Moses was Born with Challenges

When Moses was born, he faced great challenges. On the day of his birth, his life was in the utmost danger. The Pharaoh had decreed that all boys born in Egypt on that day must be thrown into the Nile River and drowned. Pharaoh was determined for the Israelites not to be redeemed by the boy who would be born on that day. So much so, that he sacrificed the sons of his own people in order to bring harm on the Israelites. Incredibly, this is a type of hatred that we have seen displayed in our own time.

Approximately 1035 years later, Haman cast lots for a month in which to destroy the Jews. He rejoiced that it fell in Adar,[1] for he imagined that it was an “unlucky” month for them. Why? Because their leader Moses died on the 7th of Adar.

He did not take into account that Moses was born on the 7th of Adar. At the time of his birth, Moses faced the greatest challenge of his life. Nevertheless, he was miraculously saved from that challenge. Likewise, the Jews in the time of Haman were faced with the greatest challenge in their history − before or since. Yet with the help and inspiration from Esther and Mordechai (“Mordechai in his generation was like Moses in his generation”),[2] they  were saved from Haman’s evil plan, and the festival of Purim was instituted by Esther and Mordechai.

Footnotes:

[1] Book of Esther, ch. 3

[2] Midrash Esther Rabbah 6:2.