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Toras Avigdor — the story of purim

Выпуск: Toras Avigdor — the story of purim. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. Of course, the wonderful insights he sprinkles throughout his narrative give us a deeper understanding of the tale being told and the lessons it is meant to convey but i n addition, one can sense how with his excellent grasp of t he details, his profound emunah, and his inimitable koach hatziur, he is practically traveling back in time and reliving the story as he tells it. Mordechai and Esther d isseminated the megillah in the form of a royal letter (see 9 :29), in order to 1) gain the universal participation of the Jews in the observance of Purim, and 2) to impress the gentiles with the lesson of what happens to Am Yisroel’s enemies. Y ou’ll have to wrench your mind out of all the c omparisons that mankind makes, of all calculations, all proportions, all frames of reference because this is entirely o pposed to everything that not only the world has been thinking, but to what we have been thinking. Because later, when Haman (Memuchan) gained from the king another decree, that on a certain day a ll the Jews of the empire should be destroyed, and that t he letters should be sent out in all the languages, so the letters were posted on the walls and the people again were standing there and looking at the letters and said “another lunacy.” “It’s just a joke,” they said. A nd with that introduction we can begin to read the Megillah and understand it from a true Torah perspective— t he perspective that we are the history of the world and t hat Hakadosh Baruch Hu is manipulating everything, all world events, for amo Yisroel. ‘ I shall hide (astir) My face on that day’ (Dvarim 31:18).” Whereas in the earlier generations Hashem openly “made His c ountenance shine” (Bamidbar 6:25) upon His people, now His miracles were concealed in the wrappings of seemingly n atural causes. As soon as they knew where the wind was blowing, they would have gotten busy and sharpened their axes and sharpened their knives, and the next day – they wouldn’t have waited – the next day they would have gotten busy, they would have done the job! Because this is n ot merely a commentary on Megillas Esther but a telling o f the story of Purim, some of R’ Miller’s valuable thoughts on the Megillah were left out of this particular work so that the sto

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Toras Avigdor

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1 марта 2026 г.

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Темы: family_education