Is Another Purim Happening Before Our Eyes?

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

of your source sheet. It begins with the words operation raising rising actually operation rising lion. And that is that uh the Baal Shem Tov says that everything that a Jew sees and hears is a lesson in life. In other words, nothing happens randomly in the world. And anything that I encounter, you encounter, we encounter, whether it's individually or collectively individually or collectively we're not just uh detached observers and bystanders but rather we are active participants. They say there are three types of people. Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who want to know what happened. I feel that always in life we have to ask that question, in which group am I in? Do I make things happen? Do I watch things happen? Or do I turn around and like, can anybody tell me what happened? So, what the Baal Shem Tov was really saying is that in every situation I make saying is that in every situation I make things happen. And what that means is I'm never just a bystander because there's an active message, there's an invitation by the creator of the world to be involved in it. In fact, there's a beautiful teaching from the Maggid of Mezritch and the Baal Shem Tov and it says in Pirkei Avot histakel bishloshah devarim you should look at three things and the first thing is da mah l'ma'alah mimcha. Know what is above you. Literally it means you should always know that there's something above you. We're not alone in this world.

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