Daily Chidush: On, What Does Noah, Tower Babel, Cyrus And Esther Teach Us Today About HaShem.

0:00Hello everyone, how are you? Hope you had a phenomenal Shabbat and Be'ezrat Hashem you'll have a very Shavua Tov. We'll start off the week talking about some of the things we're going to see this week. We're going to see, Be'ezrat Hashem, Megillat Esther. Purim is a very big holiday. Chazal says that when the Mashiach comes, all the holidays will be canceled except Purim and Chanukah. Because those are the rabbinical holidays, and Hashem does not want to offend the rabbis. That's how much He loves the rabbis. But one thing we have to learn from Purim is that there's something very interesting about the holiday, very interesting about the story itself that we've heard before many, many times, but maybe didn't pay attention. Before Achashverosh took over, And took over, in essence, the entire world—127 countries, as it says in Megillat Esther. Before him, there was Koresh (Cyrus). Cyrus took over and was, in essence, the king of the world. Cyrus actually decreed that Am Yisrael could start building the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, but only 42,000.

1:19Jews actually joined; only 42,000 Jews went up to Yerushalayim and started building the Beit HaMikdash, whereas millions and millions of them did not join. Millions and millions did not believe that the prophecy was really coming true. They didn't believe that the promise that Hashem gave the prophet Yirmiyahu nearly 70 years before was coming true and just didn't believe it was time. They didn't believe. And they were right, because technically, once Achashverosh came in, he hated Jews, unlike what Megillat Esther says; sometimes people only hear the nice parts of the story. The background part of the story is that Achashverosh was actually a bigger anti-Semite than Haman himself. And the first thing, the first day on the job that Achashverosh had, the first thing he did was cancel the continuation of the building of the Beit HaMikdash.

2:20One thing that we notice, if we rewind it all the way back to Noach, when Hashem destroyed the world, the people committed many, many sins. One of them we learned this past week about wasting seed, stealing, and pretty much every sin that you can imagine, but the final sin that they committed, which led Hashem to the point of destroying the entire world, was wasting seed. the war that they had in general in the generation of Noach was between each other. If you fast-forward another 350 years approximately, you arrive at the generation of the Tower of Bavel. Instead of fighting each other, the people of the world decided to build a tower that could reach the sky and fight Hashem. They figured that Hashem had created the world 1,646 years before, and... Therefore, based on their own logic, they decided that maybe Hashem decides to destroy the world every 1,646 years. So, we're going to build a tower high enough to go fight Him before the next 1,650 years pass. Now, if you think about it, this is a much worse sin than the people of Noach.

3:45Instead of fighting each other, they're fighting G-d Himself. As ridiculous as it sounds, they're fighting G-d, and in essence, it's as if they're trying to fight Him. So why didn't Hashem destroy all of them? Why was the punishment only destroying the tower and changing their languages, and in essence, changing the world language from being only Hebrew to 70 different languages? So here we learn also, by the way, that there was only one language for the first 1,650 years. Why didn't He destroy them like He did with the generation of Noach? For the very same reason of why we're going to learn this week the first time that Koresh decreed to build a Beit HaMikdash, it didn't work. But later on, it did work. Later on, after Megillat Esther is completed,

4:45and the son of Esther, Darius, decrees to build the Beit HaMikdash, it does work. The difference between the two times is that in Noah and with Cyrus, there was no unity. Everybody was out for themselves. Whereas in the times of the Tower of Babel and in the times of Darius, we had unity. People had achdut. held on to each other, they helped each other. So even at an amazing time, an amazing sin of fighting against Hashem with the Tower of Babel, Hashem said, "You know what? Even though they're very, very wicked and I should destroy them, their unity, their achdut is so strong. I don't want to break it up. Let them fight Me. They can't fight Me, but let them think that they can."

5:46Still, they have unity between them, they have love amongst them, let them stay. The generation of Noach, no love amongst them, they were stealing from each other, they were doing all types of sins, there's no unity between them, they can't unite to Me. If they can't love each other, they can never love Me. Worthy of destruction. In the time of Cyrus, only 42,000 believers, only 42,000 people out of millions and millions of Jews believed that this was the time. There's no unity. There's no love. There's no Beit HaMikdash. In the time of Darius, everybody joined. If there's unity, even if you aren't exactly perfect, I'll still give you the next Beit HaMikdash. So we see that in Hashem's eyes, He says that if you can't love each other, there's no way you're going to ever love Me. And you can't tell me you love me if you don't love each other, because we are all His creations. You can't say you love Abba if you don't love His children. B'ezrat Hashem, we learned a lot more about Megillat Yisrael this week. We learned a lot more about the parasha and a lot of other things. And this week helps us unite, helps us come together, help each other in every way that we can, help each other spread Torah, help each other get closer to Hashem, and b'ezrat Hashem, bring a lot more blessing to the world. Shavua tov.