The True Sechel Is When You Have Bitachon in Hashem
And who gave Haman his advice? חֲכָּמָּיו וְזֶרֶש אִשְתוֹ His wise men and his wife Zeresh. All the smarties; and Zeresh is mentioned separately because she was known for her special brilliance! R' Yisroel Salanter Zatzal says that where Sechel stops Bitachon begins. People who work only with inborn Sechel are in for big trouble. Chazal say that Hashem gave the Yidden so much Chochma, Bina, De'ah and Sechel in order to use for Bitachon; this is the TRUE Sechel of: הַׁכֹל יָּכוֹל Hashem can do anything! ******
I heard an inspiring Shabbos Shuva Drasha from R' Gershon Liebman Zatzal, and he talked about Temimus. Be a Tamim without any fear “even from the Holocaust!” And he lived this! He would build Yeshivos in the ghetto under the Nazis, and his Simcha level was 1000% during the Holocaust. His Yahrzeit is כ"ט אדר א'. זְכוּתוֹ יָּגֵׂן עָּלֵׂינוּ, אָּמֵׂן His merit should protect over us, Amen. *******
When Purim came, Novardokers were more concerned about becoming a Mordechai! וּמָרְ דֳּכַי לֹׁא יִׂכְרַע וְלֹׁא יִׂשְתַחֲוֶׁה ג ב “Mordechai would not bend or bow down” was their motto. Notice how Mordechai is M'vazeh himself, screaming in the streets! (For sure, a lot of the Novardok “Shita” of “Pratim” comes from Mordechai, who was a major source of their Shita). ********
The Meforshim say that Mordechai and Esther were: מְתַׁקֵׂן repaired the sin of their ancestor Shaul HaMelech. Michal bas Shaul had complained to Dovid for being M'vazeh himself while dancing for Kavod Shamayim, and Dovid told her that the reason why her father had lost his Malchus to him was because he wasn’t willing to be M'vazeh himself for Kavod Shamayim. So now we have Mordechai being: מְתַקֵׂן repairing the sin of his Zeide by embarrassing himself B'rabim (in public) in order to save the nation of Hashem. *********
It also says: וּמָּרְ דֳּכַׁי לֹא קָּם וְלֹא זָּע אסתר ה ט Mordechai did not stand for Haman and he didn’t even budge. He had no Hispa'alus from Haman’s opinion of him; the exact opposite of Shaul, who said: כִי יָּרֵׂאתִי אֶת הָּעָּם וָּאֶשְמַׁע בְקוֹלָּם ש"א טו כד he was afraid of (the opinion of) the people. And Chazal say that the whole Klal Yisroel disliked Mordechai, yet Mordechai isn’t concerned; unlike Haman, who as soon as one Mordechai doesn’t bow down to him, he says: וְכָּל זֶה אֵׂינֶנּוּ שוֶֹה לִי אסתר ה יג “all my wealth and success is worthless to me”. And if Shaul HaMelech is so concerned about people’s opinion of him, then he is L'havdil similar to Amalek (Haman). So how could he be Zoche to wipe them out? **********
