Rabbi Mendel Kessin: Amalek and the Spiritual Essence of Purim

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

foreign [Music] foreign uh in honor of the rabbi's second grandson born this morning in Tel Aviv by his daughter elisheva and hagai rosillio with God's help be a source of Pride joy to his family and he died Jewish people then I have here we should better have a say no problem foreign fundraiser [Music] and Kim the Pisco Drive for families in need for the upcoming for families in need for the upcoming holidays a link to contribute can be found in the YouTube description box below and on the ebony website 100 of the funds are distributed directly to those in need please give generously take that [Music] also this year should be a blessing and a merit for the should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina versus and you're shave and you swirl the Yemen wolf bench wolf [Music] okay next week is forum [Music] now if you ask people what is Purim really all about well they'll tell you it's really a dramatic story obviously you know you don't have to be too much of a learned scholar do you know what Purim is about because it's really uh it's a story right of uh it seems to be had solo rescue of uh it seems to be had solo rescue they were threatened with genocide by this his name is Homan Persian and not prime minister but he certainly was a Glam brazier maybe was the Prime Minister and he of course threatened the Jewish people we know that and we have two people Mordechai and Esther being the hero

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2. 5:41why do we have all these let's take a look at some music you ask yourself…
3. 11:56story of a molec you know Harmony instead of malachite now we know the um the…
4. 18:08you see there's a lot of people that hate God that will want to kill the…
5. 24:49so on you know so what do you mean you want to kill these guys right…
6. 31:55turisha big Salve the written Torah they accepted when God wanted to give them the oral…
7. 37:36make it that is Incorporated in the stridings of men you see to be able to…
8. 43:45you see because what they realized finally is that there's no justice in their legal system…
9. 49:58why you need the oral law and that was a taken a rectification of the Jews…
10. 56:07increase the unity of the Jewish people because in the end it's all about us forget…

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