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Day 280: The People of the Covenant (2022)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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Is the Holocaust a Good Thing?

In Esther 9 and following, the Jews are able to take vengeance upon those who had sought to kill them. Even in the book of Esther, even while the Jews took vengeance, right, which defending themselves, it reveals that they also showed restraint. It says a couple times that, yep, they slew 300 men in Sussa,. They slew 500 men the day before and then 75,000, I believe, around the surrounding villages. And that reveals something very core: The self-defense of the Jews on this, what is now come, the Feast of Perm. But they didn't go beyond merely taking vengeance or establishing justice, essentially, fighting back. That shows a

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