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Purim: Russia Vs. USA ; Is This The Final War? - Probing the Historic Tradition of the Vilna Gaon

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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prepared for Purim that is because you have not yet purchased the concealed and the revealed you might have shahmanas you might have a costume but you don't have this book yet and even if you have this book you might not have this book so you got to have you got to get both of them you know there's there's good stuff in both what's in one is not necessarily in the other okay Marvel voice I fasten your seatbelts I was so uh stirred by this year I said you know what the Hashem should give Seattle to the shmaya we have to have another one so and maybe not obviously not next to you can't sell another book on Forum next year but after tonight's sure it's going to completely completely revolutionize our understanding of current events and what's unfolding in front of us I want to begin by discussing the following uh subject there's an individual who plays a major role in the Purim story and not only doesn't get a lot of credit he don't get no credit nobody even talks about him and I think we could argue after what we're about to learn he is the central figure in the Purim story so who's he talking about Mordechai he's he's the hero you're not talking about Esther oh he says Daniel I'm not talking about Daniel no we already know we covered all of them you know we have a shield makes a number of

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  1. 1:34prepared for Purim that is because you have not yet purchased the concealed and the revealed
  2. 5:46boracious so Gabrielle's already there he's like you know Paving the way for the hanging of
  3. 10:07I mean he's doing everything he made vastly grow the tail he woke up against another
  4. 14:32over here okay here is this is the seminal question in history so this is not
  5. 18:48a mug the handle of a mug that possibly akashvirosh once used to drink hot chocolate
  6. 23:02hot coals on our own pick up the hot coals drop it on Jerusalem and Destroy
  7. 27:16says the command condition that when Daniel envisioned Persia he envisioned Persia as a bear because
  8. 31:32we're still we need to be subjugated by the Persians and therefore it's not time for
  9. 35:42means and the end of days there'll be two Powers left in the world there's Rome
  10. 40:04you have it in on your sheet over here this is from the biography of reviews

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