27/02/2026
Nobody remembers the good guys.
Ask most people to name someone from the Purim story and they’ll say Haman. The villain. The one we boo. The one whose name we drown out with noise.
Not Mordechai. Not Esther. Haman.
Why?
Because Haman was loud. He demanded attention. He was impossible to ignore.
Esther was the opposite.
Quiet. Hidden. Her name literally means “concealment.” She spent years hiding who she really was: an orphan, a Jew, a woman with no real power of her own.
And yet.
When the moment came — when every Jew in the Persian empire was hours away from being wiped out — it was Esther who walked through that door. Alone. Uninvited. Knowing it could cost her everything.
Not the courage of someone with nothing to lose. The courage of someone with everything to lose, who walked in anyway.
Here’s the deeper thing. G-d’s name doesn’t appear once in the entire Megillah. Not once. The whole story looks like coincidence. A king who couldn’t sleep. A last-minute dinner invitation. Luck.
But it wasn’t luck.
It was G-d, quiet and hidden, working behind the scenes. Just like Esther.
The book isn’t called “Mordechai.” It’s called Esther. Because the real miracle wasn’t the one everyone could see. It was the hidden one. The private courage. The quiet hand of G-d arranging everything, just out of view.
This Purim, that’s the message for all of us.
You don’t have to be loud to matter. You don’t have to be fearless to act. You just have to walk through the door.
Chag Purim Sameach! 🎭🎉
Leah and I wish you and your family a joyful, meaningful Purim. If you’re in Surrey and would like to join our Megillah Reading or Purim celebrations this Monday night and Tuesday, we’d love to have you. Link in bio or visit chabadsurrey.com 👇
