Saul and Mordechai: The holiest level of completely hating evil
Listen to this, this is a very strong thing. Amalek is the symbol of evil. G-d says you have to wipe out evil from the world. This is the craziest thing that happened. Did you know that Saul was holier than David? Saul was really the holy of holiest. It was only because Saul broke the way, that David later became king. Saul was the first Jewish king, and he really brought G-d’s kingdom down to the world.
The great Maharal always says that something which is very very holy cannot take time, because it’s too holy. A very holy thing is just like a one shot. Saul’s kingdom couldn’t last. It was Just like G-d shot an arrow down to the world, and he paved the ground for the kingdom of David, which is the kingdom of the Messiah. G-d never told King David to wipe out evil, or King Solomon to wipe out evil. The only one G-d told to wipe out evil was Saul. Saul wiped out evil, the only one he didn’t kill was Agog, the king.
And if you remember the story, he let Agog stay one night and that one night he got himself a slave girl and had children, and Haman came from it. What went wrong there?
Saul was so humble and he hated evil to the utmost, he really hated it. He thought–who am I? I am nothing. He looked at the people and they didn’t hate evil yet. So he realized the time was not yet right to wipe out Amaleik because the people were not on the level yet.
After he didn’t kill Agog, the Prophet Samuel comes to him and said — you might be very small in your own eyes, but you’re the head of the Jewish people. What does that mean? Saul really thought he is the tail. He thought that everybody was higher than him. But Samuel says, no, you’re top. It’ all judged by you not by them. You really reached the level, the holiest level of completely hating evil…
The second one who reached the level of completely hating evil was Mordechai. And Mordechai, according to Chassidus, was the soul of king Saul that came back.
Transcribed by Donna Anderson Maimes for the Holy Beggars’ Gazette. Please do not use this in any commercial manner without the family’s permission.
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