העורך Editor

Scott Horton, of course (the wizard from this unforgettable moment).

Read it here… 

Maybe it’s long, but you can simply read on until you are convinced, then stop.

As he says regarding the American encirclement via NATO:

Over and over we can see that not just the guys at Antiwar.com and the Cato Institute, but many of the greyest and supposedly wisest of all the grey beards at the Council on Foreign Relations, academia, and the State and Defense departments, warned from the 1990s up to recent times, in the strongest language available what was likely to happen.

Again, the first enlightening background story to what we can almost term an American-Russian Proxy War…

To prevent chaos (not anarchy!), see Bava Metzia 83b.

Also, the Medrash says they were planning on pinning the crime on Esther.

See more on TakiMag…

UPDATE: Here it is.

How does the paytan know? And didn’t Mordechai receive the estate?

You may have heard the attempted “resolutions by Rambam” of a Goy’s children being “Kinyan Kaspo”, etc. etc.

An elegant translation in Rabbi Hirsch’s Siddur (p. 688) negates the question.

כְּרוֹת קוֹמַת בְּרוֹשׁ בִּקֵּשׁ
אֲגָגִי בֶּן הַמְּדָתָא
וְנִהְיָתָה לוֹ לְפַח וּלְמוֹקֵשׁ
וְגַאֲוָתוֹ נִשְׁבָּתָה
רֹאשׁ יְמִינִי נִשֵּׂאתָ
וְאוֹיֵב שְׁמוֹ מָחִיתָ
רֹב בָּנָיו וְקִנְיָנָיו עַל הָעֵץ תָּלִיתָ

The Aggagite, son of Hamedatha, sought to cut down the lofty pine. But it becam his own snare and his arrogance was broken. The head of the Binyaminite You did raise, but the name of the foe You blotted out, of his sons and of the abundance of his wealth; and him You hanged upon the gallows.

I’m only telling you, of course. No need to change the Purim Torah!