Purim: The Amalek Attack - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[Music] one has to understand about poram that in one hands poor him is the great great yeshua fashion but at the same time there is something sobering about it and that is the Gemara tells us that the jewish people at the time were worthy or deserving of being destroyed meaning to say the fact that Haman got as far as he went is because we were high of misa we were actually high of Mesa at that time why would we high of Mesa so the Gemara says at least initially rebbi shimon bar Shimon bar Yohai asked his Tommy them for what they thought why was that generation high of Mesa and the initial answer they gave was because they got pleasure from the great party that a hush Pharaohs made such a rush made a great great party the beginning of the Megillah the third year of his reign the party lasted for a hundred and eighty days six months all of the nations all of the hundred and twenty seven provinces sent representatives and there were many Jews at that party and those Jews enjoyed the party and the Thome them said they were high of Mesa they deserved eradication because they enjoyed the party now similar McClay just asked well it's only the Jews that were in Shushan that went to the party why should the other Jews be high of Mesa so they answered because they had bowed down to idols in the days of neutral Netzer but i want to focus on the original answer when you say that jews enjoyed the party what's the big deal i mean what happened so let's say they ate traif let's say they drank non kosher wine you're not tired Mesa for that if a person eats traif it's a big

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1. 0:02[Music] one has to understand about poram that in one hands poor him is the great…
2. 1:04from the great party that a hush Pharaohs made such a rush made a great great…
3. 2:38a complicated discussion in the Gemara Magilla I'm not going to go over all of the…
4. 3:39so he's concluding Hashem has forgotten about his people they'll be no go they'll be no…
5. 5:12we like it here we're comfortable here we're happier we don't need to a life is…
6. 6:43telling anybody that if you can't learn with enthusiasm take off the day that's certainly not…
7. 7:44us vulnerable to our mullick and that's what the Guara means this pessimist says and it…
8. 9:14the mountain over our heads and forced us to accept the tower okay how do you…
9. 10:15poram commemorates the downfall of a mullick but when we commemorate the downfall of a Moloch…
10. 11:48days that are less similar in the whole Jewish calendar Yom Kippur and porom are the…

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