Women's Purim Class
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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This women's class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Tzav, 12 Adar II, 5779, March 19, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY
Women's Purim Class
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Usher -4 years ago
Your'e the best speaker ever heard!
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Cheskel -5 years ago
I always enjoy your classes immensely. Your passion and insights, not to mention your command of the English language, is really impressive. Keep up the good work.
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Anonymous -11 months ago
ESTHER BITTUL
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Shmuel -5 years ago
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Liba -5 years ago
Wow
There are no words to describe what the shiurim do for us... they’ve brought our life to the next level.
Additionally, a separate and enormous thank you for this week’s shiur about Esther's life, and last week’s about entering the king via sin.
My Purim took on a completely different meaning as did the entire Megilla, which came alive with Rabbi Jacobson’s words...
New worlds of wisdom,light and depth were opened up to us.
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Rachele -5 years ago
Purim becomes part of our life as soon as we are old enough to wear a costume.
and when we can remain quiet we get to go to Shul with our beautifully illustrated and colorful Megillah and gregger. Those infantile picture we saw as kids remain inculcated in our minds.
We often don't revisit infantile story, concepts, ideas we were fed in kindergarten or even school, we can remain with them for the remainder of our lives.....
Especially the story of Purim, can remain for some of us a distant fairy tale that we don’t give much thought about and doesn't provoke much in us, other than the stress of preparing Shlach mones, meals with people having had one or two too many drinks......
But today you made Ester the heroine, so alive, so human, so relevant. We were able to experience the story from a place of maturity and depth that a lot of us never had the opportunity or were never were expose to. To realize the magnitude of the story, the richness of every detail.
how all this is so often very relevant to our own struggles as individual and also as a Jewish nation, surrounded by 70 wolfs.
Purim, is perhaps the opportunity to be able to draw emotional and spiritual strength from their story and bring it into our own individual “Purim” life story. It allows us to have a peek into the works of the Divine. So to say the Megillah opens up the doors for us to view the workings of the Universe from meachoirai hapardes. So to say God took us back stage. We get to experience the story on 2 levels. Step by step with all the struggles that each moment brought in everybody’s life. And that was different for Ester than it was for Mordechai and the Jews. At the same time we get to experience and view God’s plan, how even while the Jews were sinning in Achashverus palace God was preparing redemption......and kind of watch from above, birds eye view how all the seams are being sewn into a story of redemption and salvation....
There was a new era now, the end of nevius. A different energy was being born, a much more hidden and not revealed Godliness.
It’s perhaps why this is such a pivotal moment. A moment where God takes us backstage to teach us, show us that He is the same caring God of Har Sinai. Purim is teaching us how to interpret Golus.
In the end the Jews understood that it was kiblu vekimu the same as when all was revealed at Har Sinai. We are never orphaned from God. It’s just in different times there is different Divine workings.
This kind of hester relationship with God was new then for the Jews in Persia, but it’s a reminder for us that God is there with us still as He was with us at Sinai. Kimu vekiblu.....And to realize when we struggle in life there is always an other birds eye reality that we don’t know or can’t see.....
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Daniella -5 years ago
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Sarah -5 years ago
Uch, today's shiur was so incredible. I can't even begin to say in words how wonderful it was. I was afraid it wouldn't be live streamed because neither the Chasidus or Gemarrah classes were this morning. And when I saw it come on, I smiled.
I never knew so much about Purim, ever! And I think yto myself, how many other Jews don't either. I never knew. I never knew.
And then this morning's shiur added even more layers to what I am learning.
Thank you so much Rabbi YY.
When I heard the part about G-d not being in the Megillah, but how HE really was, and then I heard you say that the acronyms in the Megillah actually do contain HIS name. I remembered something I posted last year in my FB Group. I think I've attached it here. I don't know, but I think this is the verse you were talking about this morning.
Anyway, I continue to be amazed and am so proud to be Jewish. Judasim is beautiful. Our heirtage is amazing. And I thank you over and over again for inspiring me so much.
Have a wonderful Purim, a meaningful fast and great health and lots of love.
Thank you!
Esther 5:4
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Usher -4 years ago
wowow very good
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