There are no coincidences in this world. Everything that happens went exactly as planned and, in many cases, the themes and storylines rhyme over generations.

It is no surprise that Ayatollah Khamenei—this generation’s Haman—was finally put down on Shabbos Zachor where the Jewish people are instructed to remember what Amalek did as we left Egypt. The spirit of Amalek, the archetypal enemy of the Jewish people, will never die unless and until Moshiach comes. So in every generation, we make it a point to remember Amalek and to identify him to ensure his defeat. For Khamenei to face justice when he did was nothing short of perfection.

And so was the date in which he did meet his end: 11 Adar. The first Mishnah of Tractate Megillah makes plain that the first plausible date that the Jewish people can read Megillas Esther is on 11 Adar. There, the Jewish people recall the legendary heroics of Mordechai and Queen Esther in exposing Haman’s plot to exterminate the Jews in the Persian Empire. Queen Esther combined diplomacy, strategy, thoughtful communal prayer, and uncompromising faith in G-d to exact vengeance on the Amalek of her time to serve as a blue print for the Jews of the Diaspora to defeat the Amalek of........

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