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Happy Chanukah! Which Galus is Haman From?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Olowski with our special question and answer series. Anonymous writes, now that Kaneka is coming, I'm reviewing the four golas, which is interesting because the Maharal and near mitzvah introduces Kaneka in the context of the dal golus. I assume that's why you uh brought this up. You must been going through the Maharal and what they represent. I can't figure out why purim is associated with gullis porus or madai if the bad guy who was hammon who is from a mole is from as could you clarify this yeah this is really a pm question though isn't it yeah but I will answer it anyway because you you use that little tag at the beginning of kaneka so that put a pulled us in [laughter] this really deserves a full podcast to do justice to this particular question but let Let me say it like this. There is a zya that says

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with our special question and answer series. Anonymous writes, now that…
  2. 0:31hammon who is from a mole is from as could you clarify this yeah this is…
  3. 1:01that bumam and bullock are oios bll and a malik. You could take the letters and…
  4. 1:33and they are suicidal in their desire. The coali says hama nothing that I have is…
  5. 2:05Gmorra and McGillah says a was a bigger anti-semite than Hammon. He hated us more than…
  6. 2:35And so the message is that Bum whose hatred for the Jews were complete much more…
  7. 3:05Israel and passed it on to Poras, right? And in fact, Akash's only claim to the…

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