Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Purim with a bang!

I was zoche to have purim seudah with my brother's mishpacha in Far Rockaway. I was mikayem the mitzva of Chayiv adom lbsumah bpurya ad dlo Yoda. At the seuda I said over some thoughts on purim. Here is a summary of what I said.

The Baal Shem Tov comments that the mishna says "Hakoreh es Hameglah limafraya Lo Yotzeh Yedai Chovso" (One who reads the migala out of order is not yotzei). One who reads the migaleh "backwards" Back in time as if it is a history book is not yotzeh his chiyuv. One must view the megila as a story to be lived in the present.

The megila says "Ish Yehudi Hayah Bshushan Ushemo Mordichai" Why is mordichai called a Yehudi when he is not descendant from shevet yehuda?

This answer is not as good as the question but we see that when one exibits the personality traits of a great tzadik it is as if he descends from him. Mordichai was called yehudi because he acted like one. He had the power of "HOD" admitance and regocnition of hashems control of the world. He would not bow to haman. He would only bow to hashem. We see elsewhere in the medrash shmuel on avot, that avraham was called a father to those who patterned their life after them. They were his children. Likewise, Mordichai can be called a yehudi because he followed in the path of yehuda. What was the path of yehuda?
To be countinued....

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