As we watch the events all peoples can see and follow in these current times, Hashem is showing minute by minute that every moment of life is by divine gracious providence. Just as the story of Purim articulates across 10 chapters, which projected about 15 years of history, that each and every moment we can connect the dots of these miraculous events, to show that God runs the world and is rapidly advancing us as we come approach the Era of Redemption.
The Haman of the past had his present-day surrogate in Iran, the Persia of old. His name, like the name of his predecessor, is Homeini, the Haman of today. Like then this present-day Haman was eliminated.
Just as the old Haman had 10 sons who died with wim, so too the many proxies of Haman's Iran are also being eliminated. The big octopus will die with all his tentacles included.
If some maniac busy making a party that lasted a half a year, and then for another week of partying with his closest buddies, is this story of immoral partying by madmen worthy to be made as attentive details Jews must listen to while listening to the Megillah on Purim? That this king in power, while partying for the last week with his favorite ministers, wants to bring his wife to strip herself so his friends can gaze at his beautiful, naked wife, for all to see - is this what Jews must hear on Purim, of such lewd events that are well beyond Jewish perspective? Is this kind of lewd literature in our scripture have any value?
The Talmud tells us that Jewish law mandates that we hear every detail of these wierd stories. Why? Because each and every piece of these random moments are really dots that, were we to connect them, we'd see clearly how the entire mosaic includes all these pieces comprising the Hand of God manipulating all aspects of life, for all to see that the Jewish nation is coming back to its holy status among nations of the world, who will bring back to Earth the light of God.
Yechezkel (37:28)
And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, Who sanctifies Israel, when My Sanctuary is in their midst forever.
וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם כִּי אֲנִ֣י יְהֹוָ֔ה מְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בִּֽהְי֧וֹת מִקְדָּשִׁ֛י בְּתוֹכָ֖ם לְעוֹלָֽם
How can it be that "... the nations shall know"? How did Yechezkel know back when this verse was written, that the nations will know? Back then the best they could do to publicize a miracle was by writing it down and having scribes make copies of that "newspaper" and then sell it on the street. But all "the nations"?
Because back then this was indeed the prophesy. Even though more than 2,500 years ago they could not even fathom a technology as we have today of internet and cell phones, a landscape wherein the entire universe can experience at the same time, this is what the prophet was proclaiming to those gathered around him.
The Era of Redemption is swiftly overtaking us like a silent storm. Certainly this prophecy is today almost tangible.
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