Purim: Why & How — Revealing the Hidden

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

Okay. Shalom. Um, Purim, the highest, holiest, most powerful, beautiful, spiritual day of the year or the most disgusting, deport party of the year. [snorts] And it's all about two things. Why and how? Why and how? Why are you doing what you're doing? And how are you doing it? So if you're just if you think of Pim and you're like party we're gonna I'm gonna go in Tel Aiv on the first day come back to Jerusalem second day double day two day party man don't even start drinking because that's not what Pum is Pum is not a two-day party you crazy Pum is the holiest day of the year pum is the day of the year where you can reveal spirituality that's within yourself reveal your soul and reveal God in the world. It's very very high holy day. So don't this is these are the high holy days. You think the high holy days are rashi yonipur but really purim they're the highest holiest days. Why is that? Because we can do on purim within the physical world what we do on yonipur when we're just in sh and praying and fasting and we can do it through eating food and through the world. So there's four main mitzvah four main on they all begin with menus [snorts] and they're very very very special mitzvah. The first thing we have to understand which is incredibly powerful. I don't know if people really understand this but Purim has mitzvah for each of the main relationships in Judaism. We have been that means between you and yourself, between you and your fellow and between you and Hashem. So the mitzvah between us and Hashem is the migilla reading the mig and it really migra means the scroll of est but it really means to reveal the

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1. 0:00Okay. Shalom. Um, Purim, the highest, holiest, most powerful, beautiful, spiritual day of the year or…
2. 2:09hidden. And what are we doing? We're revealing Hashem in this world, which is the whole…
3. 4:55nama, the soul comes down into a body. Doesn't really want to be here. Didn't choose…
4. 7:00then I realized I learned my lesson. Bad idea. So, I stand there without my gorilla…
5. 9:39party, man, bad, you messed it up. You're not drinking to get wasted. That's not the…
6. 12:19dast the tree of the knowledge of good good and evil Adam and Eve in gin…
7. 14:25Purim is dress up as good. Morai and Esther and give. That's what we're doing. So…
8. 17:06it's an amazing thing. So we have two. We have matanasim gifts to the poor which…
9. 19:14very very important and during the day and I think we're doing a there's a thing…
10. 21:48money. to give some food to friends and acquaintances or people who you're not so friendly…

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