Purim Fest 1946 and the Ancient Origins of the Purim Codes (Inside Artscroll)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the jewish people not only experienced the miraculous salvation but they turned around and they attacked their enemies and the megillah records that in shushan they killed five hundred amalekim whereupon the king king achash turns to his queen esther and he says to her whatever you want i'll give you what's your request and esther makes a very odd request [Music] do me a favor king tomorrow i want to hang the ten sons of haman what an unusual request the ten sons of human were already killed why is esther she's given a blank check the king says whatever you want esther could have asked for anything and she chooses to hang ten dead amalakim it is well known the stirring observation and discovery of rav mikhail berwich mandal the great the great master of the codes of the torah as we know historically in 1945 in the aftermath of the holocaust a international military tribunal was set up to try the nazi criminals and they chose the city of nuremberg because nuremberg was a hotbed of nazi activity and that's where many of the demonstrations took place and the trial began in 1945 and it was postponed until 1946 and 11 nazis were tried so you had and 11 nazis were tried so you had goring and frick and ribbon trump and streicher yamashima 11 nazis were convicted and they were sentenced not to be shot which would have been a more respectable way to go they were sentenced to be hanged and when these nazis heard they were going to be hanged they shuddered they they felt this was a demoralizing degrading way to die one of them committed suicide goring committed suicide and these nazis were supposed to be

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1. 0:00the jewish people not only experienced the miraculous salvation but they turned around and they attacked…
2. 0:31do me a favor king tomorrow i want to hang the ten sons of haman what…
3. 1:01the great master of the codes of the torah as we know historically in 1945 in…
4. 2:04and these nazis were supposed to be hanged in the year tough shin of 1946 but…
5. 2:35shin zion the precise year that another 10 nazis 10 am alaikum were hanged and therefore…
6. 3:38tough shin zion which is 707 1707 of the jewish calendar 2707 so how do we…
7. 4:10magilla we also have a number of big letters in the beginning of the megillah you…
8. 4:421648 1649. and in that year the decree of haman actually came to fruition haman wanted…
9. 5:45tragedy of the jewish people and hauntingly then if we have a big love in the…
10. 6:15historic document that contains in it a degree of tragedy and that's why the early achronim…

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