A short Purim message from Rabbi Chaim Mintz for Oorah's families.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
we're hoping that we're all getting into the poor spirit some people make a big mistake they think performance for kids they don't realize performance for adults the kids and the children that we uh show them what Purim is all about is only to get them ready for what to be adults that they'll be able to use the opportunity of Purim to the highest extent possible Just one thought about Purim we have to realize that we've talked told that all the other holidays will be will be stopped at a certain time when mashir comes there'll be such great joy of the new holidays that will overshadow the old holidays the Purim will always be forever will never become overshadowed by any other holidays we have to understand why Purim wasn't even in the terror holiday it was it was made later by Mordechai Nester in the high court of that time what's the special about Purim so I'll give you an example people at a wedding there's a great joy in dancing and there's a great joy in dancing and singing at the wedding and all the people are having a wonderful time and some of the older people sitting in at the table at the wedding are enjoying themselves but they have that feeling themselves but they've been into a lot of weddings in their lifetime not all of them ended up so great some of them ended up in disaster and they say look everybody's rejoicing what's this wedding going to be about well this wedding end up to be a happy one we'll have to show them maybe not but 50 years later when this bride and
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- 0:00we're hoping that we're all getting into the poor spirit some people make a big mistake…
- 0:31will be stopped at a certain time when mashir comes there'll be such great joy of…
- 1:02there's a great joy in dancing and singing at the wedding and all the people are…
- 1:33but 50 years later when this bride and groom are celebrating the 50th Anniversary golden anniversary…
- 2:04tranquility and and and and and and and Good Feeling then everybody feels this was a…
- 2:34to the Jewish people it was time for rejoicing but Purim is a time of Godless…
- 3:04we're close to Hashem close to God no matter what we do no nobody no matter…
- 3:35make such a great celebration of Purim because it's overshadows the other holidays because it shows…
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