Rabbi Zamir Cohen - From Darkness to Redemption: Finding God's Hand in History

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

Let's take a deep look at what our sages teach us in the verses and in the prophecies about the meaning of a time like this. A time when the people of Israel are already back in the land of Israel and there are wars in the world and the Jewish people unlike in the past are actively fighting and playing a central role in these conflicts. So what does all of this mean? First of all, just look at the chain of miracles that has taken place. True, these are not miracles like the splitting of the Red Sea or the sun standing still in Gibian and the moon in the valley of Ilon as it says in the book of Joshua. The waters didn't turn to blood and there were no frogs like in Egypt. But there are miracles very similar to what we see in the book of Esther. In the book of Esther, there were no open supernatural miracles. And yet, there was such a precise alignment of events, such an incredible sequence of coincidences that only a fool could say it was all by chance and not divine providence. Unrelated events all came together. That night, the king couldn't sleep. He suddenly remembered that Mordei had never been rewarded. that connects back to Big Than and Teres. Esther is already in the palace after Vashi was killed at the feast. Hmon just happens to come in on the exact same day he plans to hang Mordeai. And instead, he's ordered to parade him on the king's horse. A chain of events that makes no logical sense. And when did all of this happen? After 3 days when the Jewish people gathered together in prayer, fasting and repentance, then that very night the king couldn't sleep and everything turned around and the people of Israel understood this is

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2. 5:40great mystic or a famous righteous figure. He was an ordinary person. In tractate Sanhedrin, Rashi…
3. 11:52our king. He has expectations from us not to burden us but for our own good.…
4. 18:05because we don't yet see it, sometimes a certain doubt can creep in. A person might…
5. 23:50temple and the Jewish people were exiled for 70 years. Then came Persia in the time…
6. 29:59way. God is already bringing the redemption just step by step, stage by stage as part…
7. 36:06truly rise to the moment, if we strengthen ourselves as we should, we can bring the…
8. 41:47night, they ate the Passover offering, a complete break, a transformation from the inside out. And…
9. 47:59forgot the Lord, your maker. Fear of human beings pushes God out of a person's awareness.…
10. 54:11a verse that says, "Behold, days are coming, says God, when I will send a famine…

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