By Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz – Principal of Beth Rivkah Academy for girls in Montreal, Canada
Pertaining to the special auspicious day of 23 Sivan, when the decree of Haman was annulled (Megilas Esther 8:9), the Rebbe spoke at length on Parshas Shlach, 23 Sivan, 5743, that it applies also to our times, while we are still in Golus.
Part of what the Rebbe said:
“When it will be ‘mentioned’ properly, it will actually ‘happen’ again anew. It will happen quickly and be brought down למטה מטה (below, below)”.
“It will be והעיר שושן צהלה ושמחה that not only the Jews in Shushan will celebrate, but the whole city in general, and ליהודים היתה אורה ושמחה וששון ויקר.”
We witnessed now the tremendous miracles, and downfall of “Haman”, in the same country (Persia – Iran), בימים ההם בזמן הזה, right after 23 Sivan (when final planning took place)! And the bombs came down למטה מטה “below, below”!
I found an amazing thing in Targum Sheini (8, 15), when Mordechai met Esther at that time, he told her the Possuk ברוך השם, שלא נתננו טרף לשיניהם (Blessed is Hashem who did not permit us to be prey for their teeth), and Esther replied with the possuk עזרנו בשם השם, עושה שמים וארץ (Our help is in the name of Hashem, the Maker of heaven and earth). Both pesukim are from the Rebbe’s kapital Tehillim of this year (קכד)!
May the Rebbe’s words come true, as he said in his sicha: “When one properly ‘remembers’ the events of the 23rd of Sivan, then all those matters are ‘renewed’!”
“For the Jews there was light, joy, gladness, and honor”—so may it be for us!
Copy the hebrew word of the Sichah.
Thanks
pg 13: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17jyVWFFLAPORYvCYSppxl1fvK147TTYO/view
Thank you for sharing.
The 23rd…Purim…there was joy, gladness…
This Shabbos when it was Shabbos Mevorchim…we say the same thing in shul when blessing the new month…there will be joy and gladness…
And we all said the entire Tehilim…for some of us it takes all day! I couldn’t nap and kept saying Tehilim …not knowing that at that moment our Tehilim was surely assisting in the mission BH.