Purim in Perspective #3: Lessons for Our Time

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

okay so we're in class number three now of TM in perspective and uh not that it relates to class number two or class number one in any uh chronological or direct way but uh today I wanted to talk about PM as it relates to the times that we find ourselves in maybe lessons that we can take from the PM story to uh to our time um because of course um we find our time um because of course um we find ourselves now in a uh challenging moment in history Israel is at war or people are at War and um and there's people who want to wipe us off the face of the Earth just as they did in every generation and particularly in the times of the Milla with h so uh so I want to maybe share a little perspective on how we look at one of the perspective on how we look at one of the main themes of PM which is the idea of Hester pum of God's hidden face um and uh the reason I say that's one of the main themes is because of a um enigmatic comment in the gamar in the tud found in um and that is the First Source on the source sheet for those who have the source sheet it says the gamar there asks about I think

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1. 0:03okay so we're in class number three now of TM in perspective and uh not that…
2. 4:18uh a comment of the vagon in his commentary on the Milla and uh it's not…
3. 8:57this the miracle of Egypt has the expression outstretched AR is the same expression as V…
4. 13:01at a time of Hester upon him even at time that I am hidden but uh…
5. 17:40there's Hester there's hiddenness there's also G to be Esther I I think maybe he's taking…
6. 22:20hand is is is stretched out towards us and that even when his face is hidden…
7. 26:29ourselves and pass that on to the Next Generation that is something that that type of…
8. 31:02setting in the times of after the destruction which is where the PM story takes place…
9. 35:09came he came up to the king's gate is not allowed to um come to in…
10. 39:49say we have a sister in the in the palace and they will neglect their prayers…

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