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A Torah shiur by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein on the divine irony in the war against Iran.
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For many years, one of the main themes we like to focus on in preparation for the Yom Tov of Purim, and it's an idea we should think about all year round, is the divine irony of the Purim story, specifically what the Gemara refers to al ha'eitz asher heichan lo tana lo heichan, that all the plans, all the machinations that Haman and Achashverosh used to try to annihilate the Jewish people, Hashem co-opted, harnessed them, and used them to backfire, used them against Haman and against Achashverosh, to the point where we pointed out at the very end of the story, that the taxes that Achashverosh used to tax the whole world, we read in Sefer Ezra, those that tax money was ultimately used to rebuild the Second Beis Hamikdash. Well, actually, this phenomenon is coming to sharp attention in the war against Iran. Amid the biggest concentration of United States military build-up in the Middle East in many decades,
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- 0:00For many years, one of the main themes we like to focus on in preparation for…
- 0:32against Achashverosh, to the point where we pointed out at the very end of the story,…
- 1:04there is a detail and an element of irony that has not been given the proper…
- 1:36as a weapon, the United States as a country that has a nearly $1 trillion military…
- 2:07against the Islamic Republic. Now, actually, this drone was developed by Iran to help Russia in…
- 2:37by the great success of the low-cost drone attacks. So, the United States made covert efforts…
- 3:09Parshas Zachor repurposed Iranian drone technology to attack Iran. This is what we see not only…
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