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Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - Purim: Why Fight the Enemy?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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okay we mentioned a question last time I'm going to just pick up from there and we'll get started um you know today everybody you know can appreciate a good a good story a good movie you know how you know you usually we want a a very dramatic climactic ending and uh when we look at the poem story it things seem to be leading up to this you know great you know climactic you know God comes to save the day ending and all of a sudden it gets ruined and story goes on for a it gets ruined and story goes on for a whole another year that mean you know I mean if we were if we were trying to organize the story line we wouldn't really want to see it this way let me let me show you what I mean we know of course everything starts off with the Haman the villain you know wanting to destroy all of the Jews and it seems like he's going to get his way the king is working with him um he hates the Jews as much as the Haman it seems and somewhere you know in the middle of the story all of a sudden the King has a you

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  1. 0:17okay we mentioned a question last time I'm going to just pick up from there and
  2. 1:49decides it it turn to pay to pay to reward it's morai so instead of getting
  3. 3:52the story no what's essentially still going to happen is that it's going to come the
  4. 5:55they're fulfilling that which the Jews accepted once upon a time so they reverse it meaning
  5. 7:59love and everything was going great I mean we made a few mistakes along the way
  6. 10:06they had a festar hotel in the desert prided to them by God one person cannot
  7. 11:36world but through nature or we say within nature now in Egypt when we believe in
  8. 13:39guys don't have to do anything I don't think they would have been afraid here they
  9. 15:43appreciate now the the answer they couldn't so so why didn't they go into the land
  10. 17:44of their enemies and a miracle did occur a natural miracle and they brought it out

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