"He who observes a mitzvah will know no evil thing" (Ecclesiastes 8:5)

Mordechai cried out about the decree during the time of chametz removal • Esther said that by engaging in mitzvot they would be saved until after Pesach • We will eliminate Haman through the rectifications of the Seder night • The Afikoman alludes to the splitting of the Sea of Reeds • Mordechai said it is forbidden to wait - the decrees must be annulled immediately • "The miracle was only through submission to the tzaddik"

"The Midrash says (Ecclesiastes Parsha 8) he who observes a mitzvah will know no evil thing, this is Esther who was engaged in the mitzvah of chametz removal"

Mordechai cried out about the decree during the time of chametz removal

"When Mordechai arrived at Esther's house, it was already after sunset. The decree was on the 13th of Nisan, and throughout the 13th they were occupied with writing and sealing the decree until it was already evening."

"And Mordechai began to cry out loud and bitter cries throughout the city while Esther was engaged in the mitzvah of chametz removal."

Esther said that by engaging in mitzvot they would be saved until after Pesach

"Esther said to him, why are you crying in the middle of chametz removal? Now I am cleaning the hundred rooms of the palace. He who observes a mitzvah will know no evil thing."

"We will also intend to eliminate Haman, after that will be the Seder night, we will drink four cups and 'And it is this that has stood for our fathers and for us' in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us, we will wait until after Pesach."

We will eliminate Haman through the rectifications of the Seder night

"Esther actually disagreed with Mordechai, the Midrash says Esther claimed we have time to start everything even after Pesach, now there will be the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, the Song of the Sea, Pharaoh's chariots and his army were cast into the sea, we will intend with the splitting of the Sea of Reeds on the Seventh Day of Pesach to drown Pharaoh."

"We will eliminate Haman through the rectifications of the Seder night, we will intend in the Song of the Sea to drown Haman."

The Afikoman alludes to the splitting of the Sea of Reeds

"The Midrash Rabbah says that here Mordechai understood more than Esther - "And Mordechai passed, Mordechai said to her this year there will be no Seder night, this year there will be no four cups, this year they will not eat the Afikoman."

"Because the Afikoman indeed alludes to the matter of the splitting of the Sea of Reeds because the arrow that splits the Afikoman in two is the gematria of 98 and twice arrow - gematria 196, Sea of Reeds."

"The Afikoman itself alludes to the splitting of the Sea of Reeds for at the time of the splitting of the Sea of Reeds then at that moment all the waters of the world were split and the noise went from one end of the world to the other."

Mordechai said it is forbidden to wait - the decrees must be annulled immediately

"Rabbi Natan explains that the entire miracle was through the submission that Esther had to Mordechai."

"Esther argued that all efforts could begin in a week's time, after all, the decree is for another 11 months, and Mordechai argued there is no such thing, it is forbidden to wait a single second, not only will there be no Seder night, there will be nothing! We must annul the decree now."

"No one will wait 11 months, when Hitler rose to power they began to kill Jews. When Hitler conquered Poland, they were already killing Jews in Ukraine, they did not wait for Hitler to come, they saw a Jew and killed him, the Ukrainians themselves would enter and shoot Jews, the world is lawless!"

"Mordechai said to her, listen, it is not as you think, the situation is catastrophic, they are beginning to kill Jews in the streets, the Midrash says they began to kill Jews in the streets."

"The miracle was only through submission to the tzaddik"

"Rabbi Natan explains that Esther, a woman who feared Hashem, was included from all the women in the world, just as Eve was included from all the righteous women until the end of all generations, and now she needed the miracle."

"The miracle could only be through Esther's submission to Mordechai - through her reaching such submission to Mordechai, not only submission as 'if I perish, I perish'."