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Purim: Arur Haman and Baruch Mordechai

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this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com a person is obligated literally to get drunk on Purim as to the point where he doesn't know the difference between a very strange obligation why would anybody how could we uh ever even say such a thing that gazal expect us to become so inebriated that we don't know the difference between and even very interesting you know say there's an obligation that I'm putting a person is supposed to say and you're supposed to say well what's the reason for that you're supposed to say do you ever have anywhere in the whole Torah you have to say you know our Para or uh our antiochas or the bad guys we never find you have to say yeah what's this you're supposed to curse the bad guys was the curse someone you're supposed to give you're supposed to give Mordechai why so they have an amazing thing here in the introduction um to the commentary of the nasiva samishbat the one of the greatest works on hawaka is called the nasiva and the nasiva wrote a commentary on McGillis Esther called megilla cesaram and he writes in his no no he writes in his introduction to the Magilla the following if you take a look at number two foreign these stages of the Shahs have a Traditions were obligated to read it from beginning to land what are they teaching us why do you have to read the Magilla from beginning to end that everything in the megillah everything is needed for the miracle and then he says a few lines down he says God prepared to raise us up big grandma Milos to the highest level Australians to this point because I'll tell us that person is obligated to imbibe enough alcohol to not know the difference between specifically it's a Wonder Years why should a person get drunk what's the reason for that is we know that getting drunk brings to every forbidden practice every other in the world is caused by getting drunk and here on Purim for some reason command us specifically to drink wine okay so what the nasivas offers to us is a an amazing concept and it's a concept that really uh a person should think about not only every day of their life but really every moment of their life and that is we don't understand the repercussions of our actions we don't know how we could do one thing it could lead to be which could lead to C that could lead to D that could lead to e and ultimately everything that is caused by our actions we are responsible for for example you know you greet someone on the street you say good morning to them they're in a good mood because they're in a better mood they do a casa to someone that maybe they won't have done otherwise and they dedication to someone that person learns to do and his children learn from him and then for the next 30 Generations all the Hassan that are performing were all because you did one thing good morning you know we don't think of it like that way cesarsivos who was the good guy Mordechai or Haman Rabbi said we could make a very strong case the good guy in the Purim story was Haman and the bad guy in the burn story was Mordechai how could you make that case very simply think about it tells us some assess the Magilla we had 48 prophets in our history so basically did not do a great job yeah amazed no one listen to them nobody listened to Navin in fact year Mia we threw stones at him Zachariah we killed him you think people like to hear Musser you think people like to hear when the rabbi gets up and says you know if you don't come to minion three times a day maybe we were not gonna consider you a good Jew you know people don't want to hear that if people could they would take a sitter and throw it at the rabbi I don't want to hear people don't want to hear that if you don't learn every day you're not a good Jew people don't want to hear that if they could they would take the bhima and they you know cuff on the rabbi hard kadigas so all the Nevada basically did not do a great job you know who did the best job of Oman of him come on because by taking the Ring of and writing all the Jews should be murdered what did that make us do unheralded shuva on the highest level we ever had so if we were to ask which individual in history has the greatest come on Haman is the biggest Sadiq the world has ever seen this no question without a doubt Haman if you were to ask which person in history has the biggest success ever my sharabenu Jeremiah the person who has the greatest of course in history come on and if you'd ask and which person could we say maybe Shalom was the biggest did that which is the worst thing ever in the history of Kalisa Molokai no question why what did Mordechai do morkai didn't want to bow down to Haman she said what's bad about that who asked him to go on the street and when Herman comes by not bow down let him stay home let him learn in the base matters where do you think he spent his time what's he going in the street and then humans passing by and he's not bowing down to Hamad he's instigating Haman and because of that Helen wants to kill Claudia so which individual is responsible for the uh for the almost annihilation of kaiso Mordechai so the biggest static in history is the biggest we could make the case was Mordechai so you say yeah Mordechai didn't intend to cause our Annihilation Hammond didn't cause us to do tuba yeah but we know God pays a person back if a person causes something good even unattended if a person causes something bad even without kavana they're punished so Mordecai we're not so happy with him in fact the gemara says that claiso were constantly criticizing Mordechai they didn't like the fact you know who asked him to stick his nose into Hammond's face and then Thomas and then not bow down stay home eat your bagel eat drink your coffee don't go into homan's face don't go into Hellman's face a great guy someone's the best humans you know maybe we should make him we should put him up on the bhima yeah what's the answer what's the answer the answer is Haman didn't intend to do anything good Mordechai didn't intend to do anything bad but has and some demerit Mordechai has so how do we get around that so says made the following takana we know young man how you doing good we know made a takana like this we find that after afshalom was killed right after I've Shalom died so then Dominic said eight times when David said beneath each time that was invoking was the son of David and ultimately ultimately it took off Shalom out of the seven chambers of gehennam he said beneath one time he left chamber seven he left said beneath saying them six five and he said at the eighth time absalam went to Gane then so we see there's a certain thing that you could give someone a bracha take away their demerits says the good guy and how long is the bad guy you should be so famished and so tumult and confused and confused and fun accused that you don't know anymore who's better Mordecai or Homan because you think to yourself well you know got us into the mess hamon made it that we accepted so what do we do to take away haman's Merit all of classical every single year how many times do we clap when we say haman's name how many times name in the megillah four times God says I'm going to wipe out the 54 mentions let's take a look on Yoshida number six and with this we conclude so wonder what kind of thing is it you ever hear anybody going around saying no yeah yeah you never heard of such a thing why right is you know what the reason is everybody knows it's called issue he's called this yamini so the question is is he from you or is he from the um criticized look what this Benjamin did to me it's like besides that show didn't kill our God didn't mean a helmet hamon came out he wants to kill me um look what this yehudi did to like Kato David lashimi that dovid you know um let's uh Mordechai had a ancestor by the name of shimmy who really was supposed to be killed why wasn't he killed they had rahmanas on him from from shimmy K Mordechai the Jews didn't like Mordechai Taman even though kaiso were really liable to be punishment they did have great they had a thousands and they had great pain for nothing why do these thousands have to suffer because this Mordechai guy wants to be from me and go into Hammond's face and provoke him and then get him angry if Mordechai caused this tremendous star to call Israel yes he needs to be punished a little bit what do you mean but he's following the dictated that for the sake of killer shashem he needed to go into hamman's face and stick his nose in it and say I'm not going to bow down nevertheless there is some din on Mordechai Muhammad is also has the ring from akashvirus that accomplished more than the 48th Naveen her yes was the cause of this is seven times and he took him out of the seven chambers of gehenam why because he mentioned this of the Sun says in a Siva certainly if every year everyone gives Mordecai oh Christ is resting on Mordechai is removed by the Brach and whenever movement history is removed from saying this is the concept of having the simcha that we don't even realize what was greater because on the one hand yes Hashem saved us but on the other hand what was greater the fact that Hashem saved us or the fact that and because of Haman we reached the highest level of chuva we ever reached in our history that were macabola Tire what's greater Mordechai that ultimately God saved us or our Haman the fact that we have to curse hamon because of tremendous tuba movement he could be caused we should be on the madrega that we can't even understand the difference between the two in other words we should be able to comprehend that the fact that Carlisa reached such an exalted level of Kabbalah that was so great it even surpassed the fact that God saved Our Lives but this is an amazing concept when you think about the fact that even Haman who tried to annihilate our people the fact that something good came about as a result of his actions he has a reward for that and we have to you know we have to destroy that and the fact that Mordecai has a certain punishment what's upon because he made us suffer there's a certain Irish on him it's a tremendous concept of how far-reaching the repercussions of a person's actions are you never know a person no comes early to the Avenue and then another person sees oh they they come early to diving they also start coming to early to the Avenue and you know they may start coming early thousands of times and then other people learn from them and their children learn from them their grandchildren their great-grandchildren and you never know because of one tiny small mixer that you did you could be affecting literally millions of people and sometimes you know you say something improper to someone and it makes them uh insulted it makes them sad and as a result of that they may do another Ave and other people learn from that all of this is taken into account and that's the the limit of Baruch that no matter how terrible a person is if something good comes a result of their unintended actions they get scarred for that and if no matter how great someone is if something bad comes bad unintended we have to deal with that also about enjoy your day you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com