Purim: Getting Drunk and Accepting Torah Willingly

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the end of the Megillah tie accepting Purim to the fasts and the crying? The Rambam treats a get given under force as valid because deep down every Yid wants to do what is right. The Chasam Sofer reconciles this with the mountain held over Klal Yisrael, since that inner will woke up only on Purim, when the Torah was accepted again willingly. Getting drunk on Purim reenacts that, and Purim shows that Hashem's primary residence is the heart.

Key points

• The Rishonim dispute whether the Megillah's fasts mean Taanis Esther or the four fasts of the Churban.
• Wine removes a person's da'as like the twisted arm, revealing the inner will to accept the Torah.
• Hashem's primary residence is the heart, so the Churban burned only a summer home.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Purim drinking and the Megillah's end
2. 2:29The Rambam on a forced get
3. 5:09The mountain held over us
4. 6:37The Chasam Sofer's question and answer
5. 8:58Why we get drunk on Purim
6. 10:50The Vilna Gaon on Nediv Lev
7. 13:09Primary residence and summer home
8. 15:24Zecher l'Churban at the Purim seudah

Topics

• Purim
• Kabbalas HaTorah
• Drinking on Purim
• Churban