How The Jews Were Saved From Haman's Lottery on Purim

0:02Now, the interesting thing is that Haman, for a long time once he got the power, was doing what's called a lottery, and in Persian, it's called "pur pur." From there, the name Purim comes. was doing a lottery of what day to annihilate the Jewish people, and the Medrash again says that this rasha, Haman, every day would do a new lottery. But one of the malachim would interfere with it day after day, so he didn't come up with an actual day to annihilate the Jewish people. So the Midrash Uh, and also in Esther Rabbah, it says that when Haman was casting these lots from day to day, the Master of the Universe was approached constantly by the different angels. Why? Because when Haman initially decided to cast lots on Sunday,

1:26The angel for Sunday came to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and said, "Master of the Universe, on the first day, You created the heaven and the earth. You gave the Jewish people Your covenant of circumcision and the Torah, and said, 'If not for My covenant day and night, I would not have set the laws of heaven and earth.' So before You destroy the Jewish people, destroy heaven and earth then." Meaning, you can't pick me to be the day that you destroy the Jewish people. Look how much good you did on my day. You created the world. You created the heaven and the earth. You gave the Torah. You did the mitzvah of circumcision. All this stuff happened on my day. Why should I be the day that you destroy the Jews? If you're already going to destroy the Jews, destroy what you did before that was good. Destroy the heaven and the earth. Okay, so... Lot was rejected; Haman was not allowed to destroy Israel on Yom Rishon. On the next lot, he got Monday, which is Yom Sheni, the second day of the week. So the angel of Monday came to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and said, "On the second day, You separated the upper waters from the lower waters, and the Jewish people were separated from the nations of the world and..."

2:45And You told them in the Torah, "I separated you from the nations to be Mine," as it says in Vayikra, chapter 20, verse 26. So before You destroy the Jewish people, turn over the upper and the lower waters. Meaning, why are you going to destroy the Jewish people on my day? Look at how much good you did on this day! You split the ocean into twelve parts, you separated the Jewish people from the nations, you made them your own people. You have done so many good things; you separated the waters, the upper heavens from the lower waters. If you're going to destroy the Jews on this day, then go back all the way to the beginning. Bring back the upper waters and the lower waters together. Destroy the world, in so many words. Okay, so Monday was not a day that he was allowed. So, Tuesday. Yom Shelishi. On the third day, the angel of the third day comes to us and he says, "You created plant life from which the Jewish people separate their ma'aser, their tithes, and take the lulav and etrog on the Sukkot festival. If the Jewish people don't exist, how will plant life exist?"

4:00Plan life was created on my day, and who are the ones that sanctify the plants? Only the Jewish people. They are the ones that use it for Your mitzvot of Sukkot. If no one is going to fulfill this mitzvah, there's no point for plants. There's no point for plants, and it’s not—what’s the whole world for? So don't destroy the Jewish people on my day, because it doesn't make any sense. Wednesday came to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and said, "HaKadosh Baruch Hu, on the fourth day, You created the sun, the moon, and the stars, to which Your children are compared. If the Jewish people don't exist, how will the heavenly bodies exist?" But we created all these heavenly bodies. And for what reason did Hashem create them? No, the Torah clearly says that Hashem created the moon and the sun specifically for timing. Why timing? So the Jewish people know exactly when to fulfill their mitzvot. We're not like other religions that perform their religious obligations on random days. Our mitzvot are performed at specifically designated times, like Pesach, which will always be during the spring.

5:15no question why or how we know what the spring is. We have the sun, the moon, we have the timing, we have a new month, and so on and so forth. It goes into a whole precise calculation that's more precise than what NASA was able to find over 3,000 years later, regarding the exact rotations of the moon, how long it takes, what's the minimum, what's the maximum, and so on and so forth. So, The Wednesday came to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and said, no, it's not fair that you're going to destroy the Jewish people unless you're going to destroy the sun and the moon. Thursday came to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and said, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, on the fifth day You created the birds and the cattle, of which You commanded that sacrifices be made, be offered to reconcile You with mankind. If the Jewish people cease to exist, who will offer sacrifices to You? Hello, you created all these animals for what? So they can offer you sacrifices? Even more so, Jewish people are the ones who sanctify the animals. They are the only ones who can elevate the animals as far as their nefesh. If there's a tikkun there, if there's a gilgul, a reincarnation in it, only if it's slaughtered in a kosher way is this animal rectified, or if it's used as a sacrifice. If the Jewish people don't exist, there's no purpose for animals. Go destroy all the animals then.

6:42so the next day, Friday comes, on the sixth day He says you created mankind, of which the Jewish people are the essence, as it is written in Ezekiel chapter 34, verse 31. You are man; I am your God, says that Bnei Yisrael is called "Adam," not called "Adam" meaning that the rest of the nations are not human. We're not prejudiced against the other nations, but rather, Am Yisrael is the chosen people that have a different description according to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. They're the highest level of humanity. There is man and then there's a Jew. And I'm talking about a Jew that's Shomer Torah uMitzvot. A Shomer Torah uMitzvot is higher than a natural, a regular human being. But a Jew that is not Shomer Torah uMitzvot, if he's doing it knowingly, he's lower than an animal. So that's why, technically, according to the Gemara, he's not even allowed to eat meat. Why? Because the animal is better than him.

7:54The point being is that the angel of Friday came to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and said, "You created man, and the highest level of men is the Jewish people. So before you destroy the Jews, destroy all of mankind. Then why are you going to choose me to be the day that Haman destroys all the Jews? If you want to destroy the Jews, destroy everybody." And finally, the angel of Shabbat, the daughter of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, who comes... says on Shabbat your entire creation came to completion, as it is written in the Book of Shemot (Exodus), Chapter 31, Verses 16 and 17: "The children of Israel shall keep the Shabbat, between Me and the children of Israel it is a sign forever; that in six days Hashem made heaven and earth." So before you uproot the Jews, uproot the Shabbat—kill your own daughter. Here we see why Haman's lots failed day after day because each day a different angel fought for us. Each day a different angel fought for us, and Haman cast lots after that from month to month, and then he had more success. He had more success; there was less of an argument in that case, and he eventually decided on the seventh of Adar.

9:18seventh of Adar because he figured that's the day that Moshe Rabbeinu died. He made a mistake because he didn't realize that Moshe Rabbeinu didn't just die on the seventh of Adar; he was also born on that day. So, it was a uh tzaddikim, typically the highest level of tzaddikim, live and die on the same day. I might know that Moshe Rabbeinu brought the 10 plagues upon Egypt, took the Jews out, split the sea, and brought down the Torah from heaven, but he didn't know why HaKadosh Baruch Hu chose Moshe Rabbeinu. He didn't know. What was so special about Moshe Rabbeinu? Well, it says in the book of Shemot (Exodus) 2:11, that when Moshe grew up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. So Rashi says, as soon as Moshe Rabbeinu grew up, even though he grew up in Pharaoh's house, with all the money, all the service, all the luxuries, everything, he knew he was a Jew. And he saw Am Yisrael suffering, and he could not take it. Rashi says that he saw, he put his eyes on his brothers and sisters, and he started crying hysterically for them.

10:37Chapter 1, section 27 says he saw their suffering and started crying, crying and saying to each and every single one of them, "I'd go up to every Jew, never having met them in my life, and say, 'I would die for you, I would die for you, I would die for you, I would die for you.'" He just couldn't take it; he couldn't see his brothers' suffering. "For there's nothing harder than a working day," he would tell them. He would lend his shoulders. and helped each and every single one he saw. He saw the burdens of the big on the small, of men and women, old and young. He removed his royal mantle and went and straightened out their burdens while pretending to be helping Pharaoh. And the Torah says in Shemot 3:4, Hashem saw that he had turned aside to see, and God called to him from amidst the burning bush. So here we see HaKadosh Baruch Hu chose Moshe Rabbeinu because Moshe Rabbeinu was the first one and only one in history.

12:01that put his life on the line for the sake of Am Yisrael when they were in Egypt. This is a profound statement that highlights the unique role of Moshe Rabbeinu in Jewish history. The Chachamim say in other Sefarim that if it weren't for Moshe Rabbeinu, Am Yisrael would still be in Egypt to this day, 3,300 years later. No one else was willing to do what he did. That's why Moshe Rabbeinu was chosen. Haman did not do this. Moshe Rabbeinu sacrificed himself for his brothers, and in essence, Hashem recognized this unparalleled dedication. to redeem the Jewish people despite the fact that they did not have the merit to be saved, meaning that Am Yisrael was saved really on the merit of Moshe. So now we see that there's a little bit more clarity connecting Haman to the Torah and so on. But again, when you peel the onion a little bit further, you see there's even more to the story. We must reach such a high level of Kedusha through Torah learning and good deeds that we finally realize everything comes from Hashem. The decree didn't come from Haman, and the salvation didn't come from Mordechai. Everything is from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All your problems are not caused by others. It's Hashem talking to you, trying to get your attention.