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Charlie Harary - Purim: Unmasking Reality

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Rabbi Shay Tahan

A talk on the deeper meaning of Purim.

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And uh I have the zechut every once in a while to to talk to him. And every once in a while we talk about different things that are coming up on the holiday. So, I asked him again this week. I said, "Rabbi, give me uh what we should be focused on. What are the thoughts that are that you're go what's going through your mind sitting in Eretz Yisrael right now, sitting in Bnei Brak? What are you thinking about? What should we be thinking about? How should we be approaching this holiday?" So, what we're going to talk about tonight is going to be this the the hopefully building a little bit on what he's thinking and what he's saying. If it makes sense to you, it comes from the from him from the tzaddik. If it doesn't, it's cuz I'm the tzaddik. If it doesn't, it's cuz I'm the klie that doesn't say properly. It's what happens when you deal with mundane klie like me. The story of the of the Megillah is unbelievable. And it wastes no time to talk about how big of a story it is. Because we're not dealing with a situation in which the Jewish people stumble to drop. We're talking about a situation in which the Jewish people are subject to annihilation. What was going on during the time

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  1. 1:01And uh I have the zechut every once in a while to to talk to him.
  2. 5:35If Hashem wants to take the Jews out of Mitzrayim, Hashem could and should have done
  3. 10:13makos? Nice show, right?" That's awesome. You like, "Hashem, that was phenomenal." You like, "Okay, here's
  4. 14:50like magically they became free? You know when you become free? When you stop being scared.
  5. 19:27To show the world what it means to fast if we have to, to eat if
  6. 24:03way, I can't If everybody looks a certain I can't When you live in a world
  7. 28:39Nevuchadnezzar and everyone after Nevuchadnezzar understood, in 70 years they're coming back. So, Nevuchadnezzar is the
  8. 33:11I want them to like us. I shiver when the person in charge of my parnassah
  9. 37:49And the story begins. And now, how do we get to the solution of the story?
  10. 42:28that the reason why I'm in this world is to be like them because I have

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