Purim: The Hidden Face
The deeper meaning of Purim — how the salvation of the Jewish people came through the hidden hand of G-d within nature, and how the joy of the day reaches the very essence of the soul.
18 May 2026 Audio
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Theme
Redemption, the coming of Moshiach, and the transformation of the world.
14 shiurim
The deeper meaning of Purim — how the salvation of the Jewish people came through the hidden hand of G-d within nature, and how the joy of the day reaches the very essence of the soul.
Insights and 'tidbits' for Pesach — the inner meaning of leaving Mitzrayim, the matzah of faith, and the personal exodus from our own narrow places into freedom.
A journey through the Megillah — Achashverosh and Esther, concealment and revelation — read as a map of the soul's relationship with the hidden King.
The opening of the maamar Hayosheves Baganim — the soul as the beloved 'who sits in the gardens,' and the yearning between G-d and the Jewish people.
Continuing the maamar — the gardens of Torah and tefillah in which the soul dwells, and how the Divine voice calls to be heard.
Sivan is the month of the giving of the Torah on Shavuos — a wedding of G-d and Israel, marked by unity, the number three, and the humility of a low mountain.
The longing of the soul in exile and the ways it seeks reunion with its Source.
How the friends 'listen to your voice' — the interplay of the soul, the angels, and the Divine desire to hear the voice of Israel.
Av holds both the deepest descent — the Three Weeks and the churban of the Beis HaMikdash on Tisha b'Av — and the seed of the greatest ascent, the comfort of Nachamu and the promise of the final redemption.
The culmination of the maamar — 'flee, my beloved' — the soul's plea to hasten the redemption and the revelation of the final geulah.
Cheshvan, the only month with no holidays, is the month of bringing Tishrei's light into ordinary life. As the eighth month it is the month of the supernatural — the month of Moshiach and the future third Temple.
Kislev is the month of trust and of light — of Chanukah and the 19th of Kislev, the New Year of Chassidus. It reveals the inner, mystical dimension of Torah, like oil that lights up the darkness.
Tevet begins with the last lights of Chanukah, whose glow helps reveal the hidden good (Tov) in the cold and in life's challenges. Its avodah is to heal the 'evil eye' and to learn to see the good in others and in ourselves.
'When Adar enters, we increase in joy.' Adar is the month of Purim — of the hidden face of G-d in nature, of miracles disguised as chance, and of a joy that breaks past every limit.