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Remember when Mordecai says to Esther, you gotta go save us and she says, I'm too scared.

He doesn't say, oh my, whatever shall we do?

He simply says to her, Esty, Bubola, have you ever stopped to consider for this

moment that you are now the queen of the most powerful empire on the planet for this exact purpose?

And that is when her epiphany happens and she steps up to the plate and she saves us and porum teaches us

that we all are going to have in our lives these ester moments we are all going to have this there is

no coincidence dan we are each in exactly the place that we should be for our ultimate purpose

and when we have these situations or

missions that are presented to us that are sometimes going to be massive, but the issue is we're

not always going to have someone there unmasking it for us. We're not always going to have a

Mordecai saying, sweetheart, it is your time to shine. And the challenge is discovering and

unwrapping these moments, especially when they're scary. And I think that what Purim reminds us

is that the energy exists and is out there to recognize the hidden plans, the hidden plans for each of our unique

paths. And what we have to do, all of us, is open our eyes wide to find out what each of ours is. It's 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 25th in Snowy, New York City. It's midnight on Thursday, February 26th in Israel, where Israelis remain on high alert for a possible

conflict with Iran.

In his record-breaking state of the union address in terms of length, President Trump did address

the issue of Iran.

He emphasized that his priority remains diplomacy, but noted that while the regime, quote, wants a deal,

they so far have failed to say, quote, the secret words that Iran will abandon its enrichment program.

On this point, the president was unequivocal, saying that he will not allow the world's number one

sponsor of terror to attain nuclear weapons. Perhaps the most interesting framing of the Iran threat

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