Episode#56: Instalment 5 in the Jewish Calendar Series, Purim W/Joshua Erickson

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Today I have Joshua Erickson
back on the podcast to continue

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our series, on the Jewish
calendar and holidays.

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Now if you remember Joshua and I
have had a few conversations up

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to this point.
If you haven't listened to any

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of our prior conversations, I
would strongly encourage you to

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go back and listen to those
episodes first.

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There are episodes number
fifteen, twenty seven, twenty

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eight, thirty and forty.
The reason for this is that they

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all kind of build on each other.
On this episode, we have a

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conversation about Perrine.
We talk about the biblical story

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behind the And the deeper
meanings of the story and how it

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shows us that even when we don't
think God is around.

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He's always there.
And finally, and how the holiday

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is kept today.
That's next on this episode of

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Joshua, it's good to have you

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back, man.
Yeah, really.

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Glad to be here.
Thanks for having me, so we're

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on Purim now.
That's right. /.

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Awesome.
Okay.

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Keep the back story.
What is Purim?

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Oh, okay.
So that problem is, is the Feast

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of Esther.
Also known as the Feast of

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Esther program actually is a
Hebrew word, Perrine means Lots

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as in like casting lots.
Okay.

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And so, It's called that because
of the things that happened in

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the story.
So just kind of brief overview

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of the story and we'll get into
maybe some specifics.

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But this story happens when the
kingdom of Judah, the southern

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kingdom is in captivity in
Babylon, and then, in Persia.

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And right, there's the, the
king.

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The king is a crash with a Roche
and he, he has a queen vashti,

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and she displeases him.
And he gets rid of her looks for

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a new Queen and Esther is, you
know, comes up as one of the

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possibilities.
So is this King and Israelite,

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is he Israeli?
He is, he is Persian, okay, yep.

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So you know the story probably
are already many people do but

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just to keep going here, Esther
keeps her Jewish identity secret

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and eventually she has chosen to
be Queen but there's some Some

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Intrigue on the side, there's
the bad guy in.

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The story is name is Amin or
Heyman, and he has a plan to

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destroy all the Jews because
he's been offended by Mordecai.

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Who is Esther's cousin.
And you know, the this plan that

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he has to destroy all the Jews
comes to light and Esther

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petitions the king but it's a
dangerous thing to do but cheap

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petitions the king to get the
The the the decree reversed and

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they're not able to do that but
they do come up with a solution

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and the Jews are saved and
Hallman gets killed and Mordecai

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gets exalted.
And then they have a big party

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to celebrate, you know, their
Liberation, their salvation from

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destruction.
You know, that's one of those

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stories that I feel like
probably doesn't get enough to

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run.
Right.

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Because oftentimes you hear, you
know, well you get into

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biblical.
A friend.

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You know women are quote unquote
second-class citizens.

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And here it's a woman that saves
the entire nation.

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Yeah.
She's The Queen Esther is the

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hero Mordecai as well.
They are but you know Esther has

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an enormous role to play and
yeah I think I think it doesn't

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get that much attention and
there's actually good reasons

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for that.
There's story of Esther, the

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Book of Esther is a very complex
book actually And there are a

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lot of themes woven through the
book, but one of them is hidden

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things, okay?
So it might be surprising to

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even people who have read, it
might be surprised to realize

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that the Book of Esther is the
only book in the entire Canon of

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scripture that does not mention
God, really?

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He is completely Anonymous and
hidden in the Book of Esther.

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So no one, there's no, there's
no profits, There's No Visions.

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There's no Miracles, no one even
says a prayer.

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Huh, and so that's not the only
hidden thing.

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There are other hidden things to
like like Esther's identity, she

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keeps her, she keeps herself
hidden like the plans of Holman,

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he keeps those hidden.
There is a secret plot to kill

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the king and there's all these
kind of secret things that

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eventually all come to light and
that's that's So that's one of

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the themes is, there's these
hidden things that eventually

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come to light.
And one of the ways that premium

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is celebrated is by wearing
disguises or cause doing is oh

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it's a costume party.
Nice.

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Yep.
So everyone comes dressed up and

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so that's fun, we whatever, we
celebrate it.

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We, we do that nice.
Yeah.

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So Esters in Disguise and even
gods in Disguise in, in the book

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which is another one of the kind
of Things about the story of

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Esther is this idea that God is
manifested in the lives of these

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people through coincidences
essentially that that there's no

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Miracles.
Like I said, there's no

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Miracles, there's nothing that
you could point at as a

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supernatural intervention, that
God makes in the outcome.

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And yet when you pull this, When
you look at the entire string of

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events, the the out know, the
the likelihood of having that

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series of outcomes and up in the
favor of the Jews, just makes it

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undeniable that.
Yes, God was there behind the

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scenes, so to speak, you know,
pulling strings.

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And so that's, that's kind of a
one of the take-home messages I

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guess.
Is that even if it seems like

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God's not, God's not around, if
you're not hearing God's voice,

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Ace, you're not seeing Miracles,
like he is still there.

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Pulling strings behind the
scenes and he has his his

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purposes and his timing for
revealing himself, but he's not

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in active.
He just has plans that he's

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working out.
So, so that's important thing.

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Yeah, it's a huge takeaway.
I don't know how many times I

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know in my life.
I've looked up and just been

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like, where are you?
Yeah.

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Where are you and and I suppose
that's that's the the wisdom in

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the part of the wisdom and the
book, right?

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And that it is actually book is
very wise.

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You don't see them, you don't
hear from him but he's there.

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Yeah.
Even you know I think of the One

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of the letters of Joseph Smith.
I can't remember section 120 or

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121 around there.
Yeah, was in Liberty, Jail?

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Yeah.
How long shall the Pavilion

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cover?
I can't remember the, you know,

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how long will you be hiding,
right?

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God, like where are you in?
This is Joseph, who's just has

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like this stream of saw them
right here, stream of

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miraculous, Heavenly visitations
and things being frustrated for

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this.
Moment of silence, you know, so

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there's been longer moments of
Silence here.

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There have been sure centuries
of Silence but but the story of

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Esther kind of just demonstrates
that even in those.

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So apparent moments of silence
or even centuries of Silence

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that God still orchestrating
things behind the scenes.

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So yeah.
And I think we all have that

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Dark Night of the Soul at some
point.

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All right, we're just
Everything's gone to hell and we

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can't seem to figure it out and
we all have that moment and I

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think I think when we see Heroes
like that struggle with that

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idea, I think that that can only
serve to bolster our faith,

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right?
Is that even even if our

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spiritual heroes are on
occasion, say where are you?

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God, I think I think that allows
us to have A little bit of Grace

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with ourselves.
When we look back, Shane, go,

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wow!
Maybe I didn't handle at, right,

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rather than beat ourselves up,
it gives us the opportunity to

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reflect and grow a little more.
Yeah, there's some humility

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there.
So Perrine is it is a Biblical

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holiday obviously to the Book of
Esther but it is it is one of

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those holidays that you could
appropriately call Jewish So,

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the other holidays, you know,
Passover and Tabernacles and

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Rosh, Hashanah are those are
those are actually bigger than

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Jewish.
Those are Israelite Feast, those

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are biblical view of.
Those are commanded things, but

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this was something that was
experienced by the Jews.

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So meaning those from those,
from the southern Kingdom, and I

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have to kind of make that point.
Because Esther and Mordecai, who

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are the heroes of the story.
They are not actually from the

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tribe of Judah.
De and yet in the story, they

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are called Jews.
They're actually both from The

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Tribe of Benjamin, okay?
But the story in the story, they

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are called Jews.
And that's because they're from

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the southern Kingdom of Judah.
So with this in, correct me if

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I'm wrong, it, would this be
classified?

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More is like a cultural holiday
then yeah, it is a, it is a

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cultural holiday, I would say
but it definitely has religious

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undertones overtones.
Yeah, religious.

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You know, it's much like, like,
our Thanksgiving or Independence

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Day.
Okay.

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As far as I'm concerned, those
are those are, those are

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religious holidays.
They absolutely are.

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Yeah.
So, but not, but those are

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things that are not commanded in
the scriptures necessarily.

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Now, interesting thing though
is, even though premium is not

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commanded thing.
It's not, it's not on the list

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of things in the Torah, there is
a strong hint.

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At it, so kind of like with
Hanukkah or we talked about last

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time in Leviticus 23, has the
list of all of the commanded

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feast days and also Yom Kippur,
which is not a feast day, it's a

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fast day.
So those are all listed there in

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the order that they're
celebrated.

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And then you go to Leviticus 24
and it says, keep the lamps

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burning all the time.
So, it's like there's kind of

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this hint at Hanukkah, so the
Torah has the hint.

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About premium as well.
And I'm going to go to Numbers

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chapter 24.
I think it is yes.

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Now interesting thing is, when
Esther and Mordecai are living

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in Persia They they have Persian
names, so it's kind of like

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Daniel.
And, you know, Daniels his

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Hebrew name, right?
And his Persian, you know, his

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Babylonian name was belteshazzar
and Shadrach Meshach and

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Abednego.
Abednego.

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Those are all Babylonian names
as well.

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It's hananiah.
I can't remember hananiah

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mishael.
I can't remember the names of

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the three.
Maybe it's all good anyway, so

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they Esther and Mordecai.
They have those, those are

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actually a Persian names.
So, esters Hebrew name is

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Hadassah, which is mentioned in
the text had also, which is the

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Hebrew word for myrtle tree,
okay?

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And but her Persian named Esther
means star.

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So Esters Esters, this is like
the same as the origin of our

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word like astronomy or
astrology.

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Okay, name is Esther Aster.
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anyway, it's a lot to live up.
That is yeah, I guess you could

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think.
So, in in Numbers, chapter 24,

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verse with numbers numbers. 24,
first of all, this is where

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Balaam has been being hired to
attempt to curse Israel, right?

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Just fails over and over.
Okay and ends up blessing them

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but in let's see verse 17.
Now this is usually this is

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usually taken to be Be a
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think that it is but just like
the the Messiah is has

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foreshadowing by many of the
prophets and other characters in

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the scriptures.
This prophecy is fulfilled in

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both Esther and also the
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So so in verse 17 it says that
in the future there shall come a

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star out of Jacob.
And scepter.

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So this is going to be is going
to be royal, a Royal Star is

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going to come out of Jacob out
of Israel and he shell and shall

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Smite the corners of Moab and
destroy all the children of Chef

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and Edom, shall be a possession
crl.

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So she'll be a possession for
his enemies and Israel shall do

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valiantly.
So it's talking about a battle.

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Out of Jacob shall come, he that
shall have dominion and shall

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destroy him that remains in the
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And when he looketh on amalek,
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amalek was the first of the
nation's, but his latter end

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shall be that he perish forever.
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Amalek is also mentioned
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Actually, in verse 7, he shall
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buckets and his seed shall be in
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And his King shall be his King.
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Should be higher than a gag and
his kingdom shall be exalted.

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So a gag and amalek these
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of Esther as well.
So let me well, I guess I can

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talk about that right now.
So one of the one of the themes

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of the story of Esther is
actually the Redemption of King

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Saul.
You remember Saul was Israel's

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first king, right?
Yeah.

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And he was also a benjamite,
huh, right?

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So here we have this, this first
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They are also benjamites.
And actually interesting, if you

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go to Esther chapter, I think in
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It mentions a partial genealogy
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Okay, it is into, oh, yeah, to
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Now in shushan, which is the
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There was a certain Jew, whose
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The son of J are the son of
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I the son of Kish, a benjamite.
So interestingly in Kish, Kish

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and Jer, and shimmy.
I these are all relatives of

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Saul as well and and so by just
with this little mention right

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here there's a clue.
Now there's there's a larger

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like kind of an expanded Cannon.
I would say of the scriptures

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called the targums, have you
heard of the target?

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So basically I Two things that
are things is basically like the

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jst like ancient jst, okay, they
have their the scriptures with

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like added explanations and
clarifications.

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Alright, so in the, in the
targum of Esther it actually

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explicitly ties Mordecai to King
Saul like he's a direct descent.

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Oh, okay, okay.
And Esther is Esters as well

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because they're cousins, right?
So okay.

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Okay.
Now, ultimately ultimately King

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Saul fails and the kingdom is
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That's in first Samuel 15, I
won't go read it.

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But basically Samuel tells him
it's time to go after egg and

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egg.
Egg is the king of the

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amalekites and and who are the
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The original amalek is the
grandson of Edom or Esau?

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Okay, okay.
So so all three of those names

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were mentioned in Numbers
chapter 24 when talks about a

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star will rise up with a scepter
and will basically subdue Edom

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amalek and egg.
So the okay, okay, so so what

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happens is The first, let's back
up a little bit more.

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Why is amalek problem?
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Israel came out of Egypt, and
there are going through the

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Wilderness, amalek the
amalekites, they actually kind

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of sneak up behind the Israelite
Camp, right?

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And start like killing the
stragglers women and children,

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and people who are lagging
behind, and, and then, this is

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where they have their big battle
where Moses goes up on the hill.

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And he's got His arms held up
you know by area her.

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Okay Aaron and Hur and Joshua is
down there as the commander of

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the army and eventually amalek
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they just defeat him in that one
battle So eventually they get

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established in the land.
Saul is chosen to be king and

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Samuel says it's time to go and
take care of the amalekites for

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what they did.
And they're still they Still

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want to destroy Israel.
So we're going to go take care

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of that and Saul is told to
spare nothing right.

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Says, wipe out everything man
woman.

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Child and even the cattle sheep
cows, everything you just and

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your, and also, all their stuff,
you know, they're whatever

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treasure you may find.
Do not touch it.

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So Saul goes and carries out
this Mission and then, you know,

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they're successful in the
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They saw wins a gag is the king
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And so Samuel comes after the
battles over and says, oh, how

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did you do and Saul says, oh, we
did excellently.

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We fulfilled the words of the
Lord completely And in the

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background there's like a and
Samuel says, what is the sound

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of all these cattle?
I hear why does, why does the

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Army have a bunch of cattle and
Salsas?

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Oh well, we saved all those from
those are spoils and Sammy's.

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Like you were told explicitly
not to do that and Samuel says,

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oh well, but we're going to
offer these as sacrifices to the

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Lord.
So that will be that ought to be

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easing to him and ride.
This is the famous line where

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Samuel tells him, you know, the
Lord would rather have obedience

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then sacrifice, right?
And and then Samuels like well

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or you know Saul's like well we
also we also Save the King a

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live here to look.
We got him right here, here's a

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gag and and Samuel is like what
are you doing?

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And so No doubt, no doubt when
Saul started having success and

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then they kind of fell upon the
spoils, they let a bunch of

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amalekites go go because they
had to round up sheep and cows

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and stuff.
Right?

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So they just so Saul fails and
then Samuel tells him the

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kingdom.
Is he actually tears his cloak

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or whatever?
It says the kingdom is torn from

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you and then Of course, David is
Anointed.

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Okay.
Can I ask you a question and

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this may be off the subject a
little bit, but I think it's

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worth exploring here.
Oftentimes, you hear critics of

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the Bible, say things like it's
just brutal.

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There's, you know, this, I don't
see God in the Bible when you

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start talking about killing
everybody.

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Yeah, women children, what's
your response to something like

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that?
You know what?

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Actually.
It is, it is a hard thing to

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kind of understand especially
with our especially with our

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modern sensibilities.
I think because I think in those

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you know those former ages.
I think there's a lot more

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violent.
The world was just a more

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violent.
Probably it was.

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Yeah and we have we are very
secure and there's not bands of

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marauders and you know robbers
coming too.

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You bands of robbers, coming to
steal the kingship and stuff all

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the time.
People who don't think it's

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strange.
That people who carry a

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concealed weapon or something
with them all the time.

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They think that's the if there's
something wrong with these

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people, you know?
So it's difficult new.

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I have had, I've talked to
Mormons, you know who feel this

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way, like the god in the Old
Testament is all Vengeance and

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destruction and the god in the
New Testaments all lovey-dovey

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and stuff and and I'm like well.
You in the Book of Mormon

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there's God just like destroy.
It's like city after City back

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after the after I put you at
Jesus, crucifixion is all this

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destruction.
There's just all these Wicked

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cities that are sunk and burned
and whirlwinds, and earthquakes,

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and they're like, oh yeah, I
guess I didn't think about that.

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So so what do I mean?
What's my answer to that?

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Ultimately, I think it's the you
have to realize how utterly

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depraved and wicked.
The people who are destroyed our

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same with the worldwide, you
know, the flood with Noah, you

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know, the Canaanites in
particular, right?

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Which is what we're talking
about here with the amalekites

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to.
I mean, they were committing on

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the regular Every abominable
violent depraved act that that

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could be done and and God said
they're just up there, their

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wickedness is full and
overflowing.

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And so the land needs to be
cleansed.

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And to be honest, I think, Yeah,
I mean I think it I think

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ultimately it is a I mean, it's
a blessing actually to everyone

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even even those who were wiped
out in the flood, it was there's

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probably better for them in any
looking at it with eternalize.

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Sure.
Like just stop, stop sinning.

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Let's, let's have a reset here.
Of course, in got, you know, in

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reality, no one, no, one dies in
a final sense, those people are

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all still alive.
Did I think the other thing is

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too?
Is that I think with the Lord's

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trying to do here is prevent a
blood Feud from continuing on

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for generations and generations.
Oh absolutely, right.

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Absolutely.
Let's, let's let's finish this

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off and if people don't have to
look that far back in history to

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see that, that's not
unreasonable.

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I mean, we helped the mujahideen
in Afghanistan and it still came

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back to bite Us in the ass,
right?

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Yeah.
So this idea that and you To

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look at time frame.
It's a different time, right?

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I mean, you have child sacrifice
everywhere wrecked.

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And by the way, these people
were burning their children

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alive.
Yep.

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And these are, these are the
people that God says wipeout.

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So it's not like, they're just a
bunch of exactly innocent

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righteous people.
Exactly.

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These are, these are, I mean,
these are, these are people who

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just without provocation just
came up behind Israel.

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And started murdering, you have
the, the week among them.

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So.
And that's, and that I believe.

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Because I believe, I mean, I
believe what the scriptures say

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that the entire region of Canaan
was yell of people who were just

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Cutthroat, bloodthirsty.
Violent.

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Wicked?
To the max.

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Yep.
Yep.

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No, I agree.
I agree.

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Totally.
I and it's hard for us to

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comprehend.
Maybe it has a Society, that

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Wicked, but just hang on, hang
on, for a decade or something.

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Yeah, exactly.
It is hard to recognize that,

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right.
But the because we have been the

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beneficiaries of a fairly robust
Society for the better part of

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two hundred and fifty years now
especially with in America.

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Yeah.
And so to have that just pop out

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at you at the Bible I can see
where that might might throw

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some folks but it takes a little
bit of You know, before you

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throw the baby out with the
bathwater, let's look at

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everything around there and it
was a much more brutal time than

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what we're in now.
Absolutely.

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So, so that's the, that's the
downfall of Saul.

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He hangs on his king for a while
until David is grown.

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And, and Saul's eventually,
Killed in battle, commit

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suicide, attempts to anyway, and
but that was, but that was kind

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of the the breaking point as far
as the Lord was concerned.

448
00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:47,100
Like that's it, the kingdom is
going to another line.

449
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,100
And, you know, Saul's Saul's
children are not going to be

450
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:54,100
Kings anymore.
But in the story of Esther, we

451
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:58,300
actually have Saul's descendants
becoming royalty again, our

452
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,900
exemption Iris, the Redemption
of Saul and his line yet.

453
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,200
Yep, so and it happened actually
in.

454
00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:10,700
Well, we get to that, let me
let's go talk about the the

455
00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,200
story, a little more, I guess, a
little more depth.

456
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,700
So so the story starts out
actually, this is another theme

457
00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:23,500
is another theme throughout.
The book is drunkenness.

458
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,000
There's a, I counted them before
I came over here.

459
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,400
There's, there's like, six huge
drinking parties.

460
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:32,900
Well, I don't like you drinking
parties.

461
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,700
There's six, drinking parties,
of various sizes that are

462
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:40,200
mentioned, and so, and I think
that's part of it.

463
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:46,400
Part of, that's part of the
analogy with the God.

464
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:51,200
God being hidden is also just
that the people in the story are

465
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,900
like, kind of unaware, you know,
they're drunk and they're just

466
00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:58,800
kind of oblivious to the meaning
and the significance of the

467
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,200
things that are happening around
them.

468
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,600
And that's, I think, part of the
symbolic reason for including

469
00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:06,700
accounts of all these drinking
parties.

470
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,100
Yeah.
There's some as a guy who used

471
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:12,600
to drink a lot there.
There's some pretty strong

472
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,300
analogies are, right?
Because you even when look, if

473
00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:18,100
you're drinking on a regular
basis, even when your

474
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:21,300
quote-unquote sober, you're not
really so bad, right?

475
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:24,900
You're still kind of out of it.
You're still real slow, real

476
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:26,900
slow trying to gather your
senses.

477
00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:28,300
So yeah foggy.
Yep.

478
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:30,800
Little foggy in the brain.
So Akash bearish.

479
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:36,800
He becomes king and like to
celebrate, he had he throws a

480
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,600
six-month-long drinking party.
For all the princes and Nobles,

481
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,900
okay?
And then when that's over, he

482
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:50,700
throws, another drinking party
for everyone in shushan, which

483
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,500
is the capital city.
All the people, Everyone rich

484
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:57,700
and poor come for a whole week
and just the wine is just poured

485
00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:58,900
out.
People can drink as much as they

486
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:00,300
want.
No one's required to drink

487
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,800
because physically says, like
people doing this, do whatever

488
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,900
they want, and just have a good
time.

489
00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:09,400
So, so more than half a year,
there's this drinking party.

490
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,900
That's how that's how How a
cravero starts off his his, his

491
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,200
coordination or whatever.
And my younger days, I would

492
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,400
have been like, six months
Rockies.

493
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:28,400
So, during this during this, you
know, he's had while he's having

494
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:36,100
his feast and drinking party, he
calls, he calls for his wife.

495
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,200
Queen vashti.
Of course she is the queen now.

496
00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:43,600
Aquos Parish.
He has, he has a harem as well,

497
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:51,700
but but he has one Queen, whose
vashti and she you know she's

498
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,500
reputed to be extremely
beautiful.

499
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:56,600
Maybe the most beautiful fairest
of them all.

500
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,000
I don't know, right.
And so some of his princes and

501
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,900
stuff these teas talking and
bragging and he says, call for

502
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,800
vashti, you know, tell her to
come up here.

503
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,100
So everyone and he's drunk,
right?

504
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:11,700
I tell her to come up here so we
can all Look at her and see how

505
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,700
beautiful she is.
You know, I only laugh because

506
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,700
this will tell you how flawed I
was and still am to a large

507
00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:21,100
degree, right?
I'm not drinking anymore, but I

508
00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:24,100
can understand the, you know, I
just imagine how I say.

509
00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,400
Yeah, see my wife.
She's so hot prayer up here.

510
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,200
Honey.
So let's go.

511
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,600
She sends Messengers.
Who now vashti?

512
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,100
She's having her own party with
the women.

513
00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:38,400
Okay?
Okay.

514
00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:45,000
And And she is the she's the
granddaughter

515
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,500
great-granddaughter of
Nebuchadnezzar.

516
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:53,700
Okay, so I'm she's from a royal
family and she doesn't really

517
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,700
she's not drunk.
I don't think and but they come

518
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,200
in request her to come and show
off her beauty.

519
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,200
And she's says, no, like I'm not
I'm not going down there to hang

520
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,199
out with a bunch of drunk.
But two drunkards, get a bunch

521
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:09,100
of drunk guys.
Yeah.

522
00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:16,500
And So, the king is upset about
this and one of his counselors

523
00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:19,600
who is Holman.
He's, it's a different name

524
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,600
though, it's a Memory can but
the Jewish tradition says this

525
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,900
is Holman.
He comes up with this idea says

526
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,000
get rid of vashti and find
someone better.

527
00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,199
Someone who will respect the
king you know, and write a law

528
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,900
throughout your kingdom that all
the other wives have to respect

529
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,900
their husbands.
And he says, okay, A good idea.

530
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:45,100
So vashti is probably why it was
still drinking to.

531
00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,699
That's a great idea.
Vashti is disposed of, it

532
00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:50,900
doesn't actually say there's
dispute.

533
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,800
Among the rabbi's, you know,
whether she was exiled or

534
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:02,000
executed, even possibly.
I tend to think executed really.

535
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,300
And, you know, and I because,
because of Esther's hesitation

536
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,000
later on, like, She had just
seen what happens to even the

537
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000
queen if the king is displeased
with her.

538
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,500
So anyway, we'll get to that
later.

539
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,700
So they send out, you know,
Messengers throughout the

540
00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:27,500
throughout the kingdom to, to
bring the, you know, the

541
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:32,900
eligible maidens to come.
And try out for The position of

542
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,100
Queen.
Yeah just so.

543
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:39,500
And if and you know, if you
don't get to be Queen, you get

544
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,300
to be in the Royal Harem.
Yeah.

545
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,300
Which probably back then is not
necessarily a bad thing.

546
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,500
I mean, you've got your be
financially taken care of at

547
00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:51,200
least.
So Esters Esther is a chosen as

548
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:58,600
one of the contestants and
Mordecai tells her to keep her

549
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:04,000
Jewish identity secret.
So she goes, And, and is, you

550
00:36:04,008 --> 00:36:06,900
know, there's this very long
process.

551
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:11,800
Takes actually a whole year of
for them to purify themselves,

552
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,000
and they get all the special
baths, and perfumes, and

553
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,100
everything for an entire year
before they're ready to appear

554
00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:23,000
before the king.
So, but she does, she wins the

555
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,700
king's heart, over becomes the
new Queen and then the story

556
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:34,500
also says that Mordecai is
Mordecai basically has some kind

557
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:38,800
of low ranking position in the
king's court, he's like a

558
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,200
doorman or a gatekeeper or
something like that.

559
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,900
And so he goes to the Palace
every day and he hangs out at

560
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,900
the gate.
He doesn't go inside but he kind

561
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:52,500
of exchanges news and finds out
how Esther's doing and this is

562
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:57,000
where the next secret thing is,
is that Mordecai there as the

563
00:36:57,008 --> 00:37:00,400
gatekeeper?
He one time he's there and he

564
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,900
over here, some people talking
Around the corner or whatever to

565
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:09,600
of the king's attendants, big
sound and teresh there.

566
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,000
They are planning to assassinate
the king and he overhears their

567
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,800
plans.
And then interesting thing, is

568
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,100
he, well, this is, this is, this
is a tricky situation here

569
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:27,600
because you are lower.
You're low man on the totem

570
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,100
pole, right?
And you find out that some of

571
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:34,200
the Kings the king's attendants.
So, Are higher up than you are

572
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,100
planning on.
Assassinating the king.

573
00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:41,700
How do you warn the king?
Who do you tell?

574
00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:46,600
Because how do you know that the
person that you tell isn't in on

575
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,900
it, right?
And actually, it's interesting

576
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:56,100
because the scriptures actually
have another case of this this

577
00:37:56,100 --> 00:38:00,700
was in Second Kings.
There's the sennacherib who's

578
00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:04,900
the king of Assyria?
He was actually assassinated by

579
00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:10,800
his sons.
And it mentions that in mentions

580
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,300
that in Second Kings, but they
found ancient Assyrian clay

581
00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:17,400
tablets that have more of the
story.

582
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:23,400
And there was there was one of
the one of the Lower Court

583
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,400
members who found out about it
and actually told his supervisor

584
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,400
or whatever.
Hey, I know there's the king's

585
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,200
sons are trying to kill him and
the supervisor took him in and

586
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,600
they blindfolded him.
Because no one's allowed like

587
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,600
commoners or lower people are
not allowed to look directly

588
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,400
upon the king.
So even if you do get an

589
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,700
audience with the King, you'll
be blindfolded.

590
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,800
Okay?
So they bring him blindfolded

591
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:55,200
before the king and so just tell
us what, you know and he says

592
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,300
your sons are planning to kill
you and they take off his

593
00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:02,900
blindfold and he was just
confessing to the the future

594
00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:09,200
assassins because the person
that He entrusted was actually

595
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,000
in on the plot on the
conspiracy.

596
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:15,000
So and then, of course, then he
was questioned.

597
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,300
And then he and his household
were executed him, and then the,

598
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:22,600
the assassination was carried
out, you know, when people say

599
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,200
capitalism is a Cutthroat
business, I'm like, you've never

600
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,700
studied monarchies whose right?
Yeah, yeah, huh.

601
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,300
So so this is dangerous
business, right?

602
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:37,300
Mordecai finds out about this
and And who can he tell?

603
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,900
He said, I'll tell her because I
have access to the queen and and

604
00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:46,500
I can trust that and then she
can tell the king.

605
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,600
So he does that.
And then Esther, Esther tells

606
00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:56,800
warns the king and the to the
two conspirators are caught and

607
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,500
executed.
And that seems to be the end of

608
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:02,500
it.
So it was it turned out well.

609
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:09,000
Now shortly after this, Holman
who's one of the kind of Mobiles

610
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,700
are Prince's in the Kingdom.
He gets, he gets chosen to be

611
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,100
kind of the head of the of the
Nobles.

612
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,000
He's kind of elevated.
To be the Prime Minister li like

613
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,300
the second engine, man.
Okay?

614
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:27,900
And it's interesting, the The
scripture says that scripture

615
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:32,500
says that the king commanded
that everyone bow down to Haman.

616
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:39,100
But and of course, and The Story
Goes that Mordecai refuses.

617
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:45,300
And, but it's interesting that
Holman never doesn't do anything

618
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:50,500
to Mordecai directly, which he
would have authority to do, if

619
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:55,200
that really were the law.
So, the, Ocean is that probably

620
00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,100
that was not actually what the
king commanded but Hallman was

621
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:03,200
just Taking Liberties and
telling everyone that the king

622
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:11,000
expected them to go down and it
bothered him that that when this

623
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,200
that when he made this decree
that had no legal legal legally

624
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,300
binding force that people were
disrespecting it.

625
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:23,400
So I mean you can you can you
could make some you know he was

626
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,300
You can make some inferences or
some application to modern-day

627
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:35,100
things here to, you know, when
there's policies or decrees or

628
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:39,600
executive orders that are made
that are not actually laws, but

629
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:46,400
people are punished or Outcast
or whatever for not bending to

630
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,800
these.
A legal or or even illegal

631
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:54,000
orders.
That's the, that's the situation

632
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000
that Mordecai was in.
Now, he says, he gives the

633
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,700
reason that the reason why he
doesn't bow to hominis because

634
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,200
he says, it's because I'm a Jew
now.

635
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,900
This is kind of interesting
because in the scriptures that

636
00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:10,900
like Jews do bout to people,
okay?

637
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,700
But interesting is that it
mentions, when it's mentions

638
00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:19,600
hominid, specifically mentioned
As part of his genealogy as

639
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:24,300
well, which is that he is The
Descendant from a gag hahaha.

640
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:28,700
So here we have Mordecai, who is
a descendant of Saul and hummin

641
00:42:28,700 --> 00:42:36,700
whose descendant of a gag who
and so So there's some some

642
00:42:36,700 --> 00:42:38,300
tension there action.
Yeah?

643
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,100
Right.
Yeah.

644
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:46,000
Okay.
So he's really mad about this

645
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,400
and every time he rides past
Mordecai, who's the gatekeeper?

646
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:55,100
So, so Mordecai is seeing him
frequently.

647
00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:57,600
It's not just someone out in the
marketplace or whatever.

648
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,300
Someone in the palace who is
refusing to obey this order.

649
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:09,500
And so he goes to the kitchen
King and and says, there is a

650
00:43:09,508 --> 00:43:12,200
group of people and he keeps it
secret doesn't say who the group

651
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,000
of people is but but the king
isn't really paying attention

652
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,700
because they like, they're
having they're actually drinking

653
00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:21,300
while they're doing this.
Okay.

654
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:25,600
So that he's like, there's this
group of people who are in your

655
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,200
kingdom and they do not obey the
Kings laws.

656
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,400
He doesn't say what laws or what
the specifics are.

657
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:34,100
So they don't obey your laws and
I Die.

658
00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:36,300
And it will be good if we could
get rid of them.

659
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:41,000
And Holman says, I will even pay
out of my own pocket.

660
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:45,200
The soldiers salaries, or at
least part of the soldiers,

661
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,400
salaries to take care of this
problem, and the Kings like,

662
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,200
yeah, sure.
Whatever.

663
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,600
Here take my ring, go ahead and
write a law and suntan.

664
00:43:54,600 --> 00:44:01,300
You feel it with my Signet. and
so Harmon does this, and here's

665
00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:08,800
where Perrine comes in because
Hallman knows that the Jews are

666
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,600
God's people.
And that he protects them.

667
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,900
And so he wants to, he wants to
do everything, right?

668
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,400
And so he decides to basically
cast lots, you roll the dice to

669
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:27,400
pick the right month and the
right day to carry out the

670
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,700
execution of the Jews.
And the Jewish story is go.

671
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,700
This doesn't say to Nestor, but
that the Traditions are that, he

672
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,200
he rolled the dice and, you
know, it fell on you.

673
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,100
Day of Passover, whatever.
He's like.

674
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,000
No, no.
God.

675
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,900
Save them on that day and yeah,
he rolled the dice.

676
00:44:46,900 --> 00:44:50,000
And there's yeah.
Some other day that special to

677
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,700
the Jews.
He went through every month and

678
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:56,000
there's just nothing was going
to be quite right.

679
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,300
He knew that those were blessed
days and he finally came to the

680
00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:03,800
12th month and the 13th day of
the 12th month and I'm not sure,

681
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,500
but I think this is, this is
probably part of the reason why

682
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,300
13 is considered unlucky number.
See, this is the That was chosen

683
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,800
by casting lots to, to destroy
the Jews.

684
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,300
And this is what the, the law
that homine wrote, basically

685
00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:22,300
said on the 13th of Adar which
is the 12th month.

686
00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:27,800
Then everyone in the kingdom is
authorized and there was going

687
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,800
to be soldiers officially as
well.

688
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,800
But everyone is authorized to
kill their Jewish neighbors and

689
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:39,600
take their stuff.
All the all the wealth that the

690
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,800
Jews might.
Have can be yours.

691
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,800
You can kill them without
consequence.

692
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,800
In fact, you're commanded to.
And so that was the plan and the

693
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,600
plan goes out and they, you
know, they send out Runners,

694
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,300
they post up notices all over
the Kingdom, right?

695
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,400
And so there's sack cloth and
Ashes of the Jews are sad about

696
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,600
this and Esther finds out and
wonders.

697
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:12,800
Why Mordecai?
So sad, he tells her And and

698
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:20,000
also says to her, you got to go
before the king and tell him not

699
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,900
to do this or try to stop this
and and she responds.

700
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:25,600
She's like I even though she's
Queen.

701
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:30,100
She's like, I have not been in.
I've not been called for in the

702
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:32,800
last month.
I haven't even seen the king in

703
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,600
a month and I can't just show up
if I show up and he's displeased

704
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,500
with me for any reason, then
you're going to act.

705
00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:41,400
Yeah.
And we just saw what happened to

706
00:46:41,408 --> 00:46:44,800
vashti like you know a couple of
months ago or whatever it is you

707
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,700
know.
So but Mordecai tells her he's

708
00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:57,600
like he says if you don't if you
don't step up, the Jews are

709
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:05,900
going to be saved anyway.
But but you will bring disgrace

710
00:47:05,900 --> 00:47:10,700
upon yourself and your family
and and you and your descendants

711
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:14,100
will be destroyed.
Hmm, But the Jewish people, as a

712
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:18,300
people, we are going to be saved
anyway and and he also gives her

713
00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:23,200
the famous line, who knows that
you made for all, you know, you

714
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,500
were brought into the kingdom
you know to this Earth for this

715
00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:32,500
very reason like this is your
mission and so that Esther, and

716
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:38,300
she tells everybody too fast.
Everyone fast for three days.

717
00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:41,600
Known as the king under.
No, she's Jewish yet.

718
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,600
No.
This is all still a secret.

719
00:47:43,700 --> 00:47:49,600
Okay.
So at the end of three days, she

720
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,300
gets all dressed up and makes an
unannounced, you know, uncalled

721
00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:58,900
for appearance in the courtroom
in the Royal Court before the

722
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:01,600
king and he's just happy to see
her.

723
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:07,200
And he puts out his scepter
towards her, she touches the top

724
00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:09,500
and that's the signal that
everything is good.

725
00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:13,300
And he asks her, what, what do
you want my queen?

726
00:48:13,300 --> 00:48:16,300
Anything you anything, you ask
for, half my kingdom.

727
00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:19,900
I'll give to you.
And she says I just want you and

728
00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:25,200
homine to come to a drinking
party that I have planned later

729
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,100
this evening and he says, don't
wonderful done.

730
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,400
Yeah, common let's go get stick
ready, you know, and so they go

731
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,000
to the drinking party and Holman
is so excited about this because

732
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,800
it's just the king and he are
like the only ones invited by

733
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,000
the queen to this party and he's
like, this is awesome.

734
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,900
The king, just elevated me.
And now the queen is elevating

735
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:54,100
me and, and I'm about and I have
plans to get rid of all the

736
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,800
Jews, which will get rid of my
enemy Mordecai.

737
00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,200
And this will be, this will be
so awesome.

738
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:05,800
And so the king Akash Rivero,
she asked Esther, he's like,

739
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:07,500
he's like, tell me what you
want.

740
00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:09,800
Like, you don't want me to just
come to the party is.

741
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,900
Surely, you must have something
else that you want and she says,

742
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:18,300
yeah, I want you to come to
another party tomorrow. bro, and

743
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:21,400
then I'll tell you and he's
like, okay, this is great and

744
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:27,600
and Holman is so Overjoyed, that
he gets invited to a party,

745
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,800
another drinking party the next
day with the queen and the King,

746
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,300
this is great and as he's
leaving the party, That evening

747
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:43,700
he passes by Mordecai who does
not bow to him and he was on

748
00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:49,200
this high.
This emotional high and he says,

749
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,800
all of all of the Honors that
have been given me by the king

750
00:49:53,800 --> 00:50:00,100
and the Queen and my position,
they all mean nothing to me as

751
00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:05,500
long as Mordecai is alive.
Like I I just, I would Rather

752
00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:08,500
have him dead than all the
success in the world.

753
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,700
That's what.
Okay, so this is a, this is the

754
00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:16,100
spirit of a gag, right?
And I got to admit, I feel the

755
00:50:16,100 --> 00:50:20,600
same way about the Chicago Bears
so I mean again it on some level

756
00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:31,500
He goes to his wife has a rash
and she says just go like you

757
00:50:31,500 --> 00:50:34,200
are you're being exalted right
now.

758
00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:37,300
Like the king supports you and
honors.

759
00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:39,000
You the queen supports an
honors.

760
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:45,100
You just go ask the king for
permission to kill Mordecai and

761
00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:48,000
he says, why didn't I think of
it as a great idea?

762
00:50:48,500 --> 00:50:51,300
It's a great idea.
So he said so that that night,

763
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:56,400
he has a Gallows built in his
Courtyard of his house and his

764
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,700
backyard.
He has probably front yard.

765
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,900
He has a Gallows.
Built 50 cubits High says he's

766
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:04,500
going up front and center up to
have some personal.

767
00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:07,100
He's like I am and he's going to
go tell the king.

768
00:51:07,100 --> 00:51:08,300
Hey, I built the Gallows
already.

769
00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:09,900
I want to kill this guy.
Will you give me permission

770
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:14,900
permission?
And so meanwhile the king that

771
00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:18,800
night can't sleep, and he's
tossing and turning.

772
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:23,300
And finally, you know, he brings
his servant in and says Read to

773
00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:27,100
me from The Chronicles of the
kings of Persia.

774
00:51:28,100 --> 00:51:33,100
And so, And all of these things
are by chance, right by chance

775
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,300
this this night, the king can't
sleep by chance.

776
00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:40,000
He decides rather than counting
sheep.

777
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,900
I'm going to have someone read
to me from The Chronicle should

778
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:45,200
be boring enough that I can go
to sleep by Chance.

779
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,000
The book opens up to the place?
Where it mentions?

780
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,300
How Mordechai saved his life
from the assassination attempt

781
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:59,000
and the King says, keep reading.
What what did we do to honor

782
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:03,900
Mordecai?
And servant says nothing.

783
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:07,500
We didn't do anything.
And the king is just like we

784
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,300
didn't do anything for the guy
who saved my life.

785
00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:13,700
How can that be?
And right at this kind of moment

786
00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:18,100
of Amazement, Holman comes, like
knocking at the door like he

787
00:52:18,100 --> 00:52:22,100
can't even wait till morning and
the kids like who's out there

788
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:26,800
and it was Holman.
And so he says that hominin and

789
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:33,000
he says to Amin Amin just just
And I wanted to see, tell me,

790
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,100
what should the king do to
honor, you know, the man that he

791
00:52:37,100 --> 00:52:42,300
is pleased with and Holman in
his mind is like who could the

792
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:45,500
king be talking about, except
me?

793
00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:50,800
Yeah.
And and so Holman tells the

794
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,500
king.
Oh, okay, this is what you

795
00:52:53,500 --> 00:52:57,200
should do.
You should take that man and put

796
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:02,600
your Royal robe on him and put
your crown on him and put him on

797
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,400
the king's horse and have one of
your most noble.

798
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:12,900
Prince has like lead the horse
through the streets of shushan,

799
00:53:12,900 --> 00:53:16,400
the capital city proclaiming
behold, everyone.

800
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,000
This is what this is, what the
king does to the man that he

801
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,900
desires to honor.
And the King says, hummin, I

802
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:28,700
want you to take the cloak and
take the crown and do all those

803
00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:33,900
things that you just said.
To Mordecai and it's like oh I

804
00:53:33,908 --> 00:53:37,300
like his bubble.
Just is world just shattered.

805
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:42,700
Oh yeah.
And he goes home in just in

806
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:47,100
defeat and the next morning he
gets up and does what the king

807
00:53:47,100 --> 00:53:52,400
commanded and he puts the robe
on Mordecai and the crown on

808
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,900
Mordecai and put some on the
king's horse and walks out in

809
00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:59,400
front.
Proclaiming to everyone.

810
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:05,400
This is Is the man that the king
wants to honor, and this is how

811
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,400
the king honors the man that he
wants to honor.

812
00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:11,500
Now, it's interesting.
The, the, the rabbi's say, and I

813
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:16,200
like this, they say, although,
although God is never mentioned,

814
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:25,300
Explicitly that if every time
every time Esther uses the word

815
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:29,300
King, if you think of the Lord
God, right?

816
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:33,600
Then then here's this is the
disguise that that God is okay,

817
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,300
is using.
So, so here is AA missing.

818
00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:39,500
This is the man that this is
actually, the man that God wants

819
00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:44,500
to honor, so I gotta tell you
I'm in, I'm thoroughly enjoying

820
00:54:44,500 --> 00:54:47,400
the story more than any others
because when it feels a little

821
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,500
More.
Even though there's some serious

822
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:54,200
entry get play, it's a, it feels
a little more lighter, right?

823
00:54:54,300 --> 00:54:58,200
The other thing is, there is it
is, it is, it is humorous.

824
00:54:58,300 --> 00:55:00,300
Yeah, yeah, they're so fairly
dark.

825
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:04,100
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's like I'm thinking of all

826
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:06,300
these characters, right?
You got Mordecai.

827
00:55:06,300 --> 00:55:08,600
Who's just a good guy?
Just trying to do what he's

828
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,400
supposed to do.
And then you have Esther, who is

829
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,400
kind of the reluctant hero a
little bit.

830
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,400
Like I don't want to go do this
and then you got the key.

831
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:20,800
King and to me, he he seems like
a drunk frat boy.

832
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,000
More than anything else, right?
Yeah.

833
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:28,600
And it's just like every human.
Foible wrapped up into one story

834
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,200
and it's you're right.
It's almost comical.

835
00:55:33,300 --> 00:55:36,100
I mean it's it is.
It's almost Monty Python's, the

836
00:55:36,100 --> 00:55:38,200
finest, the finest story in the
scriptures.

837
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,800
Yeah, it really is.
Yeah, I could totally see guys

838
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,800
for that, you know, played in
like the Holy Grail Monty Python

839
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:50,900
being and doing something like
this, but So he's totally

840
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:58,400
deflated and but he after he's
done walking Mordecai through

841
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,800
the streets then he goes and
gets ready for the second

842
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,400
drinking party with the queen
and the king.

843
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,100
And so they have their party and
I'm sure there's just no joy in

844
00:56:08,100 --> 00:56:14,000
it for Holman whatsoever and
while he's sulking, the king

845
00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:16,100
says to Esther.
All right.

846
00:56:16,100 --> 00:56:18,200
Tell me give me.
Request.

847
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:22,000
And she says, I request my life
and the life of my people and

848
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,300
he's like, what, what do you
what are you talking about?

849
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:26,200
Like no one's, No One's Gonna
touch you.

850
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,900
And and she says, then she
reveals.

851
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:34,000
She says, I'm a Jew and and
there's a plot to destroy my

852
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:40,100
people and things like, who Amon
and Hollins are what?

853
00:56:42,100 --> 00:56:47,500
I didn't know, you were so
Furious that he stands up.

854
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,900
Leaves the room, just to regain
his composure.

855
00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:55,700
And while the Kings out, of
course, they're they're royalty

856
00:56:55,700 --> 00:56:58,300
Persian.
So they have the table there and

857
00:56:58,300 --> 00:57:00,700
everyone's like, on the like a
couch, or a bed, right?

858
00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:03,600
And everyone's reclining at the
table drinking and eating

859
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,900
grapes, and whatever they do.
And Holman just like runs over

860
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:11,200
to the Queen's couch or the
Queen's bed and it's just like

861
00:57:11,900 --> 00:57:18,300
pawing at her pleading, for his
life, you know, and The at that

862
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:21,800
moment, the king happens to come
back in and there's Holman like

863
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:26,500
on the bed with the queen and
he's like, oh you're going to,

864
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:28,300
are you going to force the queen
right?

865
00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:31,000
Like right here in my house, you
know?

866
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,000
In my presence and he's like
guards can get Holman and then

867
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,100
one of the guards is like, hey
King, look out the window over

868
00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:39,800
there.
Do you see that Gallows in

869
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,100
hallman's yard?
That was, that was what he was.

870
00:57:43,100 --> 00:57:47,500
He was planning on asking you
permission to kill.

871
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,500
Mordecai on that.
Gal.

872
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,600
And, and the Kings like
Mordecai.

873
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,500
Like the man.
I just honored and and homens

874
00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:58,400
just speechless.
And he says, take home and hang

875
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:08,100
him on that, and then he brings
in Mordecai and And and puts and

876
00:58:08,100 --> 00:58:15,600
puts the robe and the crown on
him and basically says you will

877
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:21,600
be my second-in-command.
And and so this is another theme

878
00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:27,200
of the book of Esther is this
reversal of, I mean, they change

879
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,300
places.
Hallman was hung on the Gallows

880
00:58:30,300 --> 00:58:33,700
that he had made for Mordecai,
and Mordecai is elevated, and

881
00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:38,400
become and actually takes
hummons place as the king's

882
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,400
advisor.
Prime minister, whatever.

883
00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:45,000
And and he takes the ring, you
know, as they're taking homina

884
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:46,700
way to hang him.
He takes the ring off his

885
00:58:46,700 --> 00:58:49,600
finger, the Signet and put on
you later on.

886
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,500
He gives that to Mordecai's not
there but the next day, you

887
00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:57,500
know, it gives that to Mordecai.
And and and so the Kings like,

888
00:58:57,500 --> 00:59:00,600
okay, well you know, I wasn't, I
wasn't paying attention.

889
00:59:00,900 --> 00:59:04,500
When Holman told me about this
plan, I didn't, I didn't know it

890
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:07,500
was going on.
What do you want me to do?

891
00:59:07,500 --> 00:59:11,000
And, and Esther and Mordecai or
like you need to, you need to

892
00:59:11,700 --> 00:59:14,100
save our people and write a law
and reverse it.

893
00:59:14,100 --> 00:59:16,100
And he says, I can't do that,
you know?

894
00:59:16,100 --> 00:59:20,500
Because once once a law has been
written then we can, it cannot

895
00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:26,900
be undone but I'll give you Give
you my ring, and you can write a

896
00:59:26,900 --> 00:59:29,600
new law, whatever, whatever you
can think of to help your

897
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,200
people.
And so, what they decide doing

898
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:38,800
to do is a new law that says
that with with royal approval,

899
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,300
the Jews May defend themselves.
Hmm.

900
00:59:43,300 --> 00:59:47,800
Like the, it is perfectly legal
for the Jews to defend

901
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:54,000
themselves.
And and that the like the royal

902
00:59:56,100 --> 01:00:00,600
favour or whatever you want to
say, is with the Jews now.

903
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:06,000
And so and then and then to show
that this is the case, like

904
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:10,800
Mordecai does go through the
streets again, with the Kings

905
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:15,300
robe, and the crown, and he's
second in command, and there's a

906
01:00:15,308 --> 01:00:18,100
lot.
This, the in Esther says that a

907
01:00:18,107 --> 01:00:22,100
bunch of the People who were
enemies.

908
01:00:22,100 --> 01:00:24,500
The other thing is they start to
have second thoughts about

909
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,900
carrying out these plans because
the tide has changed here and a

910
01:00:28,908 --> 01:00:31,800
bunch of people who maybe were
kind of just ambivalent actually

911
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:38,200
join with the Jews and, and
convert to, because now Judaism

912
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,000
is favored.
Yeah.

913
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:47,300
So the 13th, the 13th of Adar
comes and there's a big battle

914
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,800
in the palace City.
Shushan and also in the larger

915
01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:59,500
Empire and basically the Jews
are victorious on the 13th.

916
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:07,500
And and so on the 14th, people
outside the, the capital city,

917
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,700
they have a big party to
celebrate their Deliverance

918
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:17,400
inside the city.
They they fight for an

919
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,100
additional day.
So a fight on the 13th and they

920
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:23,700
fight on the 14th and then on
the 15th when they're in the

921
01:01:23,700 --> 01:01:28,000
city they have a they have a
party and so those two days, the

922
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,800
14th and the 15th, those are the
days of Perrine, okay?

923
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,900
That they celebrate, that's
where the party asked but that's

924
01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:39,400
where the party comes from now.
I'm going to read well.

925
01:01:39,500 --> 01:01:48,200
So I'm going to mention a couple
more Of course, there's this

926
01:01:48,700 --> 01:01:55,000
this theme of chance and
coincidence and, you know, with

927
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,900
the Perrine, which the lots.
And the scriptures have a bunch

928
01:01:58,900 --> 01:02:02,700
of times when lots are cast to.
It's actually interesting,

929
01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:06,500
though, we can Proverbs chapter
16 verse 33.

930
01:02:06,500 --> 01:02:08,900
It says the law is cast in the
lap.

931
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,000
But the outcome is the Lord's,
basically, it's got some

932
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:17,700
paraphrase but it's like, lots
are used to make decisions and

933
01:02:17,700 --> 01:02:22,300
you like have some control over
the dye, or the straws or

934
01:02:22,300 --> 01:02:25,600
whatever it is, you're doing,
but the outcome, the Lord will

935
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,900
use so.
So there's a bunch of times in

936
01:02:28,900 --> 01:02:33,400
the scriptures when lot sir are
used, you know Nephi and his

937
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:37,000
brothers, they cast lots to
decide who's going right.

938
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,400
Try to get the plates. and even
though the first thing, you

939
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:47,200
know, Layman fails Label.
Well, I'm Layman.

940
01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:50,400
Yep.
Layman fails, even though the

941
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,900
lot was cast for him.
Like I think that's actually

942
01:02:52,900 --> 01:02:55,700
shows God's hand and then they
all go together, right?

943
01:02:55,700 --> 01:02:59,200
And they all fail together.
And so, this is like the oldest

944
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:00,500
doesn't have a right to the
plates.

945
01:03:00,500 --> 01:03:02,800
And as a group, they don't have
a right to the plates.

946
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,900
They are Nephi's.
Of course, they cast lots to

947
01:03:06,900 --> 01:03:12,200
decide like the apostles decide
who to replace Judas with right

948
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:18,300
and they decide Mathias.
Lots of other times including

949
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,500
the landline associate divided
by casting lots and we still

950
01:03:22,500 --> 01:03:25,200
call land.
Lots lots right.

951
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:29,700
Yeah so that comes from that
idea of like Joshua Joshua was

952
01:03:29,700 --> 01:03:33,600
supposed to cast lots to decide
where the tribes get their

953
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,200
inheritance is.
So anyway so that's that's one

954
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:40,400
of the themes.
Another one as I mentioned is

955
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:44,000
this turning things upside down
and the scriptures are kind of

956
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,600
full of this tube?
This story just illustrates it

957
01:03:46,607 --> 01:03:49,500
so P perfectly you know about
the weak things being made

958
01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:54,900
strong, strong things being made
weak, you valleys, being exalted

959
01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:59,900
mountains made low first last
and the last first and so this

960
01:03:59,900 --> 01:04:03,800
happens.
Now the Redemption Redemption of

961
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:04,900
Saul.
I'm going to mention that a

962
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:10,900
little more too, because it's
interesting that when the Jews

963
01:04:10,900 --> 01:04:15,000
defend themselves it on both
those days, they fight on the

964
01:04:15,100 --> 01:04:19,400
Chief of a fight on the 14th and
says specifically that the Jews

965
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:26,500
did not touch any of the spoils.
Well, harking back to Saul.

966
01:04:26,500 --> 01:04:28,800
That's right.
And what was happening there.

967
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:30,700
Yep.
So this is the Redemption of saw

968
01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:35,000
like it was but it was the other
way around the law that Hamid

969
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,500
had written said, you can go
kill your neighbors and take

970
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:43,100
their goods but when the Jews
defended themselves they didn't

971
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:47,800
they just left everything for
Whatever, whoever supposed to

972
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,100
inherit, right?
The dead people's property.

973
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:52,800
So, but this is like, you know?
Yeah.

974
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:58,300
Again Redemption of Saul
bye-bye, his descendant

975
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:04,100
Mordecai, who wasn't the king,
but but symbolically, he was the

976
01:05:04,100 --> 01:05:04,900
King, right?
Yeah.

977
01:05:04,900 --> 01:05:08,000
It's, he was wearing it around.
Wearing the crown wearing the

978
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,500
robes on the king's horse
parading around.

979
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:19,300
Here is the king essentially.
Doing succeeding at the task,

980
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:23,100
specifically against a gag
because remember Holman is the

981
01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:28,000
descendant of a gag, right?
Succeeding against a gag, where

982
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:34,700
his ancestor Saul had failed.
And then the other another

983
01:05:34,700 --> 01:05:41,700
really interesting thing Really
interesting thing about Perrine

984
01:05:41,700 --> 01:05:46,000
is that it has some interesting
ties to Yom Kippur.

985
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:51,600
So, Yom Kippur we talked about.
It is the highest holiest day,

986
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,000
right in the calendar, right?
This is the day of atonement.

987
01:05:55,100 --> 01:06:00,300
That's what yom-yom is day.
Kippur is atonement or covering.

988
01:06:02,300 --> 01:06:09,200
In, if you go to Leviticus 20 or
23, like I mentioned before

989
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,300
that, it has all the feasts.
And when it talks about Yom

990
01:06:12,300 --> 01:06:16,800
Kippur there though, it actually
the word is Yom Kippur and it's

991
01:06:16,900 --> 01:06:20,700
that word is in other places but
in Leviticus 23 it actually says

992
01:06:21,700 --> 01:06:33,700
yeom hockey Perrine.
So And yeah, it's if if you read

993
01:06:33,700 --> 01:06:36,300
the word, if you read the word,
one way you ohm is day.

994
01:06:36,300 --> 01:06:43,600
And then hockey, Perrine means
The day of coverings it's

995
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:47,900
actually plural or atonements.
Okay the day of atonement.

996
01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:52,000
But you can actually you can
actually break the phrase up in

997
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:57,400
Hebrew a little different way
and you can say you own hockey

998
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,700
purine which means a day like
Perrine.

999
01:07:03,900 --> 01:07:08,900
So how is Yom Kippur?
Like Perrine?

1000
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:14,100
There's actually some very
interesting parallels of course

1001
01:07:14,100 --> 01:07:19,500
there's there's these also big
drastic differences to so on Yom

1002
01:07:19,500 --> 01:07:27,000
Kippur the other days, Passover,
and Tabernacles and the Feast of

1003
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,400
trumpets are Rosh.
Hashanah, those are all those

1004
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:34,000
are days that are kind of
mixtures of spiritual,

1005
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,700
spiritual, their spiritual
things.

1006
01:07:36,700 --> 01:07:39,900
And but there's also physical
things too, because it's a

1007
01:07:39,908 --> 01:07:42,400
party, right?
You have a feast in your friends

1008
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:46,700
over, but there's also prayers
and recitations, and meditation

1009
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:53,200
and all those things.
Yom Kippur is is kind of one

1010
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:55,500
extreme end of that though
because there's nothing

1011
01:07:55,500 --> 01:07:57,400
physical.
I'm not going to do your just

1012
01:07:57,400 --> 01:07:59,400
there's no party there's no
Feast.

1013
01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:01,800
You're just pulling for the
priest to get his job done.

1014
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,300
That's exactly right.
You just pray and hope and like

1015
01:08:04,300 --> 01:08:06,800
it's all spiritual.
And then on the other end of the

1016
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:10,800
spectrum, we have premium which
is actually all physical.

1017
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,800
Like, it's just a party people
wear costumes.

1018
01:08:13,900 --> 01:08:16,899
People act crazy, they sing
songs and dance people.

1019
01:08:16,899 --> 01:08:18,100
Go out and visit their
neighbors.

1020
01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:27,500
They They take food to everyone.
They drink a lot actually, and

1021
01:08:27,700 --> 01:08:32,500
it's quite the opposite.
So there's these like Polar

1022
01:08:32,500 --> 01:08:38,300
Opposites there and yet, there's
this there, the rabbi's, see

1023
01:08:38,300 --> 01:08:42,899
these two days as like opposite
sides of the same coin, okay?

1024
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:43,899
Okay.
Men.

1025
01:08:43,899 --> 01:08:46,600
And as a balance to each other,
I was going to say there's kind

1026
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:49,399
of a yin and yang.
Yeah that's exactly right. and

1027
01:08:49,399 --> 01:08:53,000
that salvation comes through
both things because there is

1028
01:08:53,000 --> 01:09:00,100
this, there is this need that we
have for atonement and

1029
01:09:01,899 --> 01:09:05,399
Forgiveness, and for humility
and reverence.

1030
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:11,100
But there's also, there's also a
need for partying and having a

1031
01:09:11,100 --> 01:09:13,800
good time and rejoicing and all
that.

1032
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,700
And premium just feels that.
Feels that beautiful.

1033
01:09:16,700 --> 01:09:21,200
Yeah, and that salvation is
includes both those things, you

1034
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,600
know.
Now, another interesting thing

1035
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:28,100
is on the day of Yom Kippur the
high priest.

1036
01:09:29,700 --> 01:09:32,700
Well, every well, first of all,
everyone's fast Eating right?

1037
01:09:32,899 --> 01:09:35,600
And the fasting for the success
of the high priest because he's

1038
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:41,300
going to go in to the throne
room, he's going to go into all

1039
01:09:41,300 --> 01:09:43,700
where the holy of holies is with
the Ark of the Covenant is which

1040
01:09:43,700 --> 01:09:48,899
is the God's throne and appear
before the king and asked for

1041
01:09:48,899 --> 01:09:52,399
the Salvation of his people.
Oh yeah yeah.

1042
01:09:52,500 --> 01:09:54,700
Do you see what else?
Yeah, so Esther Esther, go

1043
01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:58,000
tester fast.
And she goes in fasting and

1044
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,300
appears before the king and
doesn't know whether she'll

1045
01:10:00,300 --> 01:10:02,100
livered.
I mean, this is a This is a

1046
01:10:02,108 --> 01:10:05,200
threat that hangs over ancient
Israel to like, if the high

1047
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:11,800
priest goes in there and he's
unworthy in some way, like God

1048
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,500
might just strike him down right
which, and it's kind of unknown,

1049
01:10:15,500 --> 01:10:18,200
you don't know, right?
And so, Esther doesn't know,

1050
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:22,200
like the high priest, doesn't
know, but she goes in fasting

1051
01:10:22,300 --> 01:10:28,100
and is accepted and the people
are redeemed, right?

1052
01:10:28,100 --> 01:10:32,400
As a result.
So, The other thing is

1053
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:36,800
interesting, is all the other
festivals and holy days.

1054
01:10:37,700 --> 01:10:42,100
None of them involve casting
lots except Perrine and Yom

1055
01:10:42,100 --> 01:10:45,800
Kippur because they actually
cast lots on the Two Goats.

1056
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,500
Yeah, that is part of Yom Kippur
is casting lots.

1057
01:10:49,700 --> 01:10:52,900
Okay.
For, for the, for the Salvation.

1058
01:10:52,900 --> 01:10:58,100
Now, in in, in the story of
Esther, the lots are cast for

1059
01:10:58,100 --> 01:11:00,400
their destruction and then on
Yom Kippur the Lots.

1060
01:11:00,500 --> 01:11:04,900
Cast for their salvation.
But but those are the only times

1061
01:11:04,900 --> 01:11:07,900
when lots are cast at Canadian
connection with a holiday.

1062
01:11:07,900 --> 01:11:10,700
So there's this beautiful kind
of connection there too.

1063
01:11:13,100 --> 01:11:17,000
And the other The other
interesting and kind of

1064
01:11:17,008 --> 01:11:20,300
beautiful thing I'm going to
this is this kind of last theme

1065
01:11:20,300 --> 01:11:24,900
and then I want to tell tell
about some kind of modern

1066
01:11:25,500 --> 01:11:27,300
fulfillments I guess if.
Okay three.

1067
01:11:27,300 --> 01:11:31,600
But another thing that's
interesting about Peru mean this

1068
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:34,100
kind of goes back to the the God
is hidden kind of thing.

1069
01:11:36,700 --> 01:11:40,300
You know, when the children of
Israel we're at Mount Sinai, it

1070
01:11:40,300 --> 01:11:45,000
was fearful there, the mountain
was on fire.

1071
01:11:45,300 --> 01:11:47,400
It was Smoke.
There was the sound of the

1072
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,400
shofar.
There's thunder and lightning.

1073
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,200
And God says, here's my
Commandments, will you keep

1074
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:59,000
them?
But it's the answer that they

1075
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:00,300
gave was, of course?
Yes.

1076
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:05,000
But you could argue that it was
a little coerced, sure.

1077
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:07,400
Because it's like, will you keep
my Commandments?

1078
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:08,900
If you say yes, you'll be my
people.

1079
01:12:08,900 --> 01:12:11,900
If you say no, this is your
grave, right?

1080
01:12:11,900 --> 01:12:14,300
I will just destroy you right
here, right?

1081
01:12:14,300 --> 01:12:17,300
The oh, yes, we will.
Say yes, I think we'll say yes

1082
01:12:17,500 --> 01:12:19,300
and Moses.
Please go up and talk to him

1083
01:12:19,300 --> 01:12:22,200
because we don't want to.
Well, even if I'm right, this is

1084
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:29,900
too much, right?
So symbolically that, this is

1085
01:12:29,900 --> 01:12:35,700
where this is where God Mary's
becomes the husband of right is,

1086
01:12:35,700 --> 01:12:38,000
right?
This is the, their contract,

1087
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:46,700
their ketubah, but on Perrine,
We have a choice made by the

1088
01:12:46,700 --> 01:12:55,300
Jews to be God's people and to
own their Heritage own, their

1089
01:12:55,300 --> 01:13:00,700
jewishness without any coercion.
In fact, God's not around,

1090
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,800
right?
God doesn't seem to be coming to

1091
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,700
save them.
There's no profit, there's no

1092
01:13:06,700 --> 01:13:10,900
Moses.
And the people probably could

1093
01:13:10,900 --> 01:13:13,300
just keep their identities
hidden.

1094
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,400
And avoid trouble, your keep
their nose down.

1095
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:23,100
Don't don't draw any attention
to yourself, but even when God

1096
01:13:23,100 --> 01:13:27,300
is not there and at the Perrine,
they say, we are going to be

1097
01:13:27,300 --> 01:13:34,200
there for God, even though he's
doesn't seem to be here for us,

1098
01:13:34,300 --> 01:13:35,100
right?
We're going to be faithful

1099
01:13:35,100 --> 01:13:40,800
anyway, so there's no coercion.
So so sometimes those You know,

1100
01:13:40,808 --> 01:13:43,400
some commentators will say
something like this is like

1101
01:13:43,500 --> 01:13:46,700
sinai's where the marriage
happened, but premium is like,

1102
01:13:46,700 --> 01:13:50,600
where the romance being like,
okay like where the Jews showed

1103
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,000
their love without any coercion,
right?

1104
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:59,100
And just such actually I do
Choose You Even when it is

1105
01:13:59,100 --> 01:14:02,700
awesome, when nothing is going,
there's not necessarily going to

1106
01:14:02,700 --> 01:14:07,900
be any reward or punishment but
I just I just fully embrace my

1107
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:12,000
my Israelite Heritage and that
At and I'm going to stand up for

1108
01:14:12,100 --> 01:14:16,000
for that regardless.
Yeah, that is really cool.

1109
01:14:16,300 --> 01:14:18,000
Yeah.
Okay.

1110
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:24,000
So those are all the you know
many of the the beautiful themes

1111
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:33,600
now modern modern application to
this K actually this goes to the

1112
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:36,800
Nazis.
There's some real interesting

1113
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:40,100
things about preme and the
Nazis.

1114
01:14:40,300 --> 01:14:46,000
Really because of course, the
Nazis have the same plan as home

1115
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:47,800
and did.
We're going we want to

1116
01:14:48,100 --> 01:14:52,600
exterminate the Jewish race.
Yeah, that was homens plan that

1117
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:57,700
was Hitler's plan.
Actually Hitler one time said it

1118
01:14:57,700 --> 01:14:59,800
is true.
We are barbarians.

1119
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:05,300
It is an honorable title to us.
I am freeing Humanity from a

1120
01:15:05,300 --> 01:15:09,200
false Vision called conscience
and morality the Jews have

1121
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:13,800
inflicted to Wounds on mankind,
circumcision on its body and

1122
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,400
conscience on its Soul, the war
for world.

1123
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,900
Domination will be fought
entirely between us, the Germans

1124
01:15:19,900 --> 01:15:23,700
and the Jews.
All else is facade whoo-hoo,

1125
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:25,900
right?
And this is, I mean, this just

1126
01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:29,700
is, this is the godlessness of
socialism?

1127
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:31,800
Yep.
Communism.

1128
01:15:32,300 --> 01:15:34,600
Right.
And it bothers me, sometimes,

1129
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:38,300
when people say the Nazis were
right wing, like they're,

1130
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:40,800
they're socialists.
No, I You know what?

1131
01:15:40,900 --> 01:15:46,400
I just had a conversation with a
woman that podcast will come out

1132
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:50,400
next weekend.
Where we talked about this, I

1133
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:56,600
think it's because of we measure
things differently here in

1134
01:15:56,608 --> 01:16:00,100
America than in Europe, right in
America.

1135
01:16:00,100 --> 01:16:03,700
We reset things back a little
bit at the Constitutional

1136
01:16:03,700 --> 01:16:08,900
Convention from complete Anarchy
to just this side of orderly.

1137
01:16:09,300 --> 01:16:11,100
And so, when we look at, Right
or left.

1138
01:16:11,100 --> 01:16:13,700
It's a lot different than what
Europe does, right?

1139
01:16:13,700 --> 01:16:16,700
Europe is used to subjugation.
They've been that way for

1140
01:16:16,900 --> 01:16:19,300
centuries.
So when you start talking about

1141
01:16:19,300 --> 01:16:23,100
right and left in Europe, its
communism is on the left and

1142
01:16:23,100 --> 01:16:26,200
fascism is on the right?
So I don't think that those were

1143
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,100
Gales mean the same thing,
right?

1144
01:16:28,100 --> 01:16:30,000
Yeah.
I think I've never heard that

1145
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,400
explanation.
I like that though.

1146
01:16:31,500 --> 01:16:35,600
Like when you're just used to
write subjugation?

1147
01:16:35,900 --> 01:16:38,700
Yeah.
And monarchy, or whatever

1148
01:16:38,700 --> 01:16:40,100
fascism would be on the right of
that.

1149
01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:41,700
Because you can still own a
business.

1150
01:16:41,700 --> 01:16:43,300
You just have to work with the
government.

1151
01:16:43,300 --> 01:16:46,800
Quick quid pro quo, kind of
stuff, right?

1152
01:16:47,300 --> 01:16:50,700
Communism, you know,
federalizing the stuff.

1153
01:16:50,700 --> 01:16:54,700
So as I look at it, I think it's
a matter of scales but yeah,

1154
01:16:54,700 --> 01:16:56,300
point of view.
Where is your e, right?

1155
01:16:56,300 --> 01:16:58,200
Where's your reference?
You can measure from.

1156
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:04,500
Yeah, I like that.
Okay, well so not only did

1157
01:17:04,500 --> 01:17:08,800
Hitler want to exterminate the
Jews but also they wanted to

1158
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,100
plunder his tomb.
And they did.

1159
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:17,800
There was many Nazi officials
that became wealthy from taking,

1160
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:22,700
you know, plunge spoils yep.
So so that just goes right along

1161
01:17:22,700 --> 01:17:25,900
with hallman's plan to.
Now, it's interesting.

1162
01:17:26,700 --> 01:17:34,900
And the, the Nazis were aware of
this kind of Perrine connection.

1163
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:42,800
So set.
See, I got a little article

1164
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:44,100
here, I'm going to read some
things here.

1165
01:17:47,500 --> 01:17:52,400
This is from an article in the
Torah Torah Decor.com.

1166
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,800
So websites got just nice Jewish
articles anyway.

1167
01:17:56,300 --> 01:17:59,400
It says, the Nazis were well
aware of the Jewish holidays and

1168
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:03,600
used Jewish festivals for
particular savagery these days

1169
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:07,600
had become known to the Jews.
As Goebbels Goebbels calendar

1170
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,500
and many atrocities were
committed specifically on

1171
01:18:11,500 --> 01:18:17,800
Perrine.
So, in premium premium of 1942

1172
01:18:18,900 --> 01:18:20,900
1000, I didn't I didn't mention
this.

1173
01:18:20,900 --> 01:18:24,700
I'm gonna before I read that.
I actually need to mention one

1174
01:18:24,700 --> 01:18:26,000
more thing in the Book of
Esther.

1175
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:32,800
So, Holman had Holman had ten
Sons.

1176
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:35,900
Okay.
And they 10.

1177
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,400
Yes.
And they lived they lived in

1178
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,200
shushan, which is the capital
city, and of course they were.

1179
01:18:42,500 --> 01:18:45,700
They were involved in the
conspiracy.

1180
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:47,400
Sure, father?
Right.

1181
01:18:47,400 --> 01:19:00,100
So, so, So in this is Esther,
9:12 on the, after the first day

1182
01:19:00,100 --> 01:19:04,400
of battle on the 13th, then, you
know, Esther comes to the king

1183
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:09,600
and the King says, tell me the
news, let's talk about it.

1184
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:13,300
And you know, King says the Jews
have slain and destroyed.

1185
01:19:13,300 --> 01:19:17,100
Five hundred men in shushan, the
palace and the ten sons of

1186
01:19:17,100 --> 01:19:19,700
Haman.
What have they done in the rest

1187
01:19:19,700 --> 01:19:22,500
of the king's provinces?
And now what is that a petition?

1188
01:19:22,500 --> 01:19:23,800
And it shall be granted unto
thee.

1189
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,000
Or what is that a request?
Other and it shall be done.

1190
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,600
So he's like, all right, you've
had this success here.

1191
01:19:28,700 --> 01:19:30,600
Tell me about what's going on
out there.

1192
01:19:30,900 --> 01:19:32,400
So they kind of exchange some
news.

1193
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,200
And he says, what else do you
want to have done?

1194
01:19:34,900 --> 01:19:38,300
And then said, Esther is a verse
13.

1195
01:19:38,500 --> 01:19:41,900
If it, please the king let it be
granted to the Jews which are in

1196
01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:46,300
shushan to do tomorrow.
Also, according unto this day is

1197
01:19:46,300 --> 01:19:50,900
to create and let homines ten
Sons be hanged upon the Gallows.

1198
01:19:51,900 --> 01:19:54,800
Now, this is interesting because
in the verse before he said

1199
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,400
Almonds.
Sons are destroyed, right?

1200
01:19:57,500 --> 01:20:03,900
But here she said, how about
tomorrow meaning perfect?

1201
01:20:03,900 --> 01:20:08,200
Well, literally meaning the the
14th, right?

1202
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:11,200
But this could be understand
understood kind of

1203
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,300
prophetically, as in the future
in the future.

1204
01:20:16,700 --> 01:20:22,300
Let us let us do let us take
hallman's ten sons and hang them

1205
01:20:22,300 --> 01:20:28,700
on the Gallows.
She gives a list of gives a list

1206
01:20:28,700 --> 01:20:34,000
of the ten Sons there earlier.
So, okay, so that's just an

1207
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,900
important point that I want to
bring out.

1208
01:20:37,900 --> 01:20:44,700
So so in preme of 1942, there
was 10 Jews that were publicly

1209
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:48,800
publicly hung, by the Nazis
quote, in Revenge for Holman.

1210
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:54,300
Ha ha ha.
Okay, and then, in the next

1211
01:20:54,300 --> 01:21:00,300
year, Kareem of 1943, the Nazis
fooled, some of the Jews in the

1212
01:21:01,100 --> 01:21:05,700
PO trick.
How ghetto by asking for ten

1213
01:21:05,700 --> 01:21:09,400
Jewish volunteers as part of an
alleged Exchange program for

1214
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:14,800
Germans living in Palestine but
when the 10 volunteers came

1215
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:18,500
forward, they were just shot.
And again, this was they chose

1216
01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:23,300
10 because this was revenge for
Holman and they did it, they did

1217
01:21:23,300 --> 01:21:27,100
on Purim. 20, you know to
avenge, homines 10 cents.

1218
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:36,500
There was one particular guy and
I'm not a holocaust.

1219
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,300
Scholar by any means.
But anyway, so if these names

1220
01:21:40,300 --> 01:21:42,000
sound familiar, you can tell me
about them.

1221
01:21:42,300 --> 01:21:50,500
But Julius streicher are strike.
Strike cha strike here, I don't

1222
01:21:50,500 --> 01:21:59,400
know how to say it anyway on.
On the day after kristallnacht,

1223
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:06,100
he wrote this article about
about the secret plans of the

1224
01:22:06,108 --> 01:22:10,400
Jews related to the Jewish
holiday of Purim and how if the

1225
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:15,000
Germans did not wipe out the
Jews then the Jews are going to

1226
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:19,000
be celebrating another Perrine.
Wow.

1227
01:22:19,100 --> 01:22:22,300
And so that was sold as a
striker.

1228
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,800
Hitler.
Also I read that there you know

1229
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:31,600
In a radio broadcast.
In 1944, he stated the Nazis

1230
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,100
were defeated.
The Jews.

1231
01:22:33,100 --> 01:22:35,700
Could celebrate the destruction
of Europe in a second.

1232
01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:40,300
Triumphant Perrine Festival.
So, interesting thing though,

1233
01:22:40,300 --> 01:22:44,900
here is that after, you know,
after the war was done Germany's

1234
01:22:44,900 --> 01:22:48,500
defeated the Nuremberg trials,
start, right?

1235
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:55,300
And, and this is in there in
1946, if I remember, right?

1236
01:22:56,400 --> 01:23:01,600
And Actually.
Let's see.

1237
01:23:03,700 --> 01:23:08,500
This is actually 11.
Interesting, there's a let's

1238
01:23:08,500 --> 01:23:11,500
see.
There's 24 defend 24 defendants.

1239
01:23:11,700 --> 01:23:15,100
Try to the Nuremberg trials
started in 1945.

1240
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,100
Two of two of the 24 were
acquitted.

1241
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:24,700
A tour given prison sentences
and 12 were condemned to death

1242
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:29,800
of those one of them.
Martin bormann was tried In

1243
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,700
Absentia so I don't think he was
like they hadn't captured.

1244
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,000
Hit him or maybe he'd already
died but they should try to me

1245
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:37,000
anyway.
Yeah.

1246
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,000
So that left eleven.
And one of them.

1247
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:45,000
Hermann Goering.
He committed suicide before I

1248
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:46,200
knew Goering.
Yeah.

1249
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,400
Yeah.
So now interesting this is not

1250
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:54,800
mentioned in the Book of Esther
but in the in the Jewish

1251
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:59,300
Traditions about this, they say
that on the day that Hallman was

1252
01:23:59,300 --> 01:24:04,400
parading Mordecai through the
town that Hallman's daughter

1253
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:08,500
saw.
Mordecai being paraded and like

1254
01:24:08,500 --> 01:24:12,900
from an upper story window she
like empty to bed pan on on the

1255
01:24:12,900 --> 01:24:19,400
man who was leading me around
because you know she just wanted

1256
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,400
to disrespect whoever was
respecting, all right?

1257
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:24,900
And then he looks up and she
realizes that she just dumped

1258
01:24:24,900 --> 01:24:27,500
the chamber pot on her dad and
realize that her dad is being

1259
01:24:27,500 --> 01:24:31,000
humiliated by his enemy and she
commits suicide.

1260
01:24:32,300 --> 01:24:34,900
Wow.
So so here's a.

1261
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:43,700
So here's a Goering Goring
Goring Goring, so he's kind of

1262
01:24:43,700 --> 01:24:46,700
he's kind of, is represented by
his daughter, the daughter.

1263
01:24:47,100 --> 01:24:52,700
Yeah, which is interesting
because Goering is known to have

1264
01:24:53,300 --> 01:25:00,400
been a crossdresser, mmm, right.
So he's he's dressing in women's

1265
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:03,700
clothes, putting on makeup, it's
got his nails painted,

1266
01:25:03,700 --> 01:25:05,400
fingernails and toenails
painted.

1267
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,000
Addressing an effeminate clothes
changing.

1268
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:09,700
His outfit all the time.
Yep.

1269
01:25:09,700 --> 01:25:16,800
And so, so homens daughter,
commit suicide before before

1270
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:18,700
everything goes down in the ten
sons are hanging.

1271
01:25:18,700 --> 01:25:23,100
Wow.
I'm Goring likewise represents

1272
01:25:23,100 --> 01:25:27,400
that.
So now the the other 10 they're

1273
01:25:27,700 --> 01:25:33,000
convicted and sentenced and they
all asked to be shot because

1274
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:37,200
there They're military men.
They want to be Tried by firing

1275
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:44,100
squad but the court says no
we're not going to honor you

1276
01:25:44,100 --> 01:25:49,700
Lonnie with that way, we're
going to hang you 10 and and

1277
01:25:49,700 --> 01:25:58,200
actually the sentence is is
given in June of 45 and then

1278
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:01,200
there's all these appeals and
stuff that goes until October

1279
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:05,800
16th of 1946.
Which is interesting because

1280
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,900
that is the that is the last day
of Tabernacles, right?

1281
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:23,200
And so So another interesting
thing is in the Book of Esther

1282
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,600
you can't see anything like it
in the English but in the Hebrew

1283
01:26:29,500 --> 01:26:33,600
in the list of hummons ten Sons
there's three letters that are

1284
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:37,800
written very small for no
apparent reason.

1285
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:43,500
And the letters are table shin
and Zion.

1286
01:26:44,500 --> 01:26:49,400
And in in Hebrew the letters are
also numbers, right?

1287
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:51,800
Kind of like Roman numerals
aren't so.

1288
01:26:51,800 --> 01:27:00,100
But those Those letters actually
add up to that was, that is how.

1289
01:27:01,100 --> 01:27:06,900
If you're writing out numbers,
you would write 5707 which is

1290
01:27:06,900 --> 01:27:13,000
the, the Jewish year that these
10 Nuremberg.

1291
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,500
Criminals were hung.
Holy cow.

1292
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:23,700
Yeah, that's not so crazy.
It is crazy, isn't it now and

1293
01:27:23,700 --> 01:27:27,500
and Joseph close it.
Julius Julius streicher

1294
01:27:28,900 --> 01:27:34,500
actually.
When when he got up to the to

1295
01:27:34,500 --> 01:27:39,600
the platform to be hung, see if
I can find it.

1296
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:44,700
Yeah.
At the at the bottom of the

1297
01:27:44,700 --> 01:27:49,000
steps, he like just like
suddenly blurted out pile,

1298
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:53,500
Hitler and like shocked everyone
and then he gets up there and

1299
01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:56,200
says now I now I go to God.
God and there.

1300
01:27:56,300 --> 01:28:01,000
They put the bag over him and
and then suddenly, he screams

1301
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:09,500
out again, Perrine 1946.
And so he, he knew he recognized

1302
01:28:09,500 --> 01:28:13,100
this obvious connection that
would like, was being played

1303
01:28:13,100 --> 01:28:16,200
out.
And then, of course, those ten

1304
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:19,200
sons of Holman were all hung in
1946.

1305
01:28:20,900 --> 01:28:26,000
In the year 5707.
There are so many Things about

1306
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:30,900
this story that jumps out to me
write that are so applicable to

1307
01:28:30,900 --> 01:28:34,500
our day.
One is this idea of conspiracy,

1308
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:37,200
right?
Everything's in the shadows,

1309
01:28:37,300 --> 01:28:39,800
everything is happening behind
the scenes.

1310
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:40,800
Yeah.
Right.

1311
01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:47,900
I think we live in a time where
that's look, we'll just, we'll

1312
01:28:47,900 --> 01:28:51,000
just go ahead and use what's his
name?

1313
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:55,200
The guy who had the island.
That's seen, right?

1314
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:57,700
He just magically winds up.
Dead.

1315
01:28:57,900 --> 01:29:01,000
Hangs himself with a paper
sheet, right?

1316
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:05,000
Likewise we got all sorts of
intrigue going on right now.

1317
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:07,100
Balloons flying overhead.
Right?

1318
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:10,900
All this stuff happening?
At some point.

1319
01:29:10,900 --> 01:29:13,700
God's promises are going to
bring all this to light.

1320
01:29:14,100 --> 01:29:14,900
That's right.
Yeah.

1321
01:29:14,900 --> 01:29:17,100
We're gonna bring all the hidden
things.

1322
01:29:17,100 --> 01:29:20,100
All the stuff is going to come
to shout it from the rooftops

1323
01:29:21,300 --> 01:29:24,900
and so I thought Microcosm of
that exact story of Esther.

1324
01:29:24,900 --> 01:29:28,100
Microcosm of what I think we're
going through now.

1325
01:29:28,100 --> 01:29:31,200
And there's definitely parallels
back in the Book of Mormon, to

1326
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,800
the Gaddy and robbers.
Absolutely, and that kind of

1327
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:38,500
intrigued, but it all is going
to come out. the other thing

1328
01:29:38,500 --> 01:29:45,900
that jumps out to me is that the
Jewish people have suffered from

1329
01:29:46,100 --> 01:29:51,400
ancient hatred, right?
The hatred that seems to come

1330
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:58,700
around about once every 75 to
100 years for the Jews is just

1331
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:04,000
astounding, right?
And it lasts it never fully goes

1332
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:07,600
away and I've always said, if
you want to know where the

1333
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,500
world's at, look at how the
Jewish people are being treated

1334
01:30:12,300 --> 01:30:15,800
because I think it's Good.
Barometer of where the world is

1335
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:17,600
as far as instability.
Yeah.

1336
01:30:19,100 --> 01:30:24,300
And it lasts case in point.
I ran do you know what Iran

1337
01:30:24,300 --> 01:30:26,400
means in Farsi?
I don't.

1338
01:30:26,900 --> 01:30:32,000
Oh, you're gonna love this, so
and everyone, you can fact check

1339
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,200
me on this.
I've double triple quadruple

1340
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:43,400
checked it but just look it up.
So during WWII or right before

1341
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:48,000
World War Two, Iran was called
Persia Right?

1342
01:30:48,300 --> 01:30:55,300
Okay, the Third Reich officials
from the Nazi party, make a

1343
01:30:55,300 --> 01:31:02,400
journey out to Persia to try to
solidify places for transport

1344
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:07,200
because they're fighting a war
in Africa and Saudi Arabia and

1345
01:31:07,200 --> 01:31:11,300
they want to have access.
So they're going to go through

1346
01:31:11,300 --> 01:31:15,100
Persia, they have a grand
meeting, I mean there are

1347
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:18,200
slapping backs And he's like,
you know what?

1348
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:20,600
You guys should change your name
to Aryan?

1349
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:25,400
Double-check it get your phone
right now while we're on the air

1350
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:32,200
and translate Iran.
What does Iran mean in Farsi?

1351
01:31:32,500 --> 01:31:36,200
And it's Aryan.
Wow, it is craziness.

1352
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:41,100
And every time this happens, It
lasts forever.

1353
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:46,500
It doesn't go away fully Here it
is right here.

1354
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:52,700
What does Iran me?
The land of arienzo.

1355
01:31:52,700 --> 01:31:56,000
That's the Wikipedia article.
That's amazing and of Aryans.

1356
01:31:56,100 --> 01:31:58,500
Yeah, amazing.
Yeah, I knew that.

1357
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:02,900
Yeah.
That they were that the

1358
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:06,800
Ottomans, I guess sent ya.
Any of soldiers.

1359
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:08,700
Yes.
Support the Nazi efforts.

1360
01:32:08,700 --> 01:32:14,600
Yeah, and so I only bring that
up because You have to

1361
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:18,400
understand that the adversaries
never done and God made a

1362
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:23,400
promise to the Jewish people and
he keeps his promises.

1363
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:29,800
That's where the Savior came
down through and the adversary

1364
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,300
still bears.
That.

1365
01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:34,600
And so, if there's another thing
we can take away from this

1366
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:39,400
story, is that be be on the
lookout, right?

1367
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:43,100
When when you start seeing these
things come to pass and you

1368
01:32:43,100 --> 01:32:44,900
started.
Seeing more and more

1369
01:32:44,900 --> 01:32:50,500
anti-Semitism you can bet Global
unrest is at the door every

1370
01:32:50,500 --> 01:32:52,400
time.
Yeah, yeah.

1371
01:32:52,500 --> 01:32:57,700
That's yeah.
Israel is the Is the center

1372
01:32:57,700 --> 01:33:00,800
piece right there, linchpin for
the end days.

1373
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:04,300
Like it's the flashpoint right?
It is absolutely where it all

1374
01:33:04,300 --> 01:33:06,500
goes down.
So to speak.

1375
01:33:07,100 --> 01:33:17,000
So but awesome, good stuff.
Yeah, so so we are having So we

1376
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:19,900
are hat.
So this year premium is going to

1377
01:33:19,900 --> 01:33:24,700
be on the 7th and 8th, okay?
Of March and which is in the

1378
01:33:24,708 --> 01:33:27,400
middle of the week.
So we're actually having a party

1379
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:31,900
on the 11th.
So a couple days later but that

1380
01:33:31,900 --> 01:33:36,800
will be Saturday 4 p.m. you can
desire him.

1381
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:41,200
Le Foundation, Facebook page,
should have information about it

1382
01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:46,200
but it's a it's a costume party
because of all the disguises and

1383
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:50,800
secret things and also it'll be
a potluck and the potluck theme

1384
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:56,700
is foods that have hidden
middles okay.

1385
01:33:57,100 --> 01:34:05,100
So you know You know that peanut
M&M's or Eggrolls you know or

1386
01:34:05,100 --> 01:34:08,300
chimichanga something that's
cover up you can't see chunks on

1387
01:34:08,300 --> 01:34:10,600
the inside, jelly donuts.
Exactly.

1388
01:34:11,100 --> 01:34:15,200
Yep.
So you got the idea, pizza rolls

1389
01:34:16,100 --> 01:34:19,100
pot stickers.
Yeah, all that kind of stuff.

1390
01:34:21,100 --> 01:34:23,600
Fudge dipped Oreos, you know.
So what kind of costumes are

1391
01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:26,500
people dressing up?
Oh various.

1392
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:32,700
Oh, Come Various, I think I
mean, it's it's this is always

1393
01:34:32,700 --> 01:34:35,100
is out, there's always quite a.
Let me see.

1394
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:37,900
So last year, I'll tell you what
my family did.

1395
01:34:37,900 --> 01:34:41,100
So if I can remember all of
them, I probably won't be able

1396
01:34:41,100 --> 01:34:49,600
to remember all of them, but my
son was a dress up as a grenade.

1397
01:34:49,700 --> 01:34:51,300
He's a hand, grenade.
Nice.

1398
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:57,400
I was actually, this wasn't,
that was actually two years ago.

1399
01:34:57,500 --> 01:35:00,100
Anyway, it last He was a Jedi,
okay.

1400
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:03,300
I like to do kind of funny
things sometimes.

1401
01:35:03,300 --> 01:35:08,900
So the other two, this two years
ago I wore like a I cut out some

1402
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:13,400
like a fig Leaf out of paper and
made a little apron and then I

1403
01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:19,100
put put on my chest, some red
and blue balloons to of each

1404
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,200
with like electric charges
written on them.

1405
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:25,800
So it's like a helium.
Nice helium nucleus.

1406
01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:29,600
So but I had the the Fig leaves.
So as a helium.

1407
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:30,900
Atom.
Nice.

1408
01:35:30,900 --> 01:35:33,100
Yeah, nice.
How to make dumb stuff like that

1409
01:35:33,100 --> 01:35:36,100
but I was thinking about just
putting on my suit and falling

1410
01:35:36,100 --> 01:35:37,900
down and just pretend I'm Joe
Biden.

1411
01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:45,400
So my my I think it was my is
either my can't remember.

1412
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:48,100
Now my mother-in-law
father-in-law came a few years

1413
01:35:48,100 --> 01:35:54,400
ago and they had a, they had a
like a cereal box on their back.

1414
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:58,500
But it was like I'll paint it
all black and so they were they

1415
01:35:58,500 --> 01:36:01,200
said they were a refrigerator
magnet, nice.

1416
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:05,100
It looks like click them on
there anyway.

1417
01:36:05,500 --> 01:36:07,700
So a lot of we're just fun, you
know?

1418
01:36:09,500 --> 01:36:17,500
We People normally kind of avoid
the Halloween type Yen Gore and

1419
01:36:17,700 --> 01:36:20,400
and yeah, goblins and vampires
and stuff.

1420
01:36:21,700 --> 01:36:26,300
Traditionally.
A lot of you in Jewish circles

1421
01:36:26,300 --> 01:36:31,600
they like, encourage people to
dress up as a good characters.

1422
01:36:31,600 --> 01:36:34,500
Yeah.
As like profits or Esther or

1423
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:38,700
Mordecai people from the story,
things like that.

1424
01:36:38,700 --> 01:36:43,600
So so anyway, it's fun time.
You usually will will dress up

1425
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:46,500
will also play dice games.
Cass locks.

1426
01:36:46,500 --> 01:36:49,500
Yes, exactly.
So play bug and you know,

1427
01:36:49,500 --> 01:36:54,900
Yahtzee and 10,000 or Farkle or
whatever if you played any of

1428
01:36:54,900 --> 01:36:57,500
those games.
And and we'll also have like a

1429
01:36:57,508 --> 01:37:01,100
melodramatic reading of the
story of Esther.

1430
01:37:01,500 --> 01:37:06,700
So we won't read re cabinet in a
abbreviated version, so the kids

1431
01:37:06,700 --> 01:37:12,400
can follow along, we read the
story and, and We time Amon is

1432
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:16,300
mentioned, then everyone booze
and stamps their feet and went

1433
01:37:16,300 --> 01:37:18,300
after Mordecai are mentioned
that everyone.

1434
01:37:18,300 --> 01:37:22,000
Cheers and blows their noise
makers or whatever.

1435
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:27,700
Nice.
And so that's fun and and eat

1436
01:37:27,700 --> 01:37:29,700
our eat our foods with hidden
centers.

1437
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:32,900
I like it.
So it's fun time, awesome.

1438
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,600
Alright and when is that going
to be again?

1439
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:37,100
It's going to be March 11th.
That's Saturday.

1440
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,000
Okay.
And 4 p.m. is when we're going

1441
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:43,800
to kind of gather usually.
And play play games while food

1442
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,300
is preparing and then perfect.
Well, I'll go ahead and mention

1443
01:37:47,300 --> 01:37:50,200
that to a bunch until then and
we'll okay.

1444
01:37:50,500 --> 01:37:52,900
Travis good sport, dude.
It's always fun when you come

1445
01:37:52,900 --> 01:37:53,600
over.
Yeah.

1446
01:37:53,700 --> 01:37:55,300
So pleasure.
I love having you here.

1447
01:37:55,300 --> 01:37:58,500
So, all right.
Next one is, next one's going to

1448
01:37:58,500 --> 01:38:01,600
be Passover, Passover and
unleavened bread.

1449
01:38:01,700 --> 01:38:03,400
Awesome.
I can't wait for that one.

1450
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:05,500
That one's going to be epic.
I want to be big one.

1451
01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:07,500
All right, everyone.
Bye.

1452
01:38:21,500 --> 01:38:24,600
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