has a history of his instabilities irrationality and general general kookiness so they just say they just let's just wait a little bit and see Oxford changes his mind at all however the Gras explains that there are people who are friendly with the Jews as it says in that example that the targum brings out what bill decreased said that if any Jesus found after the 13th of Adar the princes that hid them of the different provinces they're going to be killed themselves so they're worse than these rulers who were framing the Jews so when these people opened up the letters they immediately shared its contents with the Jews throughout the provinces because they said no but you wish we could hide you like we like you but right here so if we do that we're going to get killed ourselves and they wanted to give the Jews a heads up that this was coming and so this information it quickly trickled down and then it just spread like wildfire the Jews throughout Persia rich and poor put out put on sackcloth and ashes and the Midrash a Korean states that absolutely everyone slept and flats at Bob yet in Shushan capital city there was less mourning the further food capital was too great a mourning for the Jews of the big city they lived in close proximity to the king and they knew about this cookie nuts and fell sure that they're not going to be slaughtered before the third that's the 13th of Adar not so with the Jews who lived further away they'd angel danger was immediately grille upon them they're in so many enemies desire to fulfill this decree early this father already wanted to commence wait until - a 13th of Adar to fulfill this wait a month short of a whole year from when this was decreed you find to fill it like they don't want to have to wait nearly in an entire year to have to fill this decree the Jews outside the capital city they had this threat breathing down their necks if people acted before this decree tiny said he was really gonna say anything he's gonna put a stop to it but for the cheese of Shushan there bit slower and internalizing this threat they probably had perfectly felt less fear and more anger at mortified whom had provoked him on in the first place and one of the last ones to learn about the decree was none other than Esther who was living a highly sheltered life but the information that was released it was only a matter of time until she was informed Pacific for a nesters native came as well as your Chamberlain's and told her about it and the Queen was greatly distressed she sent garments and clothes to Mordecai and to remove a sack cloth from upon him but he would not accept Esther here's what's going on outside the gates from her maidens and Chamberlain's Yosef macaca writes that was well known throughout the palace even though they didn't know estrogen vision they knew of her interest and more the high and that Merlin I would constantly ask about her so we may heard that Mordecai wasn't sitting in his position at the gates but rather he was in front of the gate covered in sackcloth and ash they figured us sir would want to know this information did when the Queen heard she was extremely terrified so deeply distressed hearing that merlic I was in the state this text says it was petite haha which the toughest of all times translates to greatly distressed but the literal meaning of the word is to become full with holes pubs all says that she became virtually unclean and stomach drops some say she was pregnant in the poem hearing this news she miscarried never could to give birth again there's two persons with that first whose baby was it who second it she never gave birth again what about the arias the second a serf had never lost her husband mortified we spoke a lot about this in the previous class about how Esther was never physically intimate with all she wrote giving various reasons as to how she got out of it some of the sages say that one of her mate sermons but disguises her and then another penny brought in by the Zohar that a demon took her form and went to Oxford Oxford latest the demon instead but why all this was happening in Oxford was with Esther Esther went in fact could be going to Memorial High wise and reuniting with him and she was pregnant with Mordecai child but miscarry so what about the one who succeeded the throne - after Oxbridge darius ii i really really do like the Tommies opinion on this matter that cyrus who preceded ostrich and darius the second all three of these people were the same person Tanakh often uses different names to develop various understandings of his person to give us a wider meaning and according to the talmud oxford schwas cyrus with whose righteous because it contains the letters for kosher and cyrus was was the one who ordered the rebuilding of the temple but when he ordered the temple to stop being rebuilt he became the wicked ostrich which is more of a title than a name I mean it goes into makyla doesn't KO anything the Ox rose she was family was just as the Ox fro said that Oxbridge its more so than the name and then he became serious when he was ordered rebuilding of the temple and the Midrash ever says another Midrash different madras says that it was Esther did become pregnant another time after this and that she did conceived err conceived aries ii came ostrich was the father but my personal opinion on the matter is that not every Midrash is to be taken literal they're here to teach us a deeper underlying matter to give us more understanding and to see this picture clearly outfit it in a more abstract poetic way and I like to think of this as though through Esther's influenced action Boxborough she became a different man there was an explosion mark he was a new person that was influenced by SAT like he was when he was born again in that sense he was either complete turnaround yet as for now s-sir miscarry the bet teeth haha she became full of holes she was affected physically emotionally in many different ways she knew more than hi she's married smart okay and she knew that his public mourning was not caused by some personal bereavement he wouldn't have appeared in public for something personal she knew that her husband was a private person to you but he wouldn't try to bring a personal Madol to the public eye she knew he had to be grieving a public calamity and was greatly distressed that merlic I didn't inform her personally should she sent garments to mourn at had so he could dress himself with a proper attire to pass through the Kings gates to tell her personally what was going on but Murdoch I wasn't going to accept them he he then must stop crying for even a moment I see appear to substitute reliance on a human being and rather than penance for the mercy of Hashem he didn't want to take anything take my poem just praying and praying and praying and Mordechai knew what his job was what he needed to do also knew it was time for Esther to step outside of herself because she was gonna have to make a ginormous step in order to speak to ash Burroughs Mordechai could bring main where she was outside the gates he he made it easier for Esther to reach him to hear of him but he had to focus on his prayers and it was time for her a service stand up and to start to take control of the situation estrin knows something is terribly wrong Mordecai refused the garments so that you can enter the gate and tell her what's happening so apparently there wasn't even the message also that he felt comfortable enough to share but the person who she sent the garments with so she send them someone else someone who both she and Marla hi trusted Pacific five and Esther salmon huzzah one of the Kings Chamberlain's whom he had stationed before her and ordained him to go to Mordecai to learn this but this was about to why haha who was the name in person oh yeah haha who is this trusted ha ha ha ha he was a great man Esther's confidence when he became secrets one who no one would dare suspects or question his mission Azad tells us of his man miss Daniels and whites he called ha ha ha ha comes from the word hot woohoo and Daniel was degraded and cut meaning from Daniel being degraded and cut off from his position that he held when during the reigns of Belshazzar and darius inspires another reason who i has called hatha was that it comes from the words for decisions and hot talk because he made decisions on the ferret's their fate affairs of states so sir since Daniel who Mordecai knew and trusted well to find out what this piece of information was what was happening so she could understand the meaning of his actions the girl says when the plastic says it's literally it says but this was and why it was she wanted to know what was was and why was Astra needed to know what was going on obviously something horrendous that infected the entire Jewish people what was going on with Marta's hi it was so bad she couldn't even he could even tell her in person though you couldn't even send it through a messenger had it be Hoffa what was going on why was this going on was it because of the face of a sparrow seven several years before she want to know why it was she may be the know the entire picture maybe then she could think of a way to help more that high and Yosef Lacock explains that mirtha high follow the procedure of physician who diagnosis verse the issue been attempts to fathom the cause before I commencing the treatments and that's the way Esther approached the situation image she didn't know what it was and why it was in there next class we're going to look at Marla Caillou's responses with Esther and their dialogue that happens brought with hawk off passing the dialogue in between them as myrtle Chi tells the Queen that this is the purpose this is the reason why she has been put into this and comfortable and comfortable horrible situation [Music]