Purim: The Secret To Healing Trauma - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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It's also dedicated by Freddy. You didn't put in your last name in gratitude for enriching each Yom Tov, every Shabbos and our day-to-day lives. Thank you so, so much. And dedicated by Rabbi Shmuel Katz in memory of his grandfather Harav Reb Hillel HaCohen ben Esther. The title of today's class is do we really want people to lose their minds on Purim? That's the title. So, that's going to be the topic. The subtitle is how Purim has the secret to dealing with trauma. You might even wonder what's the connection. So, that's why we'll have the class. So, let's begin with the first source. This is very, very well known. There is a Mishnayos that's dedicated to Purim called Maseches Megillah tractate Megillah. And it has also in it Gemara. So, the Gemara in tractate Megillah, Maseches Megillah daf zayin, page seven, zayin amud bet, 7b says, "Amar Rava said Who is Rava? Rava is one of the greatest Talmudic sages of his day. He lives in Babylonia in Bavel, present-day Iraq. Rava lives approximately 800 years after the story of Purim in the fourth and fifth century after the common era, already a few hundred years after the destruction of the second base of miktash. And he and his colleague Abaya constitute much of the discussions and conversations throughout Gemara. Hava is Abaya verava. So Amar Rava verava says, Rava said, "Michayev inish libasume bepuraya ad loyada bein arur Haman lebaruch Mordechai." Translation, a person is obligated to become inebriated or intoxicated on Purim until he is unaware of the difference between cursed is Haman and blessed is Mordechai. Lebasume is an Aramaic word. Rashi says it means lehishtaker bayayin, to become inebriated, intoxicated through drinking

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