Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Purim is a special time for Prayer and Unity

[Music] okay hi everybody and hope everyone's getting very excited about the wonderful holiday of Purim that's coming up but the Shabbat before poor we know that we have a special tour reading in addition to the normal partial of the week and that is the torah reading that commemorates Amalek time awake was the very first nation that attacked us when we left Mitzrayim and they acted without provocation without cause it was simply a hatred for the jewish people and a hatred for what torah represents and we are to remember their hatred forever and ever and eradicate them actually there's a mitzvah if you knew that somebody with my Malaika even today you would pull out your gun and shoot but the Rambam tells us we cannot identify Amalekites today the reason why we do this the Shabbat before poram is because according to our tradition come on himself was a descendant he's called haman the agagite that means harm on from Magog and our dog is described in the book of SHM oil as the king of a mullet that show was supposed to eradicate shawwal had mercy on him Shmuel wound up killing him but in the brief time between shallow capturing him and chamoy killing him God was able to impregnate a woman and that woman was the ancestor of common and from here the Gemara learns out a very important observation he who has compassion on the cruel will eventually be cruel for those who deserve compassion because it was the misplaced rock my notes the misplaced compassionate that shall all hemella had for a god that resulted in harmon who almost destroyed the Jewish people so one has to be very careful one thinks getting rid of a Moloch is cruel in point of fact ultimately it creates benefit not just for the Jewish people but benefit for the world as well in fact kazaaam understands that the whole story of Purim the whole story of Mordechai and Esther is to kind of fix up the mistake that shoham Ellis made because Shah wool is from the tribe of Benjamin and he did not carry out his Mitzvah to eradicate our Moloch he spared the king shall a Mordecai and Esther are descendants of shalls' and harmony the descendant of a god so essentially Mordecai and Esther are misuk n they rectify the failing of Schaal visa via Moloch social visa be agog was rectified by Mordecai and Esther orchestrating the downfall of himand and the destruction of of our Moloch it's kind of a take on in the cosmic scheme of things what the future generations do rectify can rectify potentially the sins of the of the past so that is why Fazal worm attack end then although technically one should remember I'm awake every single day of the year but particularly before poor him we think about Amalek because that is the map Allah that is the downfall of hominid but here I just want to point out a very interesting thoughts Amalek actually attacked us twice in the Commish the first time was right after we left Smith's ryeom and they were the very first nation that attacked us in the Oasis called refeed them which we talked about I think a while ago the second time they attacked us is not really that explicit in the Torah but it was almost 40 years later when our own Hakka Wayne died our own died before Moshe and when I rode IDE the clouds of glory that protected us which were in the merit of our own those clouds of glory dispersed so we were vulnerable so the total records that a Canaanite King attacked us but Rashi brings a Midrash they were actually Amalekites that attacked us but they disguised themselves as Canaanites because they know that if Moshe were to pray emotion wouldn't know they were mala kites and you would pray to a Shem destroy the Amalekites they would be defeated so they dressed up like Canaanites thinking that Moshe would therefore pray Hashem defeats the Canaanites but since there are since they really are Amalekites they would be safe Moshe suspected that perhaps there was some impersonation here although he didn't know and that's why he prayed to a Shem Hashem delivered this nation whoever they are into our hands he didn't mention container nights he didn't mention Amalekites but according to rabbinic tradition therefore even though the Torah describes them as Canaanites they in fact are a mullah kites that's very important so that's the second time they attacked us in the desert the Vilma gong points out that's the reason that made us vulnerable differs between the two occasions there is a fundamental idea and for those who were sure this morning I forgive me for repeating a little bit of it and that is there is a notion that we are vulnerable to the Amalekites outside of us only when there is something within us there is a spiritual rot akin to a mullick and therefore the concept of eradicating amalek is not only referring to the Amala Kowt there but it also refers to the Amala kin here because the a Mulliken here makes us vulnerable to the emul account there and therefore when the Taira says thou shall eradicate a Moloch it does have an external reference to be sure but it also has an internal referent the example that I gave this morning what those those horror movies where your nightmares manifests themselves and monsters that are outside of you that your dreams turn into the realities any sense that's actually what happens we create a Moloch by the imperfections within our character so what specifically would be in the root of Amalek so that's because yeah happy to put yeah thank you I don't worry I don't think I have the coronavirus just a dust down butchy butchy anyway so the thing is that let's look at the first time i Mullica tagged us then let's look at the second time because you'll see a difference the first time a Moloch attacked us in the Oasis that is called roofied them that's the name of the place but cuz I'll also say that Rafi dem is an acronym it's a contraction of two words rough ooh you're dyin Minnesota their hands held the tons of the Torah very loosely that's an idiomatic expression that refers to complacency lack of interest the certain attitude that even if you're doing the Torah and the mitzvahs you do it without excitements you do it without passion you do it without get smug you just go through the motions a Moloch has co-ack over us when we have the attitude that is called repeatable and the reason that so is because according to many descriptions in fazham the mental image we have of our Moloch is a little different than we normally think when we picture a Moloch we think of the axe murderer the one who like the Nazis people who act with total hatred passionate hatred to destroy us affection pointed out two very very often that Nazism was essentially in a perverse way was essentially a religious doctrine that had all sorts of rituals that made no rational sense I mean for the German war effort to devote German resources to killing helpless Jews and concentration camps was an absolutely absurd irrational decision I mean the Nazis could have used those resources in fighting the Allies but they looked at it I mean hey TV news the word they looked at it like a mitzvah religious fervor miss sirrah snippet you have to give up you know your life in order to do the great myths of god forbid of killing Jews so we tend to look at our Moloch is that type of radical evil and that's one picture of a Moloch radical evil for no reason that's evil but interestingly enough there's another view of a male that emerges from some aggression that a Moloch is not the axe murderer who believes in his cause but on Moloch is the cynic who doesn't believe in anything think about the lawyer that is the hired hand he'll represent anybody who pays the bill think of the academic who talks about moral relativism you have your view i of my view right and some college campuses you'll hear some discussion about well how do you know the Holocaust was wrong from the German perspective you know they had legitimate reasons in other words a Moloch could be seen not as the personification of violent unbridled evil but the cynical idea that nothing matters there is no absolute truth there is no absolute values that everything is a matter of Tom Barea so to speak everything is amount of time brief aimless baqia clad you don't fight over subjective things now that is what the attitude of Rafi dim represents we feed them means I go through the motions but I live a life without passion without feeling without commitment this is a fairly serious problem by the way within the religious world because even a person who is actually very very observant any person who Dobyns three times a day a person who wears to fill in a person who keeps kosher a person who keeps shot someone who is an absolutely an Orthodox Jew as we would define it sometimes it may be very dead inside a lack of feeling I call them the Living Dead these are not just kids at risk these are adults at risk now maybe they're not at risk it depends how you define it they may be not at risk to leave mitts votes although maybe they are I'm aware of more than one case of people who were literally very religious for their whole lives and in their 30s or 40s just left it but most of the time they're not going to leave it simply because it's convenient and comfortable to live in that community this is your community this is where your kids go to school for the inside they're dead there was no passion there is no gimmick nothing is nourishing their soul it's like a tree that still has its leaves and still has its fruits because even after the tree dies it'll take a while till that stuff spoils so the leaves and the fruits still look good but inside is a deadness so this is a serious issue the issue of Rafi them in which you just go through the motions and that is so serious that that is said to be the root of Amalek so the first time a Moloch attacked us is because of the attitude of Rafi dim that was within our heart when we have that complacency lack of passion that's one of the reasons why I read much of Feinstein used to say that the old Yiddish saying severe design a it it's so hard to be a Jew he felt that destroyed a whole generation of Jews growing up in the 20s 30s most of the children of Orthodox immigrants totally left the other side they intermarried they certainly did not keep mitzvot and obviously you know it's over simplistic to say there's a single reason fact if there's any any reason in particular it's the yet was the absence of yeshiva Sunday schools was probably the main reason but you're Marcia Feinstein said that's the attitude that when parents would come home after 12-hour day in the sweatshop and if they were shomer Shabbos and they didn't go to work on Saturday they would have to find a new job on Monday and it was hard to be a Jew okay you can't take that away from it it was very hard to be a Jew but to communicate that attitude to our children how hard it so the children come to a land of freedom they come to the United States where they could be anything they want to be they don't have to be a religious Jew if they don't want to be and they can go to universities and they can become lawyers and doctors and accountants it was literally an intoxication of freedom being drunk with freedom but what drove them away from you to skate because they saw you disguise as oppressive they didn't see it as joyous they didn't see it as uplifting they didn't see it as transformative in a positive way refuse him that's lack of passion drives people the way fact even the phenomenon of kids at risk which is a major major issue both in the United States and Israel and I imagine every other country where there are Jewish kids in which so many I don't want to say so many but about that me in a British Embassy it is a minority but but it's a large number so many teenagers who come from Orthodox homes kind of leave it they leave it sometimes they eventually come back those are the happy endings sometimes they don't come back and once again it's a complicated phenomenon and God forbid I I don't want to blame parents for it sometimes you know the absolutely best best parents and things happen after all dad gave us free will and people make choices and the choices are sometimes not good ones but at least some of the issues are that when people absorb from their parents even subliminally subconsciously that Judaism is oppressive or or even if it's not a present that the parents themselves don't have a passion i Rajesh mock then it's not going to turn them you know the old story when parents say do as I say not as I do the parent is throwing the kid through this do this learn this and the parents himself is there herself is not to connect it to them that's not gonna work the kid sees through that junk it's very scary it's scary how well children know us it's the they can kind of see exactly what is going through our minds in all of these all of these scenarios so again to go back to the main point the first time a male attacked us was because we had the attitude of her freedom either complacency lack of interest lack of passion even resentments and that's what I'm more like within us that takes us away from our Shem and that makes us vulnerable to their male counter versal and I had to want to get in trouble but you know in many of you heard of a very very great rabbi rabbi Victor Miller who died a few years ago he was well into his 90s and he was teaching Torah for 70 years it was a you know of a huge amount of time and he wrote many books very very good book interesting books actually in some ways there are almost two rabbi Miller's there's the rabbi Miller that's warm and fuzzy and kind and encouraging but Ravi Miller also had a certain fire and brimstone style at certain points so it's almost as if you're dealing with two people because he could sometimes be very very tough and when he died he left a manuscript with the instruction that it be published after his death and that is his attempt to explain the Holocaust and it's a very very controversial book and I'm not at all suggesting that I even endorse it but his point was that Nazi Germany was the closest thing to a Moloch that we could possibly imagine a virulent hatred with really no provocation and they actually against the German national interest the Jews were so prominent in in every aspect of German society music philosophy science literature they were the cream of the crop it certainly did not benefit Germany to destroy Jews so Nazi Germany we could say is the closest to a mullick that we could really identify but Melanie Miller pointed out that we for sometimes forget that in the decades towards the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century and after World War one between the wars there was literally a hemorrhaging now we look at European jewelry and we tend to always think of them as the good old ages the good old age where everybody was from everybody was religious everybody learned Torah everybody knew Shas but we don't realize that in those decades there was a hemorrhaging of youth youth were leaving Yiddish tight in droves they were attracted to socialism to secular Zionism to communism to the in so-called enlightenment which emphasized Jewish culture separated from Torah and rabbi Miller's point was that the Holocaust was kind of God's Way of showing us what happens when we leave the Touareg and he connected it to the tokoha I don't mean to endorse that thesis totally because obviously even rubbing Miller did not mean particular victims we necessarily guilty obviously that makes no sense because some of the particulars were the holiest and most righteous so he's not he's obviously even every Miller does not intend to draw one-to-one comparison but he's describing a phenomenon that happens in Jewish history which indeed is documented in the Torah the only reason I'm bringing this up because it is a controversial work and I understand that it might actually hurt a lot of people and they're low vociferously protested so I'm not here to defend or or criticize the book but they just want to point out that if we say that we are vulnerable to a Moloch because of the attitude of roughly dayum because we look at the Torah without passion without excitement without commitments then indeed we can see that in the decades before the Holocaust there was a large scale roughly a damn minute era many I just finished day a series of rubbing wine show about the P is that's no rabbit who is the last Hasidic Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto and he brilliantly before the war people know him because of what he wrote during the Holocaust itself but the truth of the matter is even before the Holocaust he was a master educator he identified exactly what was happening to teenagers and he developed very detailed and precise spiritual educational plans which involved inculcating passion and excitement and spirituality in FINA and he understood that simply learning texts over and over again does not necessarily is not necessarily enough there has to be a specific concentration I'm developing passion and emotionalism in our connection to uh Shem so he understood the problem and this was the problem and this is the issue of roughly you'd say a minute or so that's Achilles heel number one if I could switch the metaphor Achilles heel number one that makes us vulnerable to amalek is rafita roughly as a a minute OA now let's fast-forward 40 years we're approaching the end of the hummus right the end of the Israelite wandering they're about to go to Eric Israel and in that last year first Miriam dies and then motion than our own dies then finally at the very end of the Torah Moshe dies today by the way it was the today was the seventh of Adar today was the birthday and the death day the ort site of Moshe Rabbeinu their design of other now because I'll tell us that there were three miracles in the deserts that came in the merit of these three towering figures the Mun came to us in the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu the clouds of glory came to us in the merit of our own and the traveling well of water that gave us water came in the merit of Miriam so the Ananya covered the clouds of glory come in the merit of our own when our own died they are known they had covered left because he was the reason they were there we now become vulnerable to enemies our Maliki taxes now what's the connection between our own and Ananya covet so we know the following Iran represents a very beautiful and unique meda Pirkei avos tells us we shall always try to be like the tummy them like the disciples of Iran to be a lover of peace oh if Shalem a lover of peace a pursuer of peace Oh Ava sab Rios one who loves all of God's creatures that certainly includes non Jews may even include animals away via sub Rios it doesn't say Oh iris I used him loves all of God's creatures uma carve an litera and through the love that he has for others he brings them to tour DC I'm I'm kind of retranslated this it's not two things it's not that he loves people and he brings them to Torah it's actually a cause and effect through the love that he has for them they see the Torah as good and Noble and they want to become part of it that is how you educate that is how you influence that is how you bring people including your own children to Torah by the love that you show them now why does that correlate to the clouds of glory because the clouds of glory also represents the intimacy and love that God is showing us he is hugging us with his presence so me ducking egged meda our own represents love of his fellow man therefore in the merit of our own we get that love shown to us by God so based on this we could perhaps say the following if Achilles heel number one that makes us vulnerable to amalek is the complacency and lack of passion in our vote that's a Shem Achilles heel number two is the cinema screen umber hatred or the lack of love we have for each other so when it says our own dies it could refer metaphorically not just to our own dying but the meda which he represented got diminished we were vulnerable to Amalek because of the synoptic plenum and polarization that existed within us these are the two see boats these are the two separate reasons of our mullick within us that makes us vulnerable to the AMA like outside of us and they correspond to the two times a mullick attacked us in the desert one is a complacency in the service of God in which even if you go through the motions you do so without passion and without excitement and the second is the hatred and my say hatred by the way I don't mean it doesn't have to be hot hatred it doesn't have to mean I throw stones at somebody hatred can also be indifference lack of interest in the other person the creation of cliques we have our group whoever our group is and then there's the other all of that is hatred so hatred does not necessarily mean what you might call hot hatred but indifference is also a form of hatred in fact either without often often remarked that the opposite of love is not hate the opposite of love is indifference hate and love can actually coexist uh often if you love somebody you feel very very strongly about them so if they do something it hurts you you know you have may have feelings of hate but when you're indifferent they don't affect you one way or the other so sonata Keenum is loved Africa hatred it can refer to a coldness and an indifference there's my people there's everybody else so these are the two Achilles heels in the Torah that makes us vulnerable to our Moloch and when we have to eradicate our Moloch we have to work at these two ideas now here is the interesting point let's flash forward again to the poram story now again just to give you a little little history to make sure you understand the chronology the porn story of course is not in the corniche it's not in the Torah but it is in the Bible it's in the Tanakh when did the story of poor him take place and I'm not going to give you a year-by-year breakdown that's actually a little complicated but basically the Inuvik our Nets are the Babylonian Cain destroyed the base hamikdash and sent the Jewish people into exile Babylon was eventually conquered by the Persian Empire and the story of Purim occurs towards the end of the 70 years of Exile before the Jews returned to the Land of Israel and were able to build the second temple so at the time of the story of Purim we are still in the 70 years of exile that was started by the rule cut Nets are in fact the Persian king who we finally authorized the building of the basin mikdash was none other than a king that was the son of Esther enough of a rush and his name is Darya wysz darius ii so the base to make this is built I'm not sure if Esther was alive I have to check the chronology but after a hush favours died their son Darius became king and he was the one who actually completed the building of the second temple so it's a little bit of an irony of history that the Persian king who built the second temple happened to be Jewish just like they say there's a Jewish Pope here and there etc well of course the first pope was but was definitionally jewish the first pope first Bishop of Rome was the Apostle Peter Peter was certainly a Jew so when people said was there ever a Jewish Pope we at least know there was one for sure but some say over the years there were other Jewish popes who were keeping the mitzvot privately and secretly you know who knows now Darius we're not sure did Darius a lot of questions did Darius know he was Jewish did he think it was Jewish did Darius put on tefillin how did he keep mitzvahs we don't really know but he was philosophy Jewish because Esther was Jewish okay so remember therefore that the book of Esther is an exile miracle it happens and in Gullah s-- it happens without a base on Makena although the base mix is going to be rebuilt soon and it represents an extreme point of vulnerability in which all the Jews are concentrated now they're not concentrated in one place they're they're spread over 127 provinces but they're all under one king it's kind of a dangerous situation through under one ruler who has absolute power and the prime minister of this ruler is given license to a run down and eradicate every single member of this nation almalik once again it certainly was not the key in the Kings interest to do so but this is a Moloch so if you think about it the two Achilles heels the two weaknesses that we had ended in the mid bar the first time I Moloch attacked us and the second time 40 years later both of them made their appearance in the porn story let me deal with the second one first - that's a little more obvious and this connects to what I mentioned last week the second floor which is the iron floor is sin Athena well we very much know that there was sin us freedom even at that point because if you remember I mentioned last week when Harmon is making his case to achieve a rush that the Jewish people should be destroyed so Harmon used the phrase this is a group of people that is mofos our ummah farads bein harm in they are scattered and separated amongst the nations now remember that in McGillis Esther there is no mention of God's name so whenever it says mela the mela prefers on one level to achieve a rush and on the other level to God higher level lower level simple meaning deeper meaning so same thing here Harmon says to the melech lower meaning flesh-and-blood Hammond says to flesh-and-blood melech higher meaning the spiritual co-ack of Amalek argues with God that the Jewish people deserve to be destroyed now if you understand lower meaning higher meaning then that continues with every part of the speech Mufasa umma fahrrad Bane I'm in scattered and separated among the nations lower meaning is because the Jews are not concentrated in one place it's easy to kill them because they don't have a critical mass to be able to fight back that's what human Harmon is saying to you Minaj favors but what is the spiritual meaning the co-ack of Amalek is saying to the Almighty the Jewish people don't deserve to survive because they are divided against each other hatred polarization indifference cliquish which means in the statements mofos our ummah farads Baena mmm you can identify the vulnerability that we face when there is sin not to clean up and that is why when Mordechai informs Esther a Malka of this decree of hummin Esther on Marcus first words are late Kano's as coli you did now she declared a fast but how did she declare the fast go and gather all the Jews together so it's not just a fasting it's if we're weak because my foes are mofo rod BAE know I'm in we get strength by coming together so in the porn story you can identify the same flaw that made us vulnerable after the death of Aaron now we're in the poram story though this is going to be a little less obvious do you identify a genuine generous we connect in passion and commitment to the tower the first flaw roughly is a minute or so here it's a little less clear but if if you remember the beginning of Magilla tester it mentions a hush hush made a huge party in which he invited everybody to partake and according to one of you in fazham the Jewish people deserves to be destroyed because they got pleasure from this party and there's the Jewish people came to the party they ate and they drank and they got pleasure from it and because of that they deserved to be destroyed now let's think about what that teaching means they got pleasure meaning they ate they what they ate non kosher food okay but eating non kosher food is not a capital crime God does not destroy you because you wait non kosher food right so how could we say the Jewish nation deserves to be destroyed because they ate non kosher food so the psalmist says the issue is not that they ate and drank the issue is that they enjoyed it now why does that make it worse because let's go back to why Akash Farish made that party the Megillah doesn't give you any reason whatsoever thing he just says the third year of his reign Akash rivers made a huge party why so the gomorian Magilla gives us a very complicated and interesting backstory and that was suck it's amazing how knowledgeable all of these ancients non-jewish Kings were about Biblical prophecy survived that we Jews should be as knowledgeable about what's in the Tanakh as Nebuchadnezzar and Bill shots are and Akash way rush but they paid very close attention to biblical prophecies Hashem told you me Oh before the destruction of the first temple that there would be an exile for 70 years now there's a whole question where where do you start counting to 70 years aha very well counted the 70 years from the wrong point it turns out but he counted it and it ended after the two years of his reign meaning to say when the third year of his reign began that was the conclusion of the 70 years so according to his calculation the Jewish people should have been redeemed and yet they were not redeemed he saw that as a sign that God has abandoned them and as a result you know what he did at the party he took the utensils of the Beit HaMikdash that had been plundered by Nebuchadnezzar and he used those utensils at his party this was a party celebrating what he thought was God's abandonment of the Jewish people what he thought was God making a statement that God looked is forever it's not gonna end there's not going to be a rebuilding of the temple there's not going to be a return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel that's what this party is about and Jews came and not only did they come but they enjoyed it meaning they were celebrating the same thing that Akash Ferris was celebrating they were celebrating who needs a rich Israel who needs to pay some McNish we're happy here we have a life in Persia or the Diaspora so you see the specimens finish it doesn't say they were destroyed because they ate at the party that wouldn't have been a reason to destroy them they were destroyed because they got pleasure from what's the party represented now if you think about that the idea that I can live in galuwa to all of my life it makes no difference I don't have to be in Erica's realm that is the epitome of lacking a passion for spirituality and growth because you're simply saying I'm fine the way I am I don't need anything more so the point I'm making is this again to summarize because it's a bit of a complicated presentation and that is in the mid bore a male attacked us twice one when we left mitzrayim and the other 40 years later when I run died in those two occasions the weakness within us was the reason that made us vulnerable to our Moloch but it was a different weakness the weakness the first time was a complacency and a lack of passion for connecting to God which is called Rafi them and the second time the vulnerability was we didn't have the attitude of our own to be Oh F Shalom ro Dave Shalom we had sin Athena right that's in the Commish for him we actually had a double vulnerability we had the attitude of sin Athena as we see in the phrase mofos our Ummah foe rods bein on him and we had the complacency and lack of passion to connect to God as is seen by the statement that we got pleasure from a high farish's party which was a celebration of getting God out of our lives it's almost saying Baruch Hashem God is not gonna by since you say Patricia Baruch Hashem God is not gonna bother us anymore with the base on Victor and I think we saw I think Gorbachev once said like there when the before the Soviet Union disintegrated and officially it was atheists I think orbit Jeff but at one point said thank God that you know there's no God it's not whatever it's not something like that but one of those things even the Atheist has to give thanks to the Almighty for various things right so now you understand that quorum was a very dangerous time for us meaning it was not a done deal that we would survive I want us to be aware of this we were vulnerable in show maíam there was a lot of discussion should I let these people live or should I just wipe them out there was not a pusher thing and that is why when the Jews were redeemed by the crescent of Hashem by the love of Hashem we understood that if God saved us from a mullick we have to rectify the flaws within our personality that makes us vulnerable to a moment so now let's see exactly how that happened we know that in addition to reading the Megillah one of the unique mitzvahs of for him and this is in the Megillah itself it is michelle bachman notes ich Laurier ax we send gifts of food and we give money or anything off we could be food as well we give gifts to the poor by the way the Rambam makes the points that she'll of mothers so you have to give at least two articles of food to one person okay so if I gave and there's some say it should be two different Broncos so if you gave one cookie and then Apple to one person you will have fulfilled your obligation of Mishler kimonos that's all you have to do not honestly have your name because of feo name is plural you have to give to at least two poor people so typically most of us don't give directly to poor people but if you give to a stock of funds like Ivana so they're going to distribute the money to more than one person and even though it's not exactly the exact shekel you know the exactly shekel you gave is gonna go to one person but whatever it's gonna be but but you're making them a sheliak so everything they give will will be credited the Rambam writes that if a person wants to go beyond these minimums beyond these minimums it's a good thing but it's better to focus more on gifts to the poor then miss Louis my notes so this idea of you make a 200 - full of comets food and high-calorie food and everything else you know means you're not necessarily doing anybody a great great favor one has to be cognizant to that pace that was only in a month so whatever would be but ultimately what are these two unique myths votes about they're about love they're about friendship they were about making connections because once again if we're vulnerable to Amalek because we are my foes are before Radburn harm him then the only way we give thanks to a chef for saving us from the mullet is when we recommit ourselves to Octus unity innovati israel and that is exemplified in miss Laura Munoz and maternally of young him because that is the antidote that's the vaccine where everyone's concerned about vaccines that is the vaccine and it doesn't cause autism that is the vaccine for our moloch that's correct so it's brought down it's brought down that michl oopps Minot should ideally be given to people with whom you don't necessarily have the best relationship not now yeah you have to be you have to use your common sense here meaning if you don't like somebody but the person doesn't know that then by keeping himself from others you're signaling you don't like him you know obviously you don't do that but but but if the set is you know both of you know that your relationship is strained and you go out of your way to send a gift so that's a gesture of reconciliation that's a gesture of thing I know that we've had our disagreements but let's be friends so you have to approach it in common sense don't and that's even the reason for the minute that maja tequila mich llama not should be given through a Shelia racially I mean to say that if I want to give you a shaman out instead of me giving it to you directly I appoint a third party usually as easily a kid who gets a tip or whatever it would be but it could be an adult oh why do you do it through a Shelia because you want to get more people involved in friendship and community so that is what we do on Purim to counteract the mofos armor for red Boehner mmm now how do we counteract the rough ooh you day him and I tell her the complacency and lack of passion and this is a little less obvious but I think I mentioned last week and I'll mention it again that poem is also a day of reaccept AHA shams Torah according to kazow when we accepted the Torah at her scene I Hashem held the mountain over our heads and said accept the Torah or else so we accepted it with a certain measure of duress compulsion and fear at Sinai important because I'll say we accepted out of love what we had previously accepted out of fear this is the meaning of the phrase kiya mu the key blue they validated what they had accepted so Casals interpretation is that at Sinai it was fear and this is love now there are many many differences between serving God out of fear and serving God out of love but one of the differences is the amount of passion and excitement that you bring to your Aveda when I do something because I know I'm gonna get hurt punished if I don't do it so I'm gonna do it but I'm not gonna do it with joy and enthusiasm when I accept that of love love of God then everything becomes a joy so in a sense therefore the t-con for the Rafi Rafi team is roughly than their hands our week is Kabbalah cetera Piazza so the point is in the mid bar we were attacked twice we had two flaws two vulnerabilities to our Moloch pouran we had both vulnerabilities at the same time and in our celebration of quarry we attempt to rectify those two vulnerabilities in the various aspects of poram both in terms of unity togetherness iWatch Israel and in terms of reaccept Enosh em Stora with love unfortunately sometimes that second aspect gets overlooked important because people are so involved in the other part of it which is again that's the misfits hill but when one should know that some people haven't been eigenvector you chillon quite a few people have such a manner in which although poram is a deaf person usually important is that the day after she what's called Shushan forum and the rest of the world is is our forum here so I think Israelis love all Israelis secular religious her ad that Celia may all Israelis love parties so essentially even though technically you shall I am Emporium is only Tuesday night and Wednesday but essentially everybody has to day support you know they figure out one way or the other either they go to Bnei Brak and come back or even the usual I am they essentially they don't read McElveen here on the on the 14th of my daughter they're not gonna read McGill on month on Tuesday but the lab they'll have a parties and other things other things like that but before the partying begins there are people who get up four o'clock in the morning and they go to show and there are many on em that diving with great great Havana and devotion and then they follow which was learning for at least an hour two hours etc to understand that poor him is also a day of Kabbalah cetera and let me just add another aspect of poor him that people sometimes forget it is a day where the power of prayer is very very great and the muscle they give is this the whole year when a poor person asks me for sadaqa I'm allowed to ask him for credentials meaning how do I know you know maybe you're lying to me meaning do you have a letter from a rabbi do you have some proof that you need the money etc and unless the person asked for food the person asks for food you have to give them food because God forbid if somebody's on the verge of starvation they'll give him food you know theoretically he may drop dead so if he really wants food you know that you give him if you have if you have but if you want some money usually you could say I need some proof usually but I'm poor him the rule is anybody that asks you you have to give something you don't investigate credentials on Portman now that doesn't mean you have to give them a hundred dollars but you have to give something so they say Hashem on poram is the same way the whole year when we pray to God God may examine our credentials are you worthy are you not worthy let's see your merits let's see your mitzvahs but I'm poor him call a lot po che Tian anybody who stretches forth his hands for the mercy of God no stem love God gives to him so one has to remember that poor him is also a day of prayer Hashem listen to our prayers in the days of mortify in Esther of course and Hashem listens to our prayers no it's so amazing that some things don't change Iran is Persia right so poor him almost 2000 years ago actually to them more than to that a little more than 2000 years ago there was this great Persian Empire very powerful Empire that wanted to destroy us and today 57 82nd a year 2020 there's this great powerful nuclear power in Iran Persia it also wants to destroy us so what's the French saying I can't pronounce it and friends but the the more things change the more they remain the same the things that don't change too much and the elect of the world are still here in various forms and ideologies even if they're not physically descended descended from a mullet and therefore the same way that our vulnerability to the outside I'm Alex depends on the weaknesses within us we got to correct it and the same way that poram was a time of prayer where I Shama heard our prayers and gave us a goal that's equally true now as well so with all of the joy of forum we should realize how holy it is how special it is and how it will enable us to achieve a real real Cola and may we be so happy mayor of your Manor to that to that redemption and may we experience the same redemption as the Jewish people experienced done and may it be the precursor for the BS mushiya the mayor of you mean pretty good happy boys [Music]