The Hidden Key to a Monumental Yom Kippur for the World by Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom everyone. I want to take this opportunity to wish everybody a gumar katima tova a wonderful wonderful sweet happy yum kipper. And we're going to talk about today um this in I would call it monumental yum kipper facing Claw Israel and how some of our central understandings to how Yum Kipper operates are in this year exaggerated to the nth degree that the entire world is involved. Well, they're always involved, but our yum kipper, our individual yum kipper is uh really larger than life. Um, always, but in this year beyond belief. So, let's go into it a little bit. Yum kipper is a day that on the surface is hard to comprehend. We know it's a day of the word yum kipper especially according to the Rambam perk olive of Hilos chuva it means that we're going to have a stay of judgment and what that means is that doesn't mean that we're perfect but the operating mushel is that of a courtroom these days of muva essentially hashem is sitting in as our liturgy describes tribes in his kay shalus in his throne of judgment and thearim the books of life and otherwise are open in front of him. This is the imagery that the garana plants deeply in our minds and codifies it. And um so much so that hikas chuva moram tells us that the individual choices of one Jew can actually tip the balance of a world judgment because not only are we being judged which is was a preliminary den which took place on rashishana or for those who went to um on the eve of rashish shana but that's another thing anybody want to hear about um rashash shana if you have questions yes okay if you really want to I'll tell you whatever you want to know. But this moment of aas where Hashem takes into consideration the behavior of the entire world versus his hopes for the world is the day of Roshashana. But the throne of mercy is activated through the prayers and chuva of Claw Israel and others. And therefore we have this extension until Yum Kipper. That's the first appeal. Much like in a in a regular court, you'll have a decision that's handed down and then there's an appeal. You're allowed to file for an appeal. So, yum kipper is the date of the appeal appearance in court. And we have a specific job on yum kipper that differs from Russashana in that our goal is to make sure as best we possibly can that whatever the judgment was or is meant to be that there's a stay of judgment. What does that mean? That means kipur means like to cover it over over like the kapara of the aron was the cover of the auron. So it doesn't mean that the den is necessarily erased or nullified even but that it's that it's disabled. It's not be able to put into effect. What you need to do with it as the Rama describes in the second par of chuva is then you have to complete your chuva. But in these 10 days, we show our interest and make a beginning a beginning and of a real sincere repentance which has three sections that are specifically important for and that is the vidy. You have to speak to hashem admit your wrongs. That's make a confession of guilt. Let's put it that way to Hashem. I feel like I didn't do this well enough or that well enough and this and that and I and I I would I would like to abandon that behavior. I don't want to go back there and and then you have to pray that Hashem accepts your confession, your vidi and your chuva. Okay, threestep process. Number one, you must admit to and if appropriate to others. That's why tell us and it's codified in that you should you know yum kiper you can clear it between you and hashem very easily but between you and other people that's another story you have to actually make an overture to the people you feel you need to apologize to if those apologies will not harm them or or stir up any problems or bad feelings or issues. You have to know when you apologize and when you don't. You might be offering information that's best left unsaid and you should consult your local Orthodox rabbi for any matter of reaching out for penance. But you can scream it out loud. I didn't bench yesterday. I didn't put my fillin on properly. I didn't, you know, make Shabas in time to get at the beginning of benching. I ran into those 18 minutes or I was not knowledgeable of Shabas or I said some lashhara or I might have hurt somebody or damaged somebody or stolen something and there's nobody on this planet that doesn't have some offense. It's impossible. We are not mal but the opportunity of keeper in particular is to clear the state through this threestep process. This is what I did wrong. I feel badly Hashem because I went against your ri your wishes for me and my behavior and then pray please in his brilliant brilliant sh I might read you an excerpt today. Uh he says he points out the difference between and he says I recited it at night. The best time to recite is pre-dawn. Ideally a person should din at sunrise and recit recite the house pre- sunrise because asking is a private matter and it's it's a dark moment. It's an admission of guilt and it's a secret prayer. Please get me out of the prison that my deeds and thoughts have created for me. Release me from prison. And to do that, you need a little sodaka. Got to pay. You got to pay your way out of jail, right? And and redeem yourself in front of your captors, which is this in this case your thoughts and your avos and you'll get out. So the petition for is a legal procedure but it's also a prayer. Okay. I will tell you do you know that some people for example speaking of restrictions those who travel to Oman right some of those people spent 38 hours on a bus 38 hours on a bus coming home. That's how restricted they were. Why? because the border that they got to was closed for six hours or whatever it was. Now, one thing you need to know in Eastern Europe, whenever you have someone who tells you you can't go or do something, what's the remedy? There's always a remedy. It's called $20 or10 US. You put it inside your passport. You hand it over to the century who's refusing you to continue in your journey and you will get through and I was blessed with I must have had the shortest travel time of anybody that I know who went and that was a great and a good fortune from Hashem. And that was only because I ordered the tickets straight from the Muldoven airline. But if you ordered through travel agents, charters, and even lal, you weren't going to make it through the city, the country of Muldova anyway. But sometimes, you know, grease the palms, and that's not only a bribe, gifts, um, kind words when you're when you're taking care of somebody in a hospital. We we wish a refle to to the lessen whose very incredible loyal and and and superlative wife is by his side in the hospital caring for him and we wish him a foolish of mamish and she's the one who has organized and kept this moving for many many years and I wish her good health good health and success with her husband with herself many many many years to come among all the holy Israel So when you're in a hospital setting, there's a lot of denim. There's a lot of people, there's nurses, there's doctors, there's all sorts of procedures and rules and medications. And you need the human part of that. And the way you can do that, as I've observed people who are very skillful in this area, you buy a little gift for the nurse, buy her a little something, buy her a donut, buy her a cup of coffee. Because then when you ask them to help you with a problem, then you will have uh assistance because we need that little bit of penance that comes through paying. Some say this is the whole shot in the sazel. It's a payoff to the satan that in in essence we're not paying tribute to the satan but we're kind of greasing his palm as it were saying all right you know you'll get a little something out of this too. Everybody needs to get paid. As long as everybody's paid everybody's happy they'll let you be. to let you escape the worst parts of the judgment as a rosaru. Sometimes you'll get a pass by paying a little penalty, a little fine, a slap on the wrist so that you don't ha face a corporal issue. That's what yam kipper is all about. It's about evading the harsh judgment roard. But let me now launch into a fundamental fundamental insight about Yam Kipper and how to be successful in Yam Kipper and some of what I learned in um about Russashan Yam Kipper that I think is so basic that it is the concept that you should take with you. Take with you words you heard over Shabasua all wonderful take them with you. But I have a certain insight that I hope to offer you that I think opens the keys to Yam Kipper. And so we'll begin with that introduction to probe into the mysteries of Yam Kipper and how this day works and what can be accomplished. What's the upside potential? And of course all this is in a context if we are seeing ourselves in a in the best shamala being judged in the bezdon in the upper court. So too in the best in Shamat in the courts of the world, legal courts as well as the court of public opinion. I there has never been a moment in my lifetime that I can recall where there was such virulent accusations and hatred on a universal level against Israel and the Jewish people as for this Yum Kipper. You could remember for those who remember who were around the Umipper war of 1973 there our enemies attacked us but our enemies were Egypt, Syria primarily and the Russians of course always a willing to make a buck by selling weapons to our enemies and hopefully at weapons that don't work. But the rest of the world was was either neutral or supportive or sympathetic. No one looked at the Jewish people as genocidal, as racist. But immediately after the Miper war, there started this trend of calling Jewish people racists and celebrating the terrorism of the PLO Mima Zifra in the United Nations and elsewhere. And then it grew to become as I mentioned the accusation of uh from racism went to aparthide which is of course a pariah thing. uh and and has to be sanctioned and punished. And then of course the highest accusation of all, genocide, which is the number one crime against humanity that the world acknowledges that a person could possibly our nation could possibly do. And of course, their model is the is the Nazis. And then therefore, they're accusing us of being the same as our tormentors. This is a very serious thing. And they have cut Israel out of many, many areas already. and they seek to cut them out for more. The United Nations has published a list, a blacklist of Israeli industries. The United Nations, what's not their business to create and promote boycots against Israel besides condemnation after condemnation ain't so pim seems to be their primary go job is to be the matri, the saton against Israel and the Jewish people. That is their job. The UN is the voice of the of the of the accusers against Israel among other places too. certainly uh behag and and so forth and not not to mention the voice of our of our Arab cousins and the uh people who hate Jews in general. Plenty of voices, but they're getting louder. They're getting more mainstream and they're becoming legitimized and one may even be the mayor of New York City within a month or two time. Is that not something that's standing in the balance of the judgment of the world and what will happen this year? what the what the entire who will rule the entire New York City and the Jewish people that live there majority of uh of which uh are observant or or connected to Jew Judaism in some some very strong way. Okay. So in the court of world opinion the Sultan has made his case against the Jewish people continues to call for essentially our punishment, delegitimization, blacklisting, boycotting, being kicked out of even friendly events such as Euro Vision, such as uh sporting events, such as concerts, which again, I don't think any of us should cry about being excluded from those and certainly not any place for a nice Jewish boy or girl because there's lot of hatred there already and there's a lot of whatever else going on uh concepts and ideas that they're promoting and behaviors which are not consistent with Hashem's will for us but be as it may it's troubling and I think if anybody wanted to be honest with themselves I think they would have to say that they're troubled if you're a thinking person you're troubled how could it that we have become you know we were we were such a wonderful Medina you know and it's it's like oh bugdub even the voices of support bugdu they have turned their back on us whether it's England whether it's France whether it's others that at one point very much supported Israel I don't know how to say very much supported Israel ever but at least they weren't voices of condemnation and hatred, at least not openly, not so much. But now without without any hesitation, without any pause for caution, and there is this flotilla on its way, I I I'm just thinking to myself, it's probably going to arrive on Yum Kipper. This is such a sad thing. It's probably going to sail into Kipper and force the Israeli Navy to deal with their with their condemnations and hatred on our special holy day. Much as we were attacked in 73 by our vicious enemies on the most sacred of days, much as we were attacked on October 7th on the most sacred day of Silkas Torah. So, it's a time of concern. The world is in court. But let me share with you an insight that should be helpful and also give a perspective in the 10 days of chuva. All right, we say many additional pieces in the shimona esray that we don't recite the entire year. All of them seem to point to a unique formula. So take for example, what's the first one? Right. Remember remember remember us right talks about a safer an actual book of life as the describes that we are set in that book and written in that book. So the two terms, the two actions, the two verbs are remember us and write us. As if to say, Hashem needs either memory help or a book to write down remembrances. What does this mean? This doesn't seem appropriate clap mala. It doesn't seem to be something that's relevant to Hashem. What does Hashem need to remember? Of course, he knows everything. There is no issue of memory in the bezel. Everything is open. And similarly, why is there a book of memories of writing down stories of people's lives and factual events? This is all open. Hashem can look in our hearts and minds, take one look at you as many sadikim could do in previous generations. They take one look at you and they could read your soul. So what does this mean? And again and again again. Please write all your nation. Write it down. Hashem, we want you to write it down. It's famous that was also in Ukraine um used to defend. He was the defender of the Jewish people. And as we'll learn today, we're all that right now. We are all the lawyers of the Jewish people and ourselves right now. We are all the lawyers. He was a great lawyer for the Jewish people. And he used to say to Hashem, "Hashem, you are not allowed to write on on because you keep Torah mitzvah tell us Ku keeps Torah mitzvah, his own Torah and his own mitzvah. So you know how to write on Yiff." So you can't write down any bad gazer for the Jewish people. Can't. and he would challenge him andu torment and mock the heavenly court and say there's no way that you could ever come up with anything bad that is one of the actual lessons that I learned in um this rashana which is that as these dark clouds of accusation of wrongdoing and in our own minds self accusation blaming guilting sadness depression as that's the internal ized satan. There's there there are several strategies of how to get out of it. And one of it is like said, use humor. Tell a joke. Another is music. Another is dance. Another one is writing gratitude lists and reprogramming your mind to a different conversation, which is very doable and it's scientifically studied today as being effective clinically. Just have your brain start focusing on generating different sort of thoughts. We know the metaphor today of AI that Hashem created. You ask it a question, you get an answer. AI doesn't care what you ask. It has no feelings or opinions. It's just going to answer your question. So if you ask it, o tell me why today's horrible day, you'll get 15 answers. If you ask it, tell me why this is the greatest day of my life, you'll also get answers. It's that in the human brain is not different. It's not different. We get up in the morning, we start with negative stories and negative things and I have to worry about this and things from my past and things from my present and things from my future I'm worried about. Stop. Sit down in the morning. Have a glass of water. Have a glass of lemon juice and water. Eat, you know, drink something to get your system going. If it's a cup of coffee or whatever, tea or something healthy and sit down and write a gratitude list to Hashem. That is exactly what tell us to do. Has to be the first words out of your mouth. I'm so grateful, Hashem, that you gave me back my g thanks. We begin, every Jew begins their day with thanks. Thanks. So those techniques are very helpful because when you're in a situation of den, of prosecution, of negativity, of accusation, those strategies work. Humor will break a tension of a moment. Simka will overpower the tensions of a moment. Song can sometimes go deeper beyond the logical persecutions and prosecutions. But let's go further. Why is it that every single thing that we insert in uses this terminology and that's it. Think about the last edition. It goes like this. It says um in the book of of blessings of peace, right? OS tooshuos all sorts of good decrees and all sorts of comforting words right remember write those you know write those uh in that safer write us in hashem All right. So my question is why these two verbs remember write in the book remember write in the book doesn't need his memory memories his memories open for and he doesn't need a book and yet that's how we're describing the procedures of the assima very much so so that one action that you might take might tilt the whole world to be written in the book for good life and one action the other way might tilt the scale otherwise and there's a lot at stake but it doesn't make so much sense. We could set other things for example um you know just focus on right forgive us bless us why do we go through this idea of memory and migilla and writing something in a safe so I'd like to present the following incredible piece from the tukun zohar which answers this question tkune zohar located alf nun days says as follows. Purim is al-Seakim. The holiday of Purim received its name from Yum Kipper. Purim was named after Yam Kipper. In the midash of Rabbi Daniel Parish, his commentary on the zukun zor he says kipurim means like pim. No, the other way around that yum kipper right means kipurim. It doesn't it's not it's not that purim derived its name from yum kiper which is chronologically correct but that it's really on a deeper level on the panemia level is that the essence of yum kiper is based on p. What does that mean? Okay. Perm is even a greater level and therefore we compare Yum Kipper is Purim. Perm's on the high ground. PM is is the ultimate and Yum Kipper is on the way to Purim but not as great. These things are stunning. What is what is it going to say? Now think about it for a second. And here's a stunning revelation. If you look in the Torah itself, what verb what what Puk describes the battle of Amalik which is the centerpiece of the PM holiday. Hmon being representative of Malik. Mosha told Yoshua write this and put it in memory. Exactly what we say during the same precise formula right it remember it and put it in a safeair. those three words memory rightfair book it's a formulation of what a malik did to us door this is the ongoing battle of the generations is our battle of the malik now what is our battle with a malik I mean we're not in the times of Yeshua we're not in the times of kazal tell us 150 years before the tribes were exiled and and ofos he mished in we don't know where our Malik is. knew Hmon was mole. So he got his and his descendants got his more importantly but at least some of them and and that but there is no a mole genetically today but there is those who rise in the place of a mole. And what is the place of a mole? to accuse the Jewish people of moral turpitude, to say that we're evil and that we deserve to be judged in the ultimate judgment, which is life and death. The worst thing a court can convict somebody for is the death penalty. That's what we're prosecuting. This fellow that killed uh the this American who was a friend of Israel, this fellow, unfortunately, this fellow Charlie Kirk, a big debate now. give him the death penalty because that's the ultimate thing that a court can issue is the death penalty. A molec's job is his his his service to us and we'll see why it's a service is to accuse us to cause us to sin to accuse us and to punish us. That is what he wants to do. And the Satan as we know Malik the Satan the Sahara the Sar Asav who is our whipping boy where his whipping boy. Hashem created Asov as a punishing rod for the Jewish people. Not so much Ishmael but Asav. Yes. As of a Malik. Yes. Whenever the Jewish people are worthy unfortunately of a judgment comes Malik and is ready to offer their works and always at a time when we're about to rise to another on higher level Hmon comes up in the period right before the miracle miraculous return to Israel by Cheni Amalik shows up in the desert immediately before the Jews are supposed to receive the Torah and Hitler appeared right before the Jewish people would begin to return on mass Israel always a Malik is there saying wait a minute do the Jews deserve this special favor treatment from Hashem says the Satan I say otherwise they have broken your will Hashem they have gone against your word Hashem and therefore they should be destroyed and replaced that is the one consistent message of a mullik throughout the generations and that's the kitug that comes back every single year when we battle with Satan in a life and death struggle for the 10 days of chuva except except that the zo is revealing to us an incredible thing but perm is a day of joy but perm is a day of guaranteed success although there was accusations it was just the other way around the Jews come out in charge Mori and Esther rise to power and they declare and decree in the next generation to turn to the program of the great koresh Cyrus the great who said go back and build the temple and it's my will to do so they restart that whole program and use the money of the house of Hammon to fuel it incredible so what Hashem has told us about Yakipurum according to Tukunor is that there's a guaranteed happy ending now if you're going to watch a court drama and you know that in the end the accused will be how shall I say um uh forgiven but more importantly justified and come out victorious. That's what kazal say about us. The medra says when we come out of yam kiper we grab our forminium rul of an esrogue that's our sword. It's not the sword of which is made out of metal and kills people but it's a sword of prayer. It's a palm tree. We shake it and we wave it and we take an essog which represents our heart and our eyes and our minds which is above us and we celebrate our victory over over who? Over the ones who wanted to say such bad things about us when the reality is hold that which speaks well of Israel. The Tamar is the fruit of Torah, right? The estrog is and Torah, right? The eyes are the kind eyes of the Jewish people. the mouths are the generous mouths of the Jewish people. It's we are we are vindicated from the judgment. So by linking in the level of panemia's hatra that purim story is a purim yum kipper is really a purim we should have joy that this is a done deal. This court will reveal that the ultimate judge is au and therefore we should have sim and confidence. We put on our finest. We don't go and saclo and ashes like tishabove. We expect to win. We expect to steal the voices of our makatrick which is the purpose of chauffar. Chauffear is meant to as it says in the acronym of the words before you start blowing chauffear and there it's spelled out tear up the case the case is documents tear it up. So when we say remember and write in a safeair that specifically ties us to not only the story of a moch but specifically the story of pim because that's what it says in the Torah right and by evoking that inva we're basically telling hashem we expect this purim to be what it's supposed to be in in its deeper level which is purim The good guys win. Israel's triumphed. Our reputation is restored in the world. People start speaking the praise of the Jewish people. I want to join the Jewish people. We've reached the ultimate. I don't think it could get much worse. The cacophony of hatred. Probably could. But it's such a cacophony. It's so deafening. a deafening roar of accusation that we have to understand that this is so abnormal or maybe it's normal for non-Jews unfortunately or it's normal for the activities of their job which is to act as a molic that's their job to do what to draw us back to bring us back to where we need to get to Esther and Morai told the Jewish people fast do chuva and show love for each other, right? What do we say? That's exactly what took place on Pum. In PM, the Jews saw they didn't have a friend in the entire world. Not one nation stood up for them. Kind of like in the United Nations 142 to 10 condemned us when Netanyahu representing the state of Israel got up right on two days after Rashashana when they had declared before Rashashana to take you Yehuda Shamron Gaza and who knows where else and say it's all belongs to somebody else but especially your Kodesh and the Harabas will never belong to the Jewish people by international law and it's a crime to build a house in Shaman to do any changes to the so this is the reality it's it's and they all stood they all walked out on him they all and even the ones that stayed they left flunkies they left low-level you know they left the secretary uh the cleaning lady in putting them down sham the cleaning man and and he sat in the seat because the other delegates were uh busy doing more important things I'm listening to to it's almost comical. It is comical the level of the condemnation, the voice of the Sutton is so loud. But what ultimately is the Sultan but Hashem's servant. He's the rod with which Hashem smites us. He's considered the maka of Margus. He's a he's a male. It kind of gives us a little a little spank and sometimes a big spank to wake us up. The Jewish people at the time of Ro were condemned to death in the heavenly courts because they were apathetic when comes out and they joined and they feasted with him. What was he doing? He was wearing the garments of the co. He was serving from the kaim of the bdash as if to say that doesn't mean anything to me anymore. Jews don't need to return to Israel. Israel can belong to the Gam. We don't need Jerusalem. We're like everybody else. We're a nation among the nations. And they bowed down to who was the world controlling political figure at the time. And they ate from says, "I don't need you anymore. If this is what you're going to do, you don't represent me anymore. And where's our relationship?" Well, here's one more important point. So the Sultan comes at that time to smite the Jews back to their senses so that we just do what we need to do. Get back to Shu Davin Duchva give sodaka and this is the three-fold process of chuva and we will then be restored to what our our permanent relationship is with Hashem. Yeah, they say a permanent representative to the United Nations. Well, there's a permanent representative of Hashem in the world that's Kalisrael. And that leads me to the second incredible connection between Yumiper and Purim. And that is the concept of the goral made this um association in his writings many years ago. He said just like speaking about if Hammon cast lots to see what was the day that the Jewish people would be vulnerable enough to be destroyed. Okay. And in Yamke we also cast go lots at the most important part of the service. There's two identical goats seashel. One's going to be taken out aaza literally like aza to the barren destroyed and broken. every building smashed as smitherines and he's thrown over the cliff into oblivion. And that's one goal. That's one flip of the of the lot. And the other one we'll say kish hashem. Now what does this have to do with yam kipper? Like why is that so important? And what is that weird thing giving something to a zazal? I mean it seems creepy. You're giving something to who? To satan. What what what are we talking about here? So the salvich wanted to use it as a metaphor that we're basically asking Hashem to have pity on us and whether we did a little better job and we're kishem or we didn't do the best job and we were a little bit more not so worthy of being kishem either way we should be forgiven because we're all equal in other words whichever way you look at it we're still your people and forgive us that was his homalytical approach beautifully but there is a approach based more on pineia satra I saw in the name of Rabb Shabsai Rapaort who was the ro kola at at um at the university of bilani and he said he found a number of sources in kazal that we punish as using a goal. Now remember a couple of people did receive punishments through a lottery. For example, there was one Jew who stole from the uh heist when they when they walked around and everything fell down. There was one Jew named Akan who told who took gold and silver things and garments for himself and they knew there was one somebody who sinned and and Yeshua says tell me who it is I I'll punish him. So says buddy I'm going to tell you lush and har about a Jew tail goal. We use the goral to identify who is the culprit here. It's a res it's a revelation of the divine will when logic and prophecy are not available. Okay. Who else was identified by lottery? The portions of the land of Israel for the Jewish people. Well, the madrashim say that the miraculously the the lotteryies actually spoke. It was a giu of rats and hashem. This portion goes for this tribe and this is matched for this tribe. And there was all kinds of things that happened with that lottery that showed the incredible perfection of it and how it fell out perfectly. A gorel is a subtle revelation of Hashem's will. But often it's used for example to identify where the problem is. So for for Aan it was a problem. Yona, one of the centerpieces of the Yumiper story, right? They threw they cast lots to figure out who was the reason why the his boat was going to be destroyed. And the lot fell on Yona and Yona was cast to the sea. This is such a central idea. We read it in Yona. It's the central piece of the service in the Torah and their liturgy. The seazel and the seashem that's the service that's the part of the service. All right. So what what is this gor business and what's what's the connection? So rapper wanted to suggest that goal is used against our enemies because what it does is when it looks like Hashem is not is behind him with us, he still has a way to communicate his will for the Jewish people in ways that don't look very direct. not Nvoua and not uh historical illogical evidence but a subtle reference. The Jewish people can never be destroyed. To cast the lot that that Hmon did was foolishness. And the reason why is because to decide on the day the Jewish people will be destroyed is an impossibility. Similarly, Bum wanted to find the exact moment in the day where Hashem is angry with the Jewish people and hit that moment and curse the Jewish people with one word claim destroy them and there is that millisecond and and and Bum who's the source of who's a Malik's rebi essentially tried to hit that moment of anger of God to punish and destroy the Jewish people once and for all couldn't find it. You know why? Has hashem decided not to be angry on those few days that bum was asked by bullock to curse the Jewish people. It's not possible. The world cannot exist without the Jewish people to shinius. We are the hope of the world. Hashem can never abandon us because without Torah, there's no point. We can never be replaced and we can never be rejected. And this is what the nations of the world need to understand. And eventually you figure it out. Hmon figured it out. Okay. Um Agog figured it out when revealed to him, "Okay, guy. Now it's time to cut you in pieces," which was what Shaw should have done. Now your time is coming. He figured, he said, "Looks like I'm going to go scot-free." No, you're not going scot-free. You're on the hook. The goral is a trick that the goyam will cast a lot. It says about David Dol's clothing and till and they cast lots on his clothing. Little did they know that he would never be killed. Of course the Christians stole that concept and as they did everything from us whatever they have as our material and the goal shows that no matter what it will fall in the positive direction. Now the Mishna tells us that they used to do it and the right they would say to the god lift up in your right hand what your right hand chose and lift up in your left hand what your left hand chose and always miraculously the right hand said kesm and that was a sign that Hashem is with us it's a gor there's a famous you know it's it's a way of it always happened right it looks like complete circumstances it's like the burm story but you can't even see it coming it's so hidden And it's so bad to opponent, but it's completely controlled by Hashem. That's what a goal is. That's the perm story. And that's the yum kipper story, too. Because no matter what, there is no exchange for the Jewish people. There's no way we lose this case. We can't lose this case. No matter how strong the accusations, no matter how viferous the lies, no matter how invective and filled with with venom is the is the sinner, it's always filled with venom. It just doesn't get articulated as clearly as it does right now. But it's always there. But now as it pours out, the Sultan's pouring out all his arguments, we can take hope that this is the final g this is the final game of the Sultan. He's going for broke. He wants to win this case. He's got to come up with a way to say that we deserve those those four-letter words, kill aim, get rid of them. But it doesn't work and it will never work. So such is not the will of Hashem even in the hidden world of happen stance that looks like but there's a guiding hand there. That's the goresh. The gorill is always used to punish evil because when they figure out that they can't just say and do what they want about the Jewish people, they're just a tool of Hashem to bring the Jewish people back. And then they go, "Uhoh, I didn't realize like Aparo's heart was hardened so that Hashem could show his great love for the Jewish people." They become the tool in the hands of Hashem to show the incredible love and connection that Hashem has with us. If the judge is your father, you're not worried. If the judge is the most beloved person to you and you to him, you're not worried. When we go into with all these horrific voices, we are not worried. Adaba, we ask ourselves a question and notice, boy, this is unusual. What's going on? I've never had seen like this in my lifetime. I never saw anything so terrible. That means there's brilliance around the corner. There's something around the corner that could even happen this year and hopefully will happen this year that's going to turn the tide completely in the other direction completely just like Morai and Esther rose immediately to power. It was from was to it was we will be vindicated but we have to do what they did in Shushan Habira listen toim to Esther and Mori and she said write me in a safeair remember remember what that Hashem will always favor the Jewish people and put it in a safefair for posterity because at sometimes you might look not that way. You could look around the world that way and say, "I don't remember these things like this. How do I remember the times that were better?" It's written in the book. It's written in the safer Torah. It's written in in safer and safe in the battle of Sha. And then they came back, the sons of Sha, Morai, and Esther and rectified the final riddance uh of a malik in their time before Bayeni. And then there'll be another one bismanu the the final in the final judgment in the final days. We're very very close. The reason everything is so hot is because something is big big brewing very very big. All we got to do is follow the course and be confident. Do theer thing but remember what's in the safeair. We say it again and again and again. What's the memory? There is no replacement for the Jewish people. A malik will never win. They will always try to separate you from Hashem and condemn you to death. Condemn the Jewish people to be replaced by others. Condemn the Jewish people and take them off the shelf of history and say they're no longer relevant. They have no connection to Jerusalem. They have no connection to the land of Israel. They're not in the book. But of course, the book says otherwise. And that's what we keep saying again and again and again. Remember what's in the book. Remember what's in the Torah. Remember what's in in the in the in remember what's in the book of Esther. Remember what's in there. It shows that we have an unbreakable bond with Hashem. And the happy ending will come. And the Jews will be and will also be and they'll be praising us and loving us and carrying our bags and thanking us for the good governments that we bring to them and to the world. Just to mention one more thing about the gorrub in the in the um autobiography of Rabbi Schlommo Gorin, one of the great heroes, one of the great people of the 20th century. Forget heroes. Um he was he would rescue the bodies of the fallen soldiers as the job and the first rabbi ever of the IDF before he became the rabbi of chief rabbi of Israel was one of the great things of the of his courage that he went wherever necessary to rescue Jewish bodies even at tremendous risk and danger he went on minefields to take back Masonflow happened to him on a regular basis he he ran down to the hotel and when it was David's capture a little safer to in his hand blowing a chauffear. It cannot make up this things and evaded all the bullets of all the snipers and just a man of goal and we brought back 10 bodies and we they just didn't know who was who. They knew there were 10 fellows here but they were so disfigured that they could not identify them back in that day. It was hard to. And they called the sadic of that generation saddic in our time rabbi leav and they did something that was a tradition in in the community of the students of the gra the pushim of they said we're going to use goal hagra there's something called goral hagra they're able to use the tan to pick through in a certain way until they get to a puk and then everybody every one of the bodies rebin did the gor hagra and based on the puk he was able to identify who they were and that's how they were marked and that's how they were buried because the spark of Hashem's hasha comes back through the goral in the darkness in the moment of suffering beyond recognition the goal comes to remind us that we can never ever be forfeited by Hashem and Hashem will always be there in the end to rescue us to save us but we should have to do our part we have to do our chuva other people and don't be a judge but be a defender. So the job of each and every one of us as we are on our individual den for ourselves and our family individual den for those in our wider circle and community but we're also as part of kai Israel standing in the docket of judgment especially of the world in the worst possible sense now worse than the holocaust because even in the holocaust there were those who defended the Jewish people not openly so much but they didn't proclaim hatred now kimat the whole world. 142 out of 152 nations and seven of those nations are tiny little islands like Micronisia and Fiji who have about 10 people on it. So the only nations that really were there, not the British Empire, they're completely gone now. Not the French Empire, they're completely gone now. Not the Russians, not the Chinese, not the all the players in the world. Certainly not the Middle East. What? Three countries? United States, Hungary, and Argentina. Uh, and Brazil. No, it's Argentina. Brazil. Who is Malay? Malay is in Argentina, right? These three figures believe in the gorale of the Jewish people, believe in the correctness of our cause. And God should bless them. You know, one in North America, one in South America, one in Europe. I guess that's enough to hold up the world together with us here in Israel. That's four corners of the Koopa. That should be enough to hold the world up. Plus a couple islands out there here and there for vacation purposes like Micronia. So that's what's going to win the day. And so the go so let's review the the the idea that we repeat again and again is because we identify that Purim is the of Kipurim. We're being accused by uh by our vicious enemies for destruction. And yet, it's going to be the other way around. There'll be a happy ending. Morai will rise to prominence. The leaders of Kal Israel, the Torah leaders of Cal Israel, the people will return to their tradition. People return to the love of Hashem. And we will also rule over our enemies. I'll finish with this. That rabbi the rabbi of here in in Ramsh quoted something very interesting quoted saying that in Mish Pericimo not Mish in Mika perkimo it describes Kali Israel as a lion in the forest and as a young kir a lion a young lion in in a den of sheep at the end of days Mika's pro one of his prophecies third per is about the end of days means the Jewish people are going to be ravaging their enemies new haven't we seen this haven't we seen in this year an incredible thing the 12-day war against Iran the taking out of Houthis the taking out of Hezbollah the flattening of Gaza the destroying of leaders in Lebanon and Syria get with the program look at that claw Israel's rising to its to the lion state. And that's why the world wants to stop us right now dead in our tracks because it's inevitable. It's just inevitable. Our rise is inevitable on time on condition that we hold on to each other and respect our tradition. Come together and be kindly of one another and serve as a good voice for every other Jew. Never speak badly about any other Jew. You cannot be a prosecutor. You must be a sanor. We must be an advocate. Advocate for anybody. You can speak good for them. Think good of them. And with that, we will triumph in the courtroom of machuva, which we're confident in our in our in our victory. We'll celebrate the Kag of Purim. We'll pass by this two-year anniversary of October 7th, which comes right before Yam Kipper. And then we will celebrate on some Tora this year as we've never celebrated before. I wish everybody aarim. You see your [Music]