Transcribed by Anna Beller: The Rambam says that because there is Halacha when Moshiach comes we’ll have the 5 Books of Moses and the Book of Esther. Because you can’t have the 5 books of Moses without Esther, you have no oral law, you have nothing without Esther!

The Rambam Hilchot Megila, perek beit Halacha yud bet- all the books of the prophets and scriptures will be cancelled during the Messianic era except for the Book of Esther, she will exist in the same level as the 5 books of Torah…

And that the law of Torah she be al peh. And even though people’s memory of all their suffering will go away, it says in the verse, all the suffering will be forgotten but the days of Purim will not. And by the way this is the only holiday that has two days. If you live in a regular city its on the 14^th of Adar,  but if you live in a city where there was a wall when Joshua entered the land of Israel hen you keep it on the 15^th. Why should we keep two separate days for a holiday? Unless there was a wall at a time of Joshua, Shushan had no wall, and there was no Shushan when Joshua went in.

Doesn’t that mean your treating Jews differently? Because you experience the miracle on one day and another experiences it on another? Yes exactly! Because you experience it one way and another an other way, you must have 2 separate holidays. Why Joshua? because he was the first one to fight Amalek successfully. Go through mesechet megilah you find the pride of everyone who speaks is Yehoshua.

Why Joshua? Why walls? What do they have to do with it? Barriers.

Where else do you have laws with walls? A city that had a wall at the time of Joshua, if you sell the property there are laws with redeeming the land differently than cities after Yehoshua. What do the laws with the walls have to do with this? We obviously want to be in Israel but where ever we live we are able to incorporate the most beautiful parts from where we live into our Judaism. The Sephardim are different and have Spanish influences into their culture. German Jews are different, and the beauty of them is very Germanic. The customs are different by the cultures, and its good because how else do you evolve. And different languages are different perspectives on the world. The only time that the Torah is considered explained well, According to Rashi was when Moshe wrote it in 70 languages. What else does the word Beear mean? Water. When else do we have it? With Moshe with the rock when it turns into a well. Moshe’s failure was at a beear, because he wasn’t open to creativity at that point.

We want people to experience great creativity, and then the fear of losing God through your creativity, so that one can appreciate halacha. That’s all that halacha is, halacha is a way to anchor yourself in your search for insights. Because there is no one law that you can ever finish. There’s so much literature on each law you can never finish. So to achieve insights, the purpose of law is to anchor you. You have insights and what are you going to do with it. So you learn it and how to translate it into action? The point of halacha is the action but it’s a completely different experience of halacha. Halacha is a way to translate everything that is a constant system that feeds itself.

First you have to understand and recognize that God wants you to be a human being, that’s the whole idea. You need to make a choice to live, Torah is a source of life. God says live even if you have to break the Torah to live, live. God wants you to live.

Mordechai was never accepted by all the Jews, they were worried about him they were scared. They didn’t like Esther either, she forced herself. What other religion would say that a woman slept with a non-Jewish man they had a boy and that boy built a temple. And the temple they named an element called Shushan, so that everyone knew the story, that the king that allowed it to be built. That’s something I would hide.

The whole idea is to have input from an outsider. People don’t talk about this because it terrifies them.

God says over and over, the only thing He cares is if you make a choice. The first thing you need to do is learn to choose. The point of the Torah is to teach you have to choose. Before you learn Torah you must become someone who knows how to make a choice. Committing yourself to wanting to make real and important choices, Elijah the prophet says you can’t stand on two branches serving God and serving Baal, you have to choose one. He just wants them to make a decision. Because those who make choices you’ll grow and that’s the most important thing. You must articulate your choices for it to have an unbelievable difference. Say it’s more important for me to stay up at 1 o’clock in the morning and learn megilath Esther than it is for me to get more sleep.

Purim is about making yourself a vessel, a vessel able to use the Torah. You have to be prepared for the Torah to come inside you and work well. When I read a novel it is more important for me to read this novel than it is for me to read the sefer. And I’ll end up reading the sefer. But when I really want to read the novel, I don’t say it.

You have to love what you do. Just like Esther had to “love” sleeping with Achashveirosh.

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