You’re posting now because Yom Kippur is Ki-Purim, “Like Purim” ie, Purim is even “higher” than Yom Kippur, so to speak.
Interesting points.
Who is Matthew though? ;)
The fellow at the beginning who wrote,
Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation (genesis) of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
God has no beginning, but somehow that basic message in the first verse got missed. Imagine if some mathematician made a mistake in step 1. Everything following after is only as good as the result in step 1. Then after an awesome display of numbers on the board in which he has deduced so much, everyone is too impressed and committed to notice that 2 x 3 = 6, not 5, or some such.
In the Christian order of books, it follows these last lines:
Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
One man's catastrophe is another man's opportunity, a curse to one is a blessing to another. Same thing, different perspective.
More in that day-like-Purim of flipped over stories, when there's enough wine (secrets) flowing such that curses or blessings, Haman or Mordecai, Esav or Jacob... it's all the same.
It all started at the gate, where Mordecai overheard a plot about overthrowing the king: sha'ar, 570 =
יעקב הוא עשו
It was the first Purim costume, after all. :)
Purim is forever. Diaspora central (NYC), and America on the larger scale is where Esav and Jacob blend together and coexist as fellow Americans and nobody even notices the "impossibility" of that.
It reminds me of those stories where it turns out that long lost siblings or other close relatives discover that they have been neighbors or coworkers for years already. The last thing on their minds is their differences; they only want to embrace and rejoice and cry their eyes out. And marvel at the hand of God who set them down together in the same place.
Hosea 2
1.And the number of the people of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor counted; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God:
2. Then shall the people of Judah and the people of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel:
What a view. Merry New Year!