Purim: The Mystical Interpretation of V'nahafoch Hu

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

Recording in progress. Okay, good afternoon everyone. I hope everyone's having an easy fast. Uh this is our final share before Purim. And we have amazing material today. Uh before we begin, take this opportunity to wish everyone a freilichen Purim. And there are a number of very exciting opportunities available here at Machon Maggid Rakia. We actually if you want to if you want to be able to take a look at all of them, we gave a separate clip of upcoming publications, but the kids are just as an intro to this year. We're working on the uh safer on chinuch habanim in English for ArtScroll. And among uh a number of other projects. And in lashon hakodesh, the safer Divrei Yaffah Be'Ittai, connecting the parshios to the time of the year. If anybody wants to participate in upcoming publications, please contact us. Okay, we know that one of the main themes of the Megillah, asar chodesh, chodesh Adar, bishloshah asar yom bo yahashar higia dvar hamelach vedas el hayehudim bayom asher sibru oyvei hayehudim lishtot bahem, venahafochu. We know venahafochu is one of the main themes of the Megillah, that everything was turned around. Venahafochu. And it was turned around. Well, what's the it? He was turned around. Who's the he? It doesn't say the venahafoch hamatzav, the venahafoch hasituation, the venahafoch the storyline. It says venahafoch who? Hey, what's the who? Who's the who? Who's who? So, that's the big question. The Ben Ish Hai wrote a safer of riddles. And in one of his riddles he poses the following riddle. He says, "Why did Haman see

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1. 0:00Recording in progress. Okay, good afternoon everyone. I hope everyone's having an easy fast. Uh this…
2. 2:06fit to instigate against the Jewish people?" Haman said, "Listen, my grandfather detracted three. He left…
3. 4:38said, "I'm 95 and the problem is he thought he could attack because he equals the…
4. 6:41that song, you get a free edition of the North Korean translation of the concealed and…
5. 11:27if hu, if the letters are arranged hu, you can't do anything with it. It's landlocked.…
6. 14:01there's one exception. Asher hagla'ah mi Yerushalayim maleh. Im hagoyim asher haglah ehem mi Chonyahu Melech…
7. 16:04from the shem Havaya. Yud from Yerushalayim. And that's the rashei teivot. Venahafoch hu asher yishlotu…
8. 18:41for the first time laughing at my jokes. It took about six of them until you…
9. 20:45Gimmel Middos Shel Rachamim. Now, according to the Baalei HaTosafos, the Yud Gimmel Middos Shel Rachamim…

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