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The story of Purim is full of “coincidences”, actually small miracles which led to the complete survival of the Jewish people against all odds. The story of Purim actually took place over a few years, and had we not put it all together into one story we probably would see it merely as a random chain of events rather than Hashem’s hidden hand in saving us. And I believe Purim is a metaphor for life in general. Our life happens seemingly slowly, event after event, and only after we look back at 120 years can we see how actually these events were actually nothing more than from the hand of Hashem. Hashem is hidden in this world unless we attune ourselves in seeing everything from a spiritual perspective. And it couldn’t be any other way, or we would have no reason for existing. The whole challenge of our life is to recognise the G-dliness in everything, despite what appears contrary to it and despite what our yetzer hara tries to convince us as otherwise. Were Hashem to be revealed, we would have no true free choice, and we would be no different to animals who simply do what they were created to do and angels who have no choice to do anything else. So on Purim we not only recognise G-d being hidden, but we celebrate it, for that’s what gives us our challenge and our purpose as human beings, and we can rest assured that G-d is in our lives intervening whether we recognise it or not.