Last night, Barcelona beat Paris Saint Germain in a Champions League game when all the odds were stacked against them. With just a few minutes remaining they needed to score 3 goals which they did in what people are calling one of the greatest sporting comebacks ever.
As we begin the Purim celebrations, we can see this element of “against the odds” in the Purim story too. How Esther was chosen as the Queen, how Mordechai was recalled and was elevated to almost royalty, while the Jews’ nemesis Haman was defrocked and eventually hanged – all these combined in ways which, on the face of it, seem to be “against the odds”.
Watch Rav Perez explain below:
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