Can You Make Sense of Your Life? How Mordechai Transformed Esther - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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all [Music] let's open [Music] up with one detail in the story of puim which may seem as like a detail but as we shall see it it is really one of its pivotal moments if not the pivotal moment it's in chapter 4 of The Book of Esther of the the Milla this is Midway and middle of the story aashish has been a king he has executed his Queen vashi he has appointed years later a new Queen Esther he has uh given tremendous prominence to his prime minister hamon hamon has ploted successfully a decree and persuaded the king aashish to embrace it to choose and designate one day in which every Jew living under his Empire would be KH exterminated man woman and child chapter 4 M finds out what happens Mardi who is of course a close relative to Esther the queen even though Nobody Knows It Mardi who is one of the Great spiritual Jewish leaders at the time and is also close to the Palace as an adviser to the king as well M finds out what happened and the first thing he does is he rents his clothes he tears his clothes he cries and he sends a message to the Queen the first lady and the message of course is go straight into your husband and plead for our people Esther sends back a message to M and the message is impulsively it makes sense but rationally it doesn't make sense because you have to understand who

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2. 6:16lost and then says and who knows what were whether it was not for this moment…
3. 12:32their problem it's not my problem why should I go into the palace and die even…
4. 18:47like Give me liberty or give me death it's not what m is saying you would…
5. 24:56second location which is the aaz mountain how is this decided through a comes the the…
6. 31:08question I don't understand how do we say that the two goats of the Mitzvah is…
7. 36:59but if I'm right this says this means that theah is you have to buy twins…
8. 43:16have to be certain this is the father and this is the mother how are we…
9. 49:35apart from the same mother and this is what you bring y Kipper and Pim is…
10. 56:15person comes into the house and starts doing whatever he wants completely whatever he wants breaks…

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