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- Purim & The Month of Adar
- The Laws of Purim
Shalom Rav,
I wanted to ask, what should I do on Purim since I don’t really like wine?
Answer:
The important thing is to be happy, and one can be happy without wine. This is what we learn from the Gemara, which tells us that Rabbi Yehuda did not drink wine on Purim, and he was exceptionally happy. And, there are verses which teach that remembering God’s goodness can make a person very happy, even more than wine. "His repute will be like the wine of Lebanon [with its unique taste that lingers]" and "we will recount your love which is more intoxicating than wine". In short, the main thing is to be overjoyed with God’s love for us, and not necessarily from wine.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
