The Miracle Before Purim - R. Eliyahu Maksumov - TorahAnytime.com

There was a gorgeous king and a non-Jewish king who hated the Jewish people and he was a tyrant. He was a terrible person. He would always always be very mean to the Jews and he always found excuses to how to make money out of them and he would charge them taxes and one day he came up with a clever idea. He called over the Jewish people and he made a court case and he said I want to tell you something. You know that you owe me 10 tikka of silver. 10 tikka of silver is a lot of money. They want you to pay me all this money up. Billions of dollars. He says I want you to pay me up and I want you to pay me up before the 13th of Adar. You know why? He says because my great grandfather was Haman and Haman paid 10 tikka of silver to Ahasuerus to destroy to kill the Jewish people. But did he succeed? No. So all that money didn't end up being used for what it was meant for and in the end Mordecai and Esther did all their tricks and in the end Haman didn't succeed. All that money that he spent on destroying the Jewish people went to waste. So he says now you have to pay me back. You have to pay me back 10 tikka of silver. So the Jewish people said but our dear king, how are we going to pay back 10 tikka of silver? It's so much money. We're never going to be able to pay you back. Even if we sold all our houses, all of our property, all our fields, it still won't amount to the amount that you want from us. We're not going to be able to pay you back and he started laughing. He says exactly and therefore I'm going to kill you. Now I have a good reason to kill you. So he was laughing to himself. He felt so good. He says now I'm going to kill the Jewish people or somehow they're going to borrow money and they're going to have to actually collect all this money. I'll be a very very rich king. And the kings were the the Jewish people were so sad they didn't know what to do and they went to their shuls and they decided to daven. They prayed to Hashem and they davened and davened and davened and eventually this the word came out and there was a great rabbi his name was Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi. He was known otherwise as the Arizal and the Arizal heard about the story and the Arizal said that the Jewish people the reason it's is to them is because they need to do teshuva. If they do teshuva, Hashem is going to take them out of the mess. It must be they did something wrong, and Hashem wants to wake them up. Hashem doesn't just send trouble for no reason. So, he sent a letter to the Jewish leaders in Syria, in Damascus, where this happened, and he said, "I want you to know that this is all happening cuz you need to do teshuva." And the Jewish people started doing teshuva, and they fasted, and they did everything they can, and the 13th of Adar was coming closer and closer. And one night it was a very windy night. It was so windy that the wind was picking up the trees off of the ground, and it was uprooting them. And that night the king went to sleep, and in his dream he found himself in the center of town. And he saw all of a sudden, he notices where everyone's walking calmly, he sees there are 12 gallows. And he notices 11 of them are used. There are 11 people hanging. And he comes up to somebody, he says, "Excuse me, but do you know who those people are that are hanging?" Can you Can someone here guess who those people are? The Jews. Haman and his sons. Haman and his 10 sons. So, they said, "Yeah, those are That's Haman and his 10 sons over there hanging." He says, "That's my great-great-grandfather." He says, "Yes, that's your great-grandfather." He says, "But what's that extra noose over there? Who's that for?" "That's for you." "You deserve to be hung along with Haman cuz you're no different than your great-grandfather Haman." So, he said, "What?" So, he realized the people wanted to hang him, so he was trying to run away in his dream. And they caught up to him, and they took a rope, and they tied it around his back, and they started pulling him and dragging him to the gallows. And in his dream he was screaming, "Please, have mercy on me." And they said, "Yeah, we should have mercy on you? Did you have mercy on the Jewish people when you threatened them to kill them? When you wanted to You wanted so much money from them, and you knew that You knew they're not going to be able to pay you back?" "And that was okay? And we should have mercy on you?" And they were bringing him closer and closer to the gallows, and he was screaming, "Please, please, what can I do to get myself out of this?" They said, "There's only one thing you could do. You have to take out a receipt, and write on the the that the people already paid you 10 kikars of silver. They don't owe you any more money. The Jewish people don't owe you any more money and you have to make a promise right now that you're not going to bother them anymore. So, in this dream he was so desperate, he took out a receipt, he started writing on this the receipt, "The Jewish people paid me 10,000 car of silver." And as he's writing all of a sudden the wind came in his dream and it picked it up and he flew and the the the receipt flew away. And all of a sudden after this happened, he wakes up. And he realized it was all a dream. And he said, "Ah, it was just nonsense." But you see, this is not a regular dream. When you have a dream that you're eating ice cream, it's just a the silly dream that you're eating ice cream. But in this dream, you know what happened? Because you actually wrote it in his dream, it actually happened in real life. And as he was sleeping, he didn't realize he was actually writing a receipt that the Jewish people paid it back already. And that receipt, the wind came and it picked it up and it flew out the window. And it flew and it flew all the way to Safed where the Ari Zal was. And it was blown right into the window of the Ari Zal. The Ari Zal was praying for the Jewish people. And when the Ari Zal saw this receipt, he realized it was from Shamayim, it was from heaven. And he took the receipt and he and he sent it with a messenger all the way down to Damascus. And he told them the people over there, "Hold on to the receipt. Do not tell the king anything until the 13th of Adar when he's going to come and tell you payday. Pay me up. You're going to show them the receipt and you're going to say, 'Listen, we already paid you. We have the receipt for it.'" So, the Jewish people were holding on to the receipt. And finally came the day where the king said, "Where's all my money? You have to pay me." And he made a big court case and he said you have to come in and if you're not going to pay me, I'm going to kill all of you. And the Jewish people came with the receipt and they showed it to him. And he saw the stamp of the king. He saw the signature of the king. He said, "This is my signature." And he recognized the receipt from his dream. He says, "Ah, it must be you see the Jewish people, Hashem loves them, he takes care of them." And he remembered the promise he made in his dream and he got scared. And he says, "I'm never going to bother Jewish people again." And he let them go. You know what the lesson of the story is? What's the lesson of the story, anybody? Don't mess with the Jewish people, very good. That's the pull off. You know what else the lesson of the story is? You do teshuvah, Hashem can make anything happen for you in an instant. You show that Hashem care of you, Hashem will take you out.