The Deeper Meaning of Purim and of Jewish Holidays in general

The videos are listed individually below:

from: "Avi Rab" Youtube channel.

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Topics:

* Videos 1-4: The special energy of the holiday and how to attach ourselves to it; the significance of the name of the holiday as reflecting its energy; Joseph and Mordechai.

* Videos 5 & 6: Astrology: The Jewish attitude as it emerges from the Joseph story (and the story of Esther/megillah)

* Video 7: Overview: Guide to the megillah (especially for those reading to an audience of beginners)

Videos 1-4: The special energy of the holiday; how to attach ourselves to it; the significance of the name of the holiday as reflecting its energy; Joseph and Mordechai.

Video #1: Only 90 seconds:

A Jewish Holiday is not "a celebration of a past event" but rather "an opportunity to tap into a recurring spiritual energy"

Explanation: Watch this very brief video:

1:29 : Topic: "Kabbalistic energy-channels: Tapping into the cyclical spiritual energy of Jewish holidays"

[To stress the major point I repeated it a few times, sorry if you find it reptitive...]

Videos 2 & 3: What's the specific spiritual energy of this particular holiday (Purim)?

And what can we do in order to attach to it?

Video #2: Only 3.5 minutes:

Topic A: The Masked Purim God: Clear but subtle indications of God's relevance in the supposedly "God-absent" megillah story.

Topic B: The protagonists were appealing to non-natural powers: Divine inspiration vs the power of chance + the supernatural/magic"

See note at bottom of page with link to a relevant Hollywood movie scene.

Topic C: How WE can reflect the above on Purim, in order to better tap in to its special energy.

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Video #3: 10.5 minutes: The first 30 seconds are slides.

Topic A: Why is the holiday named "Purim"? What's the significance of that in terms of the holiday's special energy?

Topic B: "Divine Guidance, Free Willed choice, Teshuva & Morality vs Magic, Fate, randomness, Power-worship & astrology"

Topic C: Mentioned briefly, expounded upon more explicitly in the next videos: Parallels to the Joseph story, and the Biblical view of Astrology that emerges from thiese stories.

In the Hollywood film "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Nazis - (who of course embody the power of Haman in that they wanted to physically annihilate every single Jew) - find the ark of the Temple and intend to use its power to conquer the world (and to destroy the Jews).

However, what they do not comprehend is that the Ark's power is rooted in the divine and cannot be manipulated to serve Evil. The movie-Nazis are mistaken in thinking it is a neutral power - like magic or the supernatural - to be used however one wishes, and indeed in the movie the energy destroys them instead. The ark's power is meant for God-directed and ethical action, not for the achievement of worldy ends , and of Power itself. In this sense the film illustrates the Purim-like struggle between the pagan conceptions of the supernatural as a tool to be used to further human aims (like Hmana's use of 'lottery') , vs the Biblical conception of God, and the spiritual

Video #4: 6 minutes:

Joseph and his great-nephew Mordechai: incredible parallels between the Joseph story and Megillat Esther

(Perhaps Benjamin's descendant Mordechai was deliberately channeling the energies created by his ancestor and great uncle, and this enabled his success, and instituting the holiday annually meant making this energy accessible to all descendants.)

ADVANCED: videos 5&6

Interested in Astrology and the Biblical attitude to it? Watch the next two videos:

VIDEO #5: 2.5 minutes

"Kabbalistic Astrology: Divine guidance over Fate (illustrated by the Biblical Joseph story)"

Video #6: 3 minutes

"Biblical Jewish Metaphysics: aspects illustrated by the Joseph story and the megillah"

video #7: Guide to the Megillah:

Suggested explanations for a megillah program geared to "beginners"

10:42 Advanced: Megillat Esther, chapter by chapter: to learn, and to use as material for teaching

END OF WEBPAGE

the material below is unedited

see more video on the playlist

Avi RabKabbalistic meaning of Biblical stories

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Purim, Joseph, Kabbalistic astrology videos editing on Youtube channel also the channel itself

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Editing my Purim & Joseph youtube videos, on channel "avi rab"

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MegillahEstheradd as needed to parallels between Mordechai and Yosef

add as needed to parallels between Mordechai and Yosef,

The overall underlying theme: both stories seem natural, there is no mention of God speaking or acting anywhere in the story, there are no prophecies or visions, yet the protagonists are clearly aware of the divine level operating, and the story clearly implies miraculous divine intervention.

King is perplexed by something, summons his advisors, one suggests what to do (Yosef was just asked for an interp and also offered advice to P; A openly asked for advice what to do)

The essential fact of a Jew rising to prominence due to his timely intervention/advice.

The protagonist (Esther/Yosef) is taken by force, must serve the king or his ministers; liked by all, they are helped, and rise (Esther by the sarisim, Yosef by the master); both are unusually beautiful(unusual ‘chen’), and this is part of the plot (Esther is chosen by A, Yosef is solicited/accused by his master’s wife).

Story is told by an omniscient narrator: We are told of Pharaoh’s emotions (vatipa’em rucho), we are told of the hatered and jealousy of the brothers which is not necessarily ever revealed by them, maybe not even known to them! We are told of Reuven’s inner motivation to save Yosef. Etc.

Jews operating in hostile territory under deep cover: Esther did not reveal her identity just like Yosef did not reveal his identity to Pharaoh.

Bowing gets the central character in trouble: it is a central issue in both stories:

in Joseph’s dreams, and then the brothers actually bow;

Mordechai refises to bow, but the other Jews do, and Haman wants to kill all the Jews bec of Mordechai

Haman gets A to decree killing all the Jews, a later pharaoh decrees that all the male child Jews should be killed. In both cases no rational reason is given.

In both situations the Jews are saved by palace insiders.

Gather all the Jews

Joseph tells his brothers to bring the rest of the family

Note: In Yosef story it is all dreams, in Megillah no dreams (except in the non-canonical version of the story, where M has dreams) – but much of the key action of coincidence etc takes place in middle of the night, when A can’t sleep, instead of a dream he has “the book of memories” read to him! And then he hears Haman in the courtyard at that hour! Preparing the tree for Mordechai?! And he entraps Haman, Haman is in dream that turns into a nightmare. The entire story turns about from that moment on. All this is like coincidence, but it is the hand of God.

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VIEW THIS VIDEO FIRST: Tapping into the cyclical spiritual energy of the Jewish Holydays: Purim

by Avi Rab

11 months ago

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Jewish Holydays are not celebrations of past events, they are vehicles for tapping in to energies created by events long ago, and available to us now

VIEW THIS VIDEO FIRST: Tapping into the cyclical spiritual energy of the Jewish Holydays: Purim

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Jewish Holydays are not celebrations of past events, they are vehicles for tapping in to energies created by events long ago, and available to us now

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Happy Purim!

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God's masked intervention in Esther's megillah; divine inspiration/action vs magic&the supernatural

by Avi Rab

11 months ago

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Published on Mar 12, 2014

God's presence is masked in the Purim story as recounted in the biblical megillah of Esther. However it is clear form the text itself that all the protagonists understood that the events were not natural. Haman attempted to manipulate the supernatural realm whereas Mordechai and Esther appealed to divine intervention.

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Kabbalistic Astrology: revealed by the TRUE interpretation of Joseph's dreams

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Beware! Dream interpretation affects its actuation. It is not the dream which has the power, it is our free willed choice in how to interpret dreams which is the causative element.

The stars do NOT rule, they are for the service of humanity, as stated in the creation account in Genesis. And the stars do not decree Fate: humans rule the Fates and thus the stars, via divine guidance, which is activated via acknowledgement of the divine level, and self-sacrificing free-willed choice of ethical/moral behavior.

Joseph did NOT dream that his brothers would bow to him but that the STARS would, and the stars DID bow to him, in the sense that Joseph circumvented Fate and the Seasons: the 7 years of drought/famine.

The brothers misinterpreted the dream and caused their own bowing to occur - it happened not because of the dream but because of their misinterpretation of it. A more charitable mindset would have had them understand the portent of Joseph's role, and their people's entire history in Egypt would have been different.

Note that Joseph's brother Benjamin did not participate in this interpretation, and indeed he in fact did not bow, and it is therefore interesting to note that his descendant, Mordechai of the biblical purim story, did not bow to Haman.

Note: This video about Joseph's dreams and his brothers' mis-interpretation of them is contained within the 7.36 minute video "Magic, randomness and astrology", so if you already heard that one, you can skip this video.

Biblical Karma: https://files.nyu.edu/air1/public/bib...

unatum Metaphysics and Genesis: https://files.nyu.edu/air1/public/Qua...

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Magic, randomness and astrology vs Kabbalistic divine guidance in the Joseph and Mordechai stories

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Kabbalistic insight into the Biblical story of Joseph, and Mordechai of the story of Esther. The stars bowed to Joseph (due to his appeal to divine inspiration) and not the reverse, and Mordechai knew that all events unfolded via God, and did not bow to Haman, the great magician of randomness.

Note: This video contains within it the brief video about Joseph's Dreams, from about 4:30-5:50, so if you already heard that one, you can fast forward.

Purim Megillah video editing,notes re Youtube versions from last year

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