I was reading Conversations 3 on Shabbat.

I decided to open it up ‘randomly’, as of course, there is no such thing as ‘random’ in the world.

This is what I opened it up to – still so, so relevant for today.

(BTW, Conversations 3 is a really excellent book… I know I put it together so I’m biased, but really, it is.)

Enjoy!

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BEING HAPPY ON PURIM IS A MITZVA D’ORAYTA

Now, we are before Purim, which is a mitzvah d’orayta.The Chatam Sofer said in Yoreh Deah 234 that ‘to be happy on Purim’ is a mitzva d’orayta.The other mitzvoth like reading the megilla etc are de rabbanan. But essentially, ‘simcha’ – happiness – is d’orayta.

“On a day of your happiness and on your festivals, and on your new moons, you shall sound the trumpets over your burnt-offerings and over your feast and peace-offerings; and they shall be a remembrance for you before your God; I am Hashem you God.”[1]

This is said in Parshat Ba’alotecha, we say this after Tisha B’av, “you shall sound the trumpets”,which is a mitzvah on every chag.

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THERE WAS NEVER A MIRACLE LIKE PURIM

Purim was the biggest miracle of all the miracles. There never was a miracle like this! Even when Moshiach comes, there won’t be a miracle like this, that for three days they hung up the enemies of the Jews.

And now us – 80 years ago, there was the worst disaster for Am Yisrael, of all time i.e. The Shoah. Hitler, may his name be erased ruled for 12 years, from 1933 to 1945, until erev L’ag B’omer.

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RASHBI STOPPED THE WAR

Rav Zilberman was a Boyaner chassid, so it seems. He did the lighting on the roof of the Tzion at Rashbi. The lighting on the roof in Meron only belonged to the Boyaners. The Ruzhiner appointed the Admor of Boyan and that’s the way it was from generation to generation, that they did the lighting.

That year, which was 5705 (1945) he Rav Zilberman said now we are waiting to do the lighting until the moon shines. He found an excuse. They said, what’s with the shining of the moon?! The shining of the moon will only be at 10.05pm! Only at 10pm – that’s already on the 18th!

Already on the night of the 18th… Everyone was exploding. They always Light immediately after shkeya (twilight). Ten minutes after shkeya they do the lighting. And he’s already waiting three hours! He said: I’m waiting for the moon to shine. They didn’t understand what he was saying. The moon will shine at 10.05pm.

At ten minutes to ten, the newsflash arrived that the same enemy of the Jews Hitler, may his name be erased, a gilgul of Haman, had killed himself. All of this happened on erev L’ag B’omer, in the merit of Rashbi. Therefore, we need to go to Rashbi every L’ag B’omer. He stopped the war.

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EVERY FESTIVAL WILL BE CANCELLED EXCEPT PURIM

The whole matter is that we are now standing before the greatest mitzvah. All the festivals in the future will be cancelled, apart from the days of Purim. So, there’s a kooshia what, that means there’s no Pesach?! There won’t be Rosh Hashana?! There won’t be Shavuot?! Rather, the meaning is that the light of Purim will shine.

Now, we don’t see the light of Purim, Because on Purim, the light of truth is revealed. Purim is the day when everyone is able to come close to Rabbenu, to understand the point of truth, to understand where the ‘point of truth’ actually is, the real truth.

Every judge that gives over a true judgement, it’s a though he’s a partner with Hashem, in the creation of the heavens and earth! The world only stands in the merit of those who go with the real truth, because there are many different types of ‘truth.’

But the ‘real truth’ – there is only one real truth. And this is revealed on Purim – the real truth is revealed! Shekimu v’kiblu (they fulfilled and they accepted the Torah).

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ON PURIM, THEY ACCEPTED THE TORAH ANEW

The Gemara in Tractate Shabbat says that on Purim, kiblu – that they accepted the recieving of the Torah that took place on Purim. This was a thousand years, a thousand years after Matan Torah[2]. Kimu v’kiblu.

So why did the churban occur of the first Temple? If they accepted the Torah only on Purim? Kimu v’kiblu! So why was the First Temple destroyed? Why are we in galut? Why?

After all, the acceptance of the Torah was only 960 years later, 850 years after they entered Eretz Yisrael, and another 40 in the desert, and another 70 in the galut in Babylonia.

The Purim Miracle was at the end of this 70 years. This is another 110 years, so 960 years after this – only then was Purim. So Tosfot ask, why did Hashem destroy the land? After all, they still hadn’t truly accepted the Torah?!

The mountain was held over them like a barrel. Although they cried out na’seh v’nishma (we will do and we will listen), with one eye, they were already looking at the Golden Calf.

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Excerpted from Conversations 3, the Chapter on Geula.

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BTW, if you didn’t already, you can give your Machazit HaShekel to the Rav’s Kollel Hatzot here:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?mosad=7014431

Rav Berland said a person should give a minimum of 86 shekels per person, to fulfill this mitzvah.

My friend at the Kollel also reminded me of R Chaim Palagi’s segula, that whoever gives the Machazit Ha Shekel will be protected from harm all year.

Believe or don’t believe – from where I’m sitting, I am already seeing a ton of open miracles going on within Israel right now..

Baruch Hashem.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Bamidbar 10, 10.

[2] Purim occurred 960 years after Matan Torah.

[3] See Shemot 6.

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