Understanding AntiSemitism: Lessons from Haman & King Achashverosh

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

an angel appears before a man and says to the man you have three choices and you can choose one of these three you can choose brains wisdom or number two you can choose beauty or number three you can choose money $10 million the the man thinks for a moment and he says I choose brains all of a sudden a lightning bolt shoots out from the sky and the man finds himself in the middle of a desert naked without any food and the angel is standing in front of him and says now that you have wisdom what do you say he says you know what I should have asked for the money what is Jewish wisdom say about anti-Semitism the story of puim is a story of anti-Semitism H goes to a and he says I want to give you $10,000 to give me permission to destroy the Jewish people says the gar the following Parable thear says that this incident between hon and a is a mush a parable of two people then own Fields one field has AIT one field has a hole in the field the other field has a tail which means a pile of dirt and so the person that has a hole in the field goes to the person that has a pile of dirt in the field and says I would like to pay you to buy that pile of dirt to be able to fill the hole in my

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1. 0:00an angel appears before a man and says to the man you have three choices and…
2. 2:12field and the owner of the pile says why should you pay me I'll be happy…
3. 5:02if hon wants to destroy God forbid and annihilate the Jewish people means there is no…
4. 7:43security and I said to my friend you are missing the boat unfortunately the guard is…
5. 10:00cannot go into my field there's a problem there there's a pile of dirt I need…
6. 12:34is the problem that's one type of anti-Semitism a had 127 provinces there are Jews all…
7. 15:10Torah not us in other words the nations of the world said we want the beauty…
8. 17:23response comes along the Milla which tells us the problem and the Milla gives us the…
9. 20:08impressed because the answer is if God does not protect the city no guard will protect…
10. 22:54this is the mission of Our Generation this is the final mission of our Exile as…

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