Achashverosh & Haman in Therapy: The Psychological Brilliance of Esther - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] the Scimitar [Music] but Shabana [Music] good morning to one and all today we're going to explore you can hear me today we're going to explore one aspect of the story of the Megillah we're going to read on put him this week I'll introduce it with a very interesting story the story they tell about somebody who's known as the mid to lever the mid tiller ever his name was rabbi Dave's bare last name was nuit and he was a son of the bow Latanya Irishness almond of lee adi the founder of Chabad and when his father passed away in 1812 the middle arab-arab Dave Bears who say yoga and Elaina succeeded his father as the second leader of the Chabad dynasty the first poram tough cough I endowed first poem I'm seeing tough co-firing gimel the first poor him after his father's passing obviously wasn't sure listening to the Megillah the custom then in this death law and I think they still have it in some communities around the world was that at the end of the reading of the Megillah the congregants would leave a tip-- who in the ball-carrier he would have a push girl he would have a little box and he would throw in a few ruble a few cup cos small amount of money as appreciation to the ball career to the one who read the Megillah and this was part of their you know purium income the mid to late ever goes out of show and he puts into the push they put into the monks a huge sum of money one of the Hasidim was quite perplexed and he says Reber why so much money as a tip to this ball carrier so the Rebbe says us our Shana my sir at that shelters are Shana my he just related such a beautiful story

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