On Purim, we celebrate the great salvation of the Jewish people from the hands of Haman and the Persian kingdom, which wanted to annihilate all the Jews in the world. And the striking thing about the Megillah, the Book of Esther, which we read on Purim, is that the name of God is absent from that book. It does not mention the name of God anywhere in the Megillah. The reason for that is because at that time, God appeared to be hidden and everything looked hopeless until the salvation of God came upon us and we were saved.
I think the same thing holds true today, where we find ourselves in what seems to be a hopeless situation, where God is hidden. We have 134 hostages or more in Gaza being tortured on a daily basis, seemingly no hope. We have Jewish soldiers fighting Hamas and tragically dying, and seemingly we aren’t victorious yet against Hamas. We have Hezbollah raining rockets on us in the north, and the situation looks hopeless.
But the message of Purim is that it’s not hopeless.
Just like it looked like it was hopeless, like God was hidden, and yet we had our salvation on Purim, so too, this year, hopefully, even though it looks like God is hidden and things look hopeless, we should also be blessed to merit having a complete salvation this year, just like we did in the days of Mordechai and Esther in Purim.
