Hashem is talking to us, to all of us, and always.
(I was moved by a 4-minute story for Parshas Pekudei about Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Riminov, as told by Rabbi Fyvel Shuster.)
If this manner of viewing events seems presumptuous, see our previous article here.
I saw the following with my own eyes (אי לא הואי התם לא הימני):
A veteran, experienced foreman was busy operating an expensive (and potentially lethal) heavy machine that required close human supervision during operation. He was in his sixties, Jewish, and married. He was also irreligious and antagonistic toward observant Jews.
Then, an irreligious lady from the office came over to ask him something. And this veteran, hardboiled-Israeli completely forgot what he was in the middle of, and got distracted, answering at great length. He even sauntered off deep in discussion with the same lady — while the machine was still busy working! — presumably, to continue a “work-related” discussion. (He was neither depending nor counting on me being there.)
An agonizing few minutes later, he returned and profusely admitted his mistake to me (the professional mistake, that is).
(I don’t have Ruach Hakodesh so I don’t know if the woman was attractive.)
Nothing bad happened that time, but…
(I omit my own role in the story.)
Scott Horton, of course (the wizard from this unforgettable moment).
Maybe it’s long, but you can simply read on until you are convinced, then stop.
As he says regarding the American encirclement via NATO:
Over and over we can see that not just the guys at Antiwar.com and the Cato Institute, but many of the greyest and supposedly wisest of all the grey beards at the Council on Foreign Relations, academia, and the State and Defense departments, warned from the 1990s up to recent times, in the strongest language available what was likely to happen.
Again, the first enlightening background story to what we can almost term an American-Russian Proxy War…
To prevent chaos (not anarchy!), see Bava Metzia 83b.
Also, the Medrash says they were planning on pinning the crime on Esther.