BIBLICAL & SCIENTIFIC PROOF The Megillah of Esther by Rabbi Yaron Reuven (7 minutes)

0:10say it again. This week's parasha is the proof that the Megillat Esther is divine. Megillat Esther, if you've noticed, you're going to read B'ezrat Hashem soon, even before the study, before Purim, so you know what they're talking about. Don't show up to Purim without knowing what's going on. Please read some commentary. This is very good. ArtScroll makes very, very good books in general. They have very good commentary. So, anyway, Megillat Esther is a book that we consider divine, but it doesn't say Hashem's name in it. It's not going to be divine, and it doesn't have Hashem's name in it. So, Parashat Ki Tisa has in verse... chapter 30, verse 23. The Gemara says, where is Mordechai in the Torah? Where is Mordechai mentioned in the Torah? Because you said that everything is in the Torah. The Gemara already talks about it. Okay, there's Megillat Esther. Where is Mordechai in the Torah? The Gemara answers, mor dror.

1:37Mor dror means pure myrrh. It's one of the spices that we use for the Mishkan. One of the spices that Moshe was commanded to make for the anointing oil, not the burning oil. The anointing oil to make someone a Kohen. or to make someone a king, and so on. So, this is one of the spices that Hashem specifically told them to use. Pure myrrh. Mor dror. Okay. As all of you heard before, there's something called codes, Torah codes. Right? Torah codes, even though we discovered, in essence, or understood how to figure them out in the last generation, the Gemara is already telling you that they knew about it already 2,000 years ago. With the Nazis. Right, with the Nazis, with Rambam, with the Holocaust, all types of codes, Torah codes where you take, you look for a specific word, let's say you look for Hitler, you want to find Hitler, so the computer program will look for the word Hitler by using a formula where it's separating each one of the letters by a common number. So, for example, if it's in English, it's not in English, it's in Hebrew,

3:04But just to give you an example so you understand. H, and then let's say seven letters. I, seven letters. T, seven letters. It has to be a common space. Same space. It can't be H, seven letters. I, 87 letters. T, 13 letters. That's not a formula. That's just, you're just making stuff up. So it has to be an equal mathematical skip between each letter. So you see that there is a design behind it. What do we find in this verse, chapter 30, verse 23? In the word "mor dror," in pure "mor dror" that the Gemara mentions. "Mor dror," it's two words, "mor dror." First letter is Mem. If you count 12,196 letters. You get to Reish. You count another 12,196 letters. You get to Dalet, and you spell Mordechai. Now, I just told you some of the best codes. It's 7 letters. 49 letters. Not 12,196. It sounds like you're creating something. It's a little far. It's not like...

4:33Hitler code. It's not like Rambam code. It's not like these other ones. They have only seven skips, 49 skips, small. So you see that it's on the same page even. 12,196 letters. It's different chapters, b'chol. What's this 12,196? Okay, you're creative, nice. Okay, it happens to be men. What's the big deal? What's the amazing thing about this? Now, obviously, you know the Torah was written 3,300 years ago, over 3,300 years ago. The Megillat Esther is well over a thousand years later. Right? So at the time we had the Torah, Megillat Esther did not exist. Right? Megillat Esther, how many letters does it have? Total Megillat Esther has exactly 12,196 letters. exactly the number of skips between each letter of the word Mordechai in the Torah. And the same exact thing is for Esther. Esther, Megillat Esther. Esther, also you find it in the Torah, 12,196 letters. Esther is in the parasha, it says, "Haster aster panay," Hashem's hiding His face, He's hiding from us. 12,196.

5:58Not only did Hashem already know about the Torah and Mordechai, He knew exactly how many words you're going to put in it. But He's going to hide. He's going to hide in plain sight. You just have to know how to do it. The Gemara already knew. The people of the Gemara, the sages of the Gemara, that everybody doesn't understand, think just a local rabbi from Chabad is not like Rabbi Akiva. You know, not to disrespect Chabad, I'm just saying, they think a person from Chabad today is not like Rabbi Akiva. any rabbi today is not like Rabbi Akiva. All the rabbis today together are not like Rabbi Akiva. So, the people of the Gemara, people say, "Nah, some rabbis wrote it." They already told you, "Listen, we already know Torah codes. You're going to find it by looking at these specific words. That's where you're going to find a Torah code for Mordechai. That's where you're going to find: any rabbi today is not like Rabbi Akiva. All the rabbis today together are not like Rabbi Akiva. So, the people of the Gemara, people say, 'Nah, some rabbis wrote it.' They already told you, 'Listen, we already know Torah codes. You're going to find it by looking at these specific words. That's where you're going to find a Torah code for Mordechai. That's where you're going to find.'" Mordechai, who lived over a thousand years after the Torah was written, 1500 years later even, after the Torah was written, that's where you're going to find it. You see, the Torah has things that are beyond, beyond something that a human being could have ever written.