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Purim, Amalek and the Modern Era

6.8K views · Feb 23, 2018

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A shiur on Purim, Amalek, and their relevance in the modern era.

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[Music] no straightforward well we know this hero's modified zester story right in Helmand possessed then the big villains homonym parish you know it's really a 20-story the trees would really think about that so I Got News for you but the truth is if you really think about that what you should really never have happened not because of the Jews the sin that the Jews had done but the truth is that the Jews had done but the truth is the story is filled with unlikely circumstances and that's how we didn't see what for the spiritual divine underpinnings of our story let me show you the things that we should never happened first idea is that the story starts with but obviously they got really very lively and drunk then after church makes a request which in many ways is almost unheard of he requested Rushdie appears and that's really the beginning of the story showing very different things but he makes a request I need as much to appear that's just saying in a very inappropriate manner crazy nobody goes inappropriate manner crazy nobody goes there I mean with the Rushdie who's the Queen then no me to the Queen because if he does that in the Queen that's the end of any type of respect authority could you imagine the King of England whatever it's just the Queen Elizabeth where you got to come out you know how could you believe this nobody would believe this this is completely barbaric you uncivilized and the truth is even

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  1. 0:05[Music]
  2. 6:24said she'll green complexion you know I mean he must have loved the color green why
  3. 12:43rivals the brothers right if you had all your brothers because the last thing you want
  4. 19:08in any case this is a GU mafia we have we have let's put this way
  5. 25:33I remember they picked ax right Jews pre-tax if you kill all the Jews that's the
  6. 31:43Egypt is greatest nation on earth at that time on the Ramses right that means I'm
  7. 39:02tower however it was you know a thousand feet hard right right and the role of
  8. 45:19ready think about that we're not talking about some little local belief there's a religious or
  9. 51:34believe in God right it's still possible for me to do whatever I want cuz the
  10. 57:51here woody so Hamid said women you mean the guys that my ancestor tried killed they

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