A Special Mishloach Manos | Rabbi Aharon Weinberg

The Heiliger Ruzhiner זי”ע, they informed on him and they put him into prison. He was in a jail. When it became close to the days of Purim, he became very concerned, very worried. What's going to be with the Mitzvah of Mishloach Manos? It's impossible for me to fulfill this Mitzvah here in prison. I don't have what to send, I don't have to whom to send it. As it got closer and closer to Purim, the Ruzhiner got more and more worried. It came the night of Purim, Purim morning. It came the end of the day of Purim and the Heiliger Ruzhiner was standing by a window, looking out from his cell in prison. He was very crushed. He was burning. What's going to be with the Mitzvah of Mishloach Manos? It's the last minutes of the day. The Heiliger Ruzhiner picked up his holy face to heaven And he yelled out: Father in Heaven, You know how much I wanted, with my whole being, with my whole heart and soul, to fulfill the Mitzvah of Mishloach Manos, but I'm stuck. I don't have anybody to send to. I don't have what to send. And from his two holy eyes rolled down two boiling tears, and he said: Ribono shel Olam, Mishloach Manos has to be two types, two מינים. I'm sending you two hot boiling tears. Please, Tatte, accept it as Mishloach Manos. Please send back to me, return to me Mishloach Manos, to me, to Klal Yisroel, Refuos and Yeshuos. And Chasidim would say there was never such a good year like that year, that the Ribono shel Olam returned to the Heiliger Ruzhiner Mishloach Manos in the form of spreading Yeshuos for the entire Klal Yisroel. Dear Yidden, we're approaching Purim. And we're picking up our eyes and we're saying, Father in Heaven, we're sending you Mishloach Manos, our two eyes that we guard, that we make sure we watch over them. It should be pure. Please accept it and send us back. And maybe that's the Remez in the Gemara, which means the eyes of the poor people are turned to, they’re dependent on the day of Purim, when we read the Megillah and we give them מתנות לאביונים. But maybe the Remez is, עיני עניים, those eyes, who guard themselves and are careful all year round to remain pure, נשואות למקרא מגילה the day of Purim, we read the Megillah, they get so picked up, because we send them Mishloach Manos to the Ribono shel Olam. And we ask Him to send us back. And as it says in the Megillah that Achashverosh said, Write in a letter, Write whatever you feel in your eyes is good for Yidden. And Tzaddikim would say, Write a decree for Klal Yisroel, כטוב בעיניכם, Yidden should have good eyes. That'll be the biggest Mishloach Manos, by being able to have holy, pure eyes.