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Happy Chanukah! Which Galus is Haman From?

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Hi, this is David Olowski with our special question and answer series. Anonymous writes, now that Kaneka is coming, I'm reviewing the four golas, which is interesting because the Maharal and near mitzvah introduces Kaneka in the context of the dal golus. I assume that's why you uh brought this up. You must been going through the Maharal and what they represent. I can't figure out why purim is associated with gullis porus or madai if the bad guy who was hammon who is from a mole is from as could you clarify this yeah this is really a pm question though isn't it yeah but I will answer it anyway because you you use that little tag at the beginning of kaneka so that put a pulled us in [laughter] this really deserves a full podcast to do justice to this particular question but let Let me say it like this. There is a zya that says that bumam and bullock are oios bll and a malik. You could take the letters and rearrange them to spell it a malik and bl. What does that mean? A malik doesn't have malus. A malik is not a kingdom in that sense. The dal malios represent malus. They represent kingship. They represent a force in nature. A mullik is a force of chaos. A malik wants to destroy the Jewish people and they are suicidal in their desire. The coali says hama nothing that I have is worth it to me if the Jews are still alive. As Hitler said, this war is between the Germans and the Jews. All else is facade and illusion. That's all they want is to destroy the Jews and they are selfdestructive in their attempt to do it. Um Malus doesn't work that way. So the Gmorra and McGillah says a was a bigger anti-semite than Hammon. He hated us more than Hammon did. But he had expediency. When it served his purposes to be good to the Jews, he was good to the Jews. When it served his purposes to destroy the Jews, he would to destroy the Jews. He didn't care. He wasn't invested. He didn't care that much. But Hammon, his only desire was to destroy the Jews. And so the message is that Bum whose hatred for the Jews were complete much more than Bulock. Bulock just wanted them to go away and not to attack him. But Bum wanted to curse them out of existence. When that force of destruction of the Jewish people have the ear of the Malus and join together, that's what creates Purim. And so Bavl, which of course took the Malus from Ben Israel and passed it on to Poras, right? And in fact, Akash's only claim to the throne was that he married Balshhatzar's daughter. When um when they come along and join with a Mullik, that represents Purum, the total destruction of the Jewish people because a Mullik doesn't always have the power to destroy us the way that they could. I live for can everyone.