Rabbi Mendel Kessin: The Real Story of Purim

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

in many ways very appropriate to talk about porn but polymer has an enormous amount of depth there are many questions one can ask about poram you know now we all know the story obviously you know you have the hero and the heroine you have more high arrests right every story needs a hero and he's a heroine right and of course every story needs a villain and an accomplice well we got that also right we have Josh Harris who is really it's hard to know if he's a villain or whatever I think personally that isn't it's a terrible person sound cuz apparently are not sure he's a shooter or Russia you know whatever it's anyway I vote that is Russia but anyway in any case and of course Amin who in many ways is the arch enemy of the Jewish people certainly at that time and of course home and we decided we want to destroy the Jewish people all of them and what's interesting is that that was the last time historically that the Jewish people were under one government one Empire Persia that was the last time after that the Jews in many ways were spread but he really had the opportunity to truly destroy all the Jews even in our recent time we hit the emerging I couldn't do it because obviously the Jews all over the world like an American so on you know but of course he wanted to destroy European Jewry but a Hamid could have done it he could have destroyed every single channel and after that the Russian made sure that no Jews would no longer be on the one Empire so they would have that ability in any case version was very tremendous Empire I'm in Nicholas starts off with 127 provinces and so on that was under

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1. 1:08in many ways very appropriate to talk about porn but polymer has an enormous amount of…
2. 7:02Vizier he's basically the second most powerful man in the Persian Empire you know and as…
3. 13:22there was no atheists in those days you see because everybody believed in God he just…
4. 19:38it's the profound reason why the version hates them in that sense and it's also why…
5. 26:11to if you want to survive but basically it's painful I don't care who you bosses…
6. 32:47so therefore atheism is a way it's a strategy but it's really a poor way okay…
7. 38:47their God murdering people right licentiousness thievery all kinds of stuff this is known in Greek…
8. 45:20provides an exit an exit from the obedience of what God requires this is what it…
9. 51:48money and the guys sitting across the table said she's been what are you doing what…
10. 58:19kill this type of religion I must kill the Jews to eradicate that religion that's why…

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