Hidden Miracle #4: Behind the scenes in the Book of Esther - Chapter 3-4

What’s said in this shiur

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

all right so last we left off in the middle of chapter three of mcgill ass esther haman was beginning his plot to wipe out to annihilate the jewish people um to this point as we mentioned last week already we have the first chapter and the second chapter are really the setup the remedy before the strike the remedy before the strike where god puts everything in place to bring about salvation would the jewish people be deserving of it so chapter one is where vashti the queen the queen of persia loses is deposed and chapter two is where esther is putting her place esther is crowned as the new queen as well as mordechai saving the life of athasverosh this is all preparation for all preparation for the salvation that is to come and then chapter 3 begins sort of the the where things start to go downhill mordechai standing up for jewish law standing up for jewish pride will not bow to haman haman uses this basically as an excuse to not just go after mordechai but to go after all the jewish people we left off haman had drawn a lot drawn a lot to figure out when would be the ideal time to annihilate the jewish people hamong was a big believer in randomness not much of a believer in god and order a believer in randomness lots was the way to figure out the ideal day and uh and even though he was drawing his lots in the month of nisan which is the first month there's two ways to count the jewish calendar but we'll call it the first month and he was hoping that the

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1. 0:05all right so last we left off in the middle of chapter three of mcgill ass…
2. 6:16despised the jews as much as haman did and he was more than happy to give…
3. 12:22specifically because the english was something like destroy now that's mabim does not learn and magni…
4. 18:29who are observing the mitzvah if everybody else isn't it's everybody's responsibility and we have an…
5. 24:39and they were trying to actually make themselves more similar to blend into the society and…
6. 30:50the money is given to you but the king the other king the king of kings…
7. 36:22doesn't say everything in the letter you're gonna find out and you'll notice that he summons…
8. 42:28seal wait till 13th of adar to open these to discover exactly who's being annihilated so…
9. 48:33common person didn't know what was it who who was going to be annihilated but the…
10. 54:36and he says there's always something that god has prepared to save like we said there's…

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