Living with Light: Shushan Purim

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So today is Shushan Purim, the 15th of Adar. And in the city of Jerusalem, they are observing PM today. Uh I guess by now they're probably basically done, but um but it's a very unique concept that there are different days for Porim for different places. we have almost a similar thing when it comes to almost a similar thing when it comes to Yamtiff but it's very different in uh in the diaspora outside of Israel each of the for most of the of the holidays we keep two days while in Israel they keep one day but that is you know something very specific that had to do with doubts about what was the proper day that's why we end up keeping two days this is very different here um and that's that's by the biblical ical holidays. This was a purim was enacted by the man of the purim was enacted by the man of the Greek assembly by Morai and Esther. And it seems that originally in the original enactment they set it up that different places would celebrate it on different days. And the question is why would they do that? And how do we delineate who who keeps PM on the 14th of Adar and who keeps PM on the 15th of Adar? So our story really begins back in Adar? So our story really begins back in the migilla in the ninth chapter where they are going to battle with their enemies, those who are attacking them amongst the Persians and others and uh and let's take a look in chapter nine how things play out. So, so following the battle on the 13th of Adar in chapter 9:12, it says that the

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1. 0:03So today is Shushan Purim, the 15th of Adar. And in the city of Jerusalem, they…
2. 4:44celebrated and made the 14th into a day of feasting and joy. And then in verse…
3. 9:55beginning of that it's not just that celebrates on the 15th the Mishna says it's the…
4. 15:08it's something that was left out but we have them we have collections of them and…
5. 19:49that verse. The verse was um verse 20. And Morai wrote these matters. He sent letters…
6. 25:03Jerusalem Talmet and this I did put on the source sheet and the Yami says places…
7. 30:09happened in the city of Shushan that was the capital that's where was that's where Morai…
8. 34:54be that at the time of of Porum there was a there was a a desire…
9. 40:12going to keep celebrating this year after year. But that was only the people in the…
10. 45:21of Aratisra because that's where the most Jews were at this point. So although they were…

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