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Purim: Divine Providence - Haman, Ferdinand, & Stalin {Manhattan High School For Girls}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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and they hear that they're the students and teachers favorite speaker that's always uh very exciting and then somebody came over to me robert gladstein i'm so excited that you're here i'm pumped so that really got me energized to share with you a few words about uh the umpif of purim haba elenola i want to share with you an original insight into the magilla and i believe that this insight will give us a passage will give us an opening into understanding not only the events of the purim story because i believe that after uncovering this nugget this is literally the central theme of the purim story even though at first glance you may not notice it this will be a central theme in jewish history in world history and i think an important vantage point to understand current events and the events that are unfolding before our eyes on a daily basis so mcgillis esther concludes in the final chapter in the 10th chapter mcgillis esther perekyod teach you a little english so that you have the last pasuk and the second to last plastic what do you call the second to last the pen ultimate and the third to last is called what the anti-penultimate so the anti-penultimate puzzle mcgill assessor the third to last possible says taxed the people so that is the summit the crescendo the grand finale of the purim story is not only were the jewish people saved not only did we turn around and attack our enemies but taxed the people i mean is that really very exciting is that really of note why is that even recorded in miguel's esther you know the next passage in the megillah is a very important fundamental pasta in the magilla the pasta says

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  1. 0:31and they hear that they're the students and teachers favorite speaker that's always uh very exciting
  2. 3:47achasha's head he banged his head against the floor 366 times and by the way that
  3. 7:32a decree that he got word to his astrologers that the jewish savior is going to
  4. 10:40episodes where this type of hashikaka pratas is extremely noticeable so haman has this great decree
  5. 14:32just said be ready for the 13th day of adar so now let's turn the tables
  6. 17:36he cannot make an independent decision yes he's a tyrant he's a dictator that's when it
  7. 21:18hijacks it and he uses it to bring salvation to the jewish people so let's fast
  8. 24:32continues to work this way throughout history and in our own time you ever hear of
  9. 28:19convert a third and they would expel a third that's why by 1920 [Music] that i
  10. 31:56forced labor camp and it was shabbos and that night was going to be purim and

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