A Standing Ovation | Rabbi Menachem Feifer

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

The pasuk says in Megillas Esther, after Esther told Mordechai to gather together the Yidden, Let them fast for my sake, to daven and fast that I should be successful going in to the Melech Achashverosh. Mordechai was עובר. What does that mean, ‘he was עובר’? So the Gemara brings two Pshatim. In the first Pshat, the word עובר is like the use we say when someone is עובר an Aveira. Mordechai was עובר, he transgressed the מצוות היום of Pesach and instead told Klal Yisroel not to eat Matzah and Maror, not to drink the four Kosos, but rather to pass the day in a fast day. Certainly a tremendous Chiddush that the Nevi’im are telling us, This was Mordechai’s decision. But the Gemara says a second Pshat. ויעבור מרדכי means עבר שלולית של מים. In his trip over to the other side of Shushan to spread the word that Klal Yisroel should fast for the sake of Esther,

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1. 0:05The pasuk says in Megillas Esther, after Esther told Mordechai to gather together the Yidden, Let…
2. 0:37and instead told Klal Yisroel not to eat Matzah and Maror, not to drink the four…
3. 1:08he was forced to cross across a puddle that was blocking his way. The Manos HaLevi,…
4. 1:39This line is teaching us such a יסוד גדול in life. A Yid that goes through…
5. 2:11and they brought out a player who no longer was able to walk, he was incapacitated,…
6. 2:43This man was עומד בניסיון, was מקדש שם שמיים בעולם.…

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