The Minchas Elozor of Munkacsz told the following story:
The Arizal testified that he witnessed the entire heavenly host – the pamalya shel maala – all go together to hear the deroshos of Rav Moshe Alshich and therefore he also went to hear his holy words when he sat and sermonized in public.
One time, the Arizal was present when Rav Moshe Alshich was giving a derosha about Lovon HaArami and how he swindled, tricked and hoodwinked Yaakov. The pasuk says he cheated Yaakov aseres monim (Bereishis 31:8 & 31:41) and this, explained the Alshich, meant ten times ten, or a hundred times over! He then proceeded to explain and detail each of the hundred ways in which Lovon cheated Yaakov this way and that. The audience sat mesmerized and transfixed, enjoying the derosha and how the Alshich enumerated again and again the tricks that Lovon had employed against Yaakov one hundred different ways. During this derosha, the Arizal laughed and left.
