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Chasidut do Estery 3:17

Flames of Faith

Amalek: An ancient nation that sought to destroy the Jews (see Exod. 16:8-16). They attacked the weakest members of Israel, the elderly and infirm, before the Jewish nation arrived at Sinai to receive the Torah. Haman was a member of this nation (see Esth. 3:1), and he tried to annihilate world Jewry during the reign of Achashveirosh.
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Kedushat Levi

Yet another way of looking at the line: ‎החודש הזה לכם ‏ראש חדשים‎; According to Rashi, Moses found it ‎difficult to know when exactly the precise moment ‎occurs when the moon’s orbit renews itself. G’d ‎therefore showed it to him. We need to examine what ‎exactly was the nature of Moses’ difficulty, i.e. why did ‎it matter to him to know the precise moment when ‎this renewal took place. Moses was interested that the ‎renewal of the moon to its original size and all that ‎this implies should occur during his lifetime. In other ‎words, he wanted the redemption that was about to ‎occur to be the final redemption, not a redemption ‎that would be followed by other exiles. Alas, G’d ‎showed him that this time had not come yet. ‎‎[This may have been the reason why the word ‎‎chodesh is spelled without the letterו ‏‎ ‎throughout the Bible except in Esther 3,7 where ‎possibly, it was meant to deceive Haman, Ed.]
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