Purim and Elections in Israel

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

[Music] with hashem's loving grace welcome to amona beams news with your host laser brodie today's podcast is entitled purim and elections in israel by no happenstance purim occurs this year during the time of the election campaign in israel although israelis clamor to elect the leader and the party whom they feel best represents their interests we all know that no political party or politician in israel has the answers to the seemingly insurmountable challenges that we face over here both internal and external which only become more acute from day to day israel's complicated and unprecedented internal tension between right and left and between religious and non-religious becomes even more problematic in light of economic problems unemployment and the pandemic this is without even talking about the tension on our borders and iran's race for atomic weapons together with a constant existential threat against us so how do we overcome such difficulties let's look in the magilla of esther for an answer in the time of esther and mordechai the jewish people were in similar danger to ours even worse so how did they finally prevail the secret of national success since the dawn of our history is total cohesiveness between our spiritual leadership and our political leadership in ancient persia the jews faced an acute

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