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MaShiach Secret Inside Purim Megillah POWERFUL (13 Min)

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1:24Second thing is, is that we remain separated; if you mix oil with water, the oil will always separate itself from the water, just like a Jew is supposed to. A Jew is not supposed to act like the goyim, not because he's racist, not because he doesn't like the goyim. It has nothing to do with that. It's because the goy has a certain role in the world, and the Jew has a certain role in the world, and... Simple as it gets, it has nothing to do with racism; racism is based on mankind. Racism is based on your opinion. My opinions, which are flawed. Why? Because our opinions change every week. Last week, you liked blue; this week, you like black. Next week, you're going to like red, and every week you're going to change your opinion. I Last week you like steak, next week you're a vegetarian, and the week after that, you only eat a leaf. Shema, people's opinions change all the time. Racism is based on opinion. What's your opinion of a certain race? Last week, he liked the Indian people; this week, he doesn't like the Egyptian ones; and this week, he doesn't like the Yemenite, the Ashkenazi, or the Sephardi. It's all foolishness. It's mankind's opinion.

2:41as a Jew. If they're already Jewish, then you're encouraged just by your behavior. You're encouraging them to stay connected to Hashem. If they're not Jewish, perhaps you're encouraging them to want to become Jewish and convert. But if you act like a goy, you have a problem. Why do you have a problem? Hashem says you not only are not serving your purpose. as a Jew, if they're already Jewish, then you're encouraged just by your behavior. You're encouraging them to stay connected to Hashem. If they're not Jewish, perhaps you're encouraging them to want to become Jewish and convert. But if you act like a goy, you have a problem. Why do you have a problem? Hashem says you are not only not serving your purpose and... You're serving the opposite of your purpose. Your purpose is to be a light to the nations. If you're not serving your purpose, then you accomplish nothing. You become like a little golem in the middle of nowhere, doing nothing. You only care about yourself. You're isolated in a room, not affecting anyone. You don't talk to anyone, and no one knows you exist. That's like a golem.

4:01But when you go against Hashem, you violate Shabbat, you violate all the rules of the Torah, and nonetheless, you start befriending all of the goyim. You want to go to the political parties, you want to spend a lot of time talking about politics, who's the president, who's the vice president, who's the treasury secretary, who's not. You want to talk about all those things instead of Divrei Torah? Hashem says you're not only not serving your purpose and being a light to the nations, you're doing the opposite. You're mixing with the goyim, and that creates such a problem. What kind of problem? If I told you it's such a problem that it could create a Holocaust, would you believe me? Well, it almost did. The story before the story was exactly that, before Achashverosh took power.

5:02Cyrus was a king, and he decided, you know what? Let me be the leader that the prophet Yeshayahu talked about 200 years before and build a Beit HaMikdash, even though he was a non-Jew. Let me be the tool. It actually said his name in the Nevi'im 200 years before he did. He decided, let's launch, let's start, and build a Beit HaMikdash. So Amir said, "I'm gonna build a Beit HaMikdash." What do you think if somebody said right now, "Listen guys, Mashiach is here. The first Beit HaMikdash was destroyed. There's a Nevuah, a prophecy, that there's gonna be a second Beit HaMikdash. Okay, we're gonna build it. We're starting now." Which means to us that Mashiach has arrived. Let's go. What do you think? All of Am Yisrael should be getting onto planes—JetBlue, this airline, that airline—every flight heading to Eretz Yisrael. Why? Because she was here. We've been waiting for 2,000 years. The reality was people didn't want to go.

6:10What do you mean they didn't want to go? Out of millions of Jews around the world who heard the news that they're building the Beit HaMikdash, only 42,000 went to Eretz Yisrael. Why do the rest of them like being among the non-Jews? They like their life. They liked eating pizza in Italy; they like to eat Chinese food in China. They like talking politics at the White House. They liked it. They don't want to change. They want to stay in Egypt. What's the problem? Mashiach is here, though. That's his problem. I think that if, in my opinion, if the Mashiach arrived today, I think we wouldn't be too different, which is one of the reasons why we're obligated to learn Megillat Esther every year. It's not because the story changed; it's because we haven't learned it enough. If we did, Mashiach would actually already be here, in a good way.

7:13So now 42,000 people show up. To prove the point further, Achashverosh takes leadership and stops the building of the Beit Hamikdash. Instead, he decides to have a celebration because the Beit Hamikdash is not being built. Because it was a prophecy, they knew toward the geulah (redemption) from the Torah. They weren't like today's goyim who don't know anything, or sometimes the Jews today either. They knew Torah. They said, "Listen, our prophet Yeshayahu (Isaiah) said it's going to be a churban (destruction) after seven years according to his calculations." Seven years had passed, even though, technically, it was only 62 years and... He calculated seven years. Okay, the Beit HaMikdash was not built. Why did I stop it? He said, "I stopped it, but it doesn't mean it was built. So we should celebrate. That means that Hashem is with me. If He is with me, then I have nothing to worry about. Let's celebrate, and in fact, let me invite a bunch of Jews to the party." Do you think that a bunch of Jews are going to show up to a party held by Hitler? No, right, but they did over here. How many of them? A bunch of them. Who? The rabbis.

8:27Mordechai is screaming at the door. No, no, it's Hitler. It's Hitler and his brother and his sister. He hates you. He's celebrating that the Beit HaMikdash was not built. Okay, listen, to each their own. We have to be nice. You know, we live in their country. We have to respect the law; we live in America. What if he's the president? He's the president, so what? And... it's the rule. What do you mean? So it's against the Torah, you imbecile. It's against the Gemara. Listen, Hashem understands — if He didn't understand, He wouldn't make it happen. They start rationalizing, rationalizing their sins like people rationalize the behavior of the yetzer hara since then. I... people knew as much about the Torah as they know about the economy, or they know about the White House and who's the President and who's not, or they know about sports and who gets what salary and who doesn't get a salary, Mashiach would be here, and everybody would be tzaddikim. The problem is we're spending too much time being like the goyim, like we did on Purim 2,500 years ago. Many of them showed up, and because they showed up...

9:41said, "Listen, we have to be nice. We are living here and look how nice they are to us. They even served us kosher wine. Look, the White House is serving kosher food. Now, obviously, they're welcoming us. They like us. Why were they serving kosher food? What's the problem? Did they welcome us? No." The White House back then also served kosher food and then came out with what? With the clothing that we learn about in this parashah of the Kohen Gadol. Celebrating, look, the Beit HaMikdash is not being built. Why? I stopped it. I'm wearing the clothes of the Kohen Gadol to show you it's finished. Just become goyim. Give it up. Give it up. And what we do as fools, and I say we because it was us. It wasn't some stranger that lived 2,000 years ago. It's us. That's why we're still here. What do we do? Say, okay, l'chaim. L'chaim. Achashverosh. L'chaim. Haman. L'chaim. Hashem says, okay, you want to say l'chaim for not building the Beit HaMikdash? I'll give you l'chaim.

11:05when we act like goyim and we play baseball, football, basketball, sports, focus on the White House, news, stock market, and all the stuff that we're not supposed to be doing, we bring a churban. That's what this whole holiday is about. Now, it also connects to this parasha, where Hashem says you want to be saved from this churban, you want to be saved in the days of Mashiach that are going to be full of confusion. You're not going to know who's religious and who's not, and... Be a Shemen Zayit Zach. Not just a Shemen Zayit. Don't just be a Jew because your mom's a Jew. Don't just be a Jew because your grandfather's a rabbi. Be a Jew because you're clear. Clear of what? Clear of all of the aveirot. Clear of all the Amalek that's in our mind that taints us, to go and be a goy. Be clear of all those things. Be a clean, kosher oil. Not a touch of Avodah Zarah. Not on your wig and not in your behavior. Not on your money and not in your business. Shemen Zayit Zach. Don't just be a Shemen. There's plenty of Shemen in the world. There's 8,000 of them. 8 billion of them. Don't be Shemen Zayit. There's 20 million of them. Be Shemen Zayit Zach. Shemen Zayit Zach.

12:32Certainly. Here is your corrected text: Be'ezrat Hashem, you'll have a blessing.

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