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Va’Nahafoch Hu (ונהפוך הוא) The Modern-Day Haman Is Dead

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Va’Nahafoch Hu (ונהפוך הוא) The Modern-Day Haman Is Dead

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5 minutes a Day on the Parsha with Yiddy KleinVa’Nahafoch Hu (ונהפוך הוא) The Modern-Day Haman Is Dead. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

This Torah class is brought to you by Torahanytime.com Why is this Yant of Cold Purim? So the Apostle says, I'll cane currently Yama Mo'eilah Purim, al-Shema Pur. Purim is named after the Pur, the lottery that Haman cast. But why did Haman make a garland in the first place? It's because he sought an auspicious date for his planned destruction of the Jewish people. And by casting lots, he attempted to secure a day over and shore the success of his evil plot. But the question is, the garland symbolized one of the darkest moments in Jewish history, Haman's scheme, to annihilate us. If so, shouldn't this Yant of be cold, when Hapahul, or in the Tsahayn, shouldn't it commemorate our salvation rather than the very threat to our existence? So why name this Yant of after the garland? And the answer lies in the deeper meaning of a garland. When Hashem first revealed himself to Avrama Vinu, he commanded him, Lachlachah.

Leave your land. And Hashem promised him, the Eschalagoygadl, the Verechachah, the Garlashomechah. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you, and I will make your name great. Hashem chose Avram to be the patriarch of Kha'izra. In fact, he is called Avhamangoyin, a father of many nations. But from all the people in the world, why did Hashem choose Avram specifically? The Toyota doesn't give us any explicit reason. It simply says Avrama Havi. Avrama I beloved. No explanation is provided. Why is that? Because Hashem's choice been based on Avram's righteousness, or his kindness, or his spiritual greatness, then in later generations, if his descendants would falter or sin, could have been passively been replaced by a different nation, Kha'izra. So instead, Hashem chose Avram without stating a reason. Simply out of love, an unconditional bond, a covenant, not dependent on merit,

a relationship rooted in divine will. Chazal say, that when Hashem created the world, he already had Kha'izra in mind. The mentor says, that beracious is comprised of two words, the shvil racious, for the sake of racious, for the sake of Israel, who are called racious. We were chosen before we performed the single mitzvah. Before we even existed, simply because it was Hashem's will. The bin-e-sahzhar applies this same reason to Perum. Haman believed that by casting lots, he was determining our destruction. But in reality, the act of casting a Gauril, awaken something infinitely deeper. The truth that Hashem's choice of Kha'izra transcends logic. A Gauril represents a decision beyond reason. So even if we had sinned, even if we were undeserving, Hashem's love for us remained absolute.

After the McGillia reading on Perum night, we declared, that Haman hashava laym lakhalaisam, Haman sought to destroy them, the nathal pura al-rashe, but his lath fell upon his own head. The very mechanism, Haman used to seal our fate, became the instrument of his own downfall. And this is why this young dev is called Perum, because the Gauril itself revealed the secret of our eternity. The poor exposed what had always been true. Our bond with Hashem is not transactional. It is not conditional. It is not subject to spiritual stock markets that rise and fall. It is absolute. And this is why on Perum, we celebrate Adalayada, beyond knowledge, beyond calculation, beyond logic. We connect to Hashem the same way he connects to us, not because it makes sense, not because we earned it, but because we belonged to him. In our generation,

there arose a modern day Haman. The regime in Iran openly declared its desire to wipe Israel off the map and eliminate the Jewish people, Hashashallah. They believed history could be manipulated, that hatred could determine destiny, that threats and weapons could operate an eternal nation. But once again, for the hapuhu, those who plotted our destruction were themselves destroyed in the most extraordinary way. Those who sought our annihilation were themselves eliminated. In a striking turn of events, their own people turned against them, and they rejoiced when they realized that their oppressors were killed. History has taught us that this pattern happens again and again. Empires rise and fall. Tyrants roar and disappear. Haman's come and go. But the goryral remains. Because the same divine choice that selected Abramovino without calculation, without conditions, without logic,

still sustains us today. Purim is not merely the story of survival. It is the revelation that our existence is rooted in something untouchable. A love that cannot be revoked. A covenant that cannot expire. A bond that no enemy can sever. And that is why it's called Purim. Because what appeared to be a lottery of destruction was in truth the deepest demonstration of Hashem's own wavering love of the Jewish people. A love beyond reason. Beyond merit. Beyond history itself. And now we know. Have a wonderful day. You've just experienced another Torah class. Brought to you by Torahanytime.com. You've just experienced another Torah class. Brought to you by Torahanytime.com. Brought to you by Torahanytime.com.

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