Journey to London: Edgware - The Joy of Adar In Contrast to the Morning of Av

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com uh we'll we'll relay the thank yous god willing before the main address just uh some food for thought a short idea we're all familiar with what the gemara tells us what the talmud says when the month of adar comes in we increase our joy but the way this statement is formulated it doesn't just say when the month of adr comes in we increase our joy the way the talmud formulates the statement is as follows just like when the month of ab comes in we diminish our joy so too when the month of aadhaar comes we increase our joy as if one is dependent on the other just like there's an equation over here just like we diminish our joy enough so too we increase our joy in other you know what does one have to do with the other segment wants us to increase our joy in either say be happy another it's irrespective of our feeling and our perspective of the month of af as if adar is the mirror image of because we diminish our joy enough therefore we increase our joy and either why is one dependent on the other just the short idea the shogunate writes and this is which is not observed as far as i know anywhere that at any meal that we have we need to leave over an empty setting so you have let's say you're inviting nine guests to your table you have 10 people at your table you need to have 11 settings and the 11th you leave empty why we don't keep it that's a separate discussion but there is a halacha that we leave over an empty setting at every table they legend what about if you're making you see them yes rabbi brett is making a see him tuesday where is he he's already went to the seam so he's making you see him even at a sudas mitzvah you need to leave over an empty setting perhaps even on yamtif you need to leave over an empty setting there's one day a year you don't leave over an empty setting to remember the destruction of the temple purim the shari chuva writes the halacha that purim is the only day of the year you do not have to leave over an empty setting at your table to remember the destruction of the temple why would that be why would purim be the only day a year you don't have to remember the corbin mesa mechdas we have this very unusual halachan param and that is on purim we are required only men but men are required to drink so much that basically they don't know if they're coming or going the gemara says you need to become so intoxicated until you don't know the difference who's the good guy and who's the bad guy and isn't that an absurd halacha become so inebriated that you don't know you know azahu shiva is a hubia as the kumar said you don't know if you're coming or going why would the ghazal formulate they have to drink so much that you basically don't even know about the purim story anymore so there's an amazing commentary on the mcgill the name of the commentary is the yosef lekach written by rebellizer ashkenazi he's buried in krakow had the privilege about two years ago to be at his grave in krakow blizzard ashkenazi wrote a commentary on the homicide hashem and he says something incredible he says the reason why our sages formulated a mitzvah to drink basically till you drop on purim is because in the year that purim occurred they had a big problem you know houston i have a problem here you guys don't know what houston is you think it's a station in uh manchester or something but we got a problem right we have a problem what's the problem the problem is you're going to celebrate the salvation of purim but you don't we remember this is in the direct aftermath of the destruction of the temple okay so our lives were saved and judaism was saved but on the other hand we're still reeling from the destruction of the basa mikdash it was impossible to formulate the holiday of purim in the aftermath of the temple what are you going to you're going to sit down at your table and you're going to celebrate we're still mournful over the corbin so hazal said you need to drink on purim and forget about the destruction of the base of mikdash that's why they said you need to drink on purim because otherwise you can't enjoy the purim how are you going to enjoy purim in the aftermath of destruction so they said basically drink until you forget about the orbit but they couldn't say those words drink until you forget about the hormone that would be so disrespectful for the vasa mitas so they hid the true intent of the mits of drinking and they wrote it in a pc way drink until you don't know the difference between or haman and barak morocha who's the good guy who's the bad guy but the true intention is drink so much that you don't think about the hormone samiktas so in other words purim is the exact opposite of corbin the month of we need to diminish our joy why do we need to diminish our joy because it's the month we commemorate and memorialize destruction and adore we need to increase our joy it's the exact mirror image of av because it's the month we forget about the destruction of islamic dash it's the month that we don't have a zechariah it's the month that we are so joyful that the purpose of drinking on purim is so to speak to mitigate the mourning over the temple so that we could enjoy the salvation of purim so what purim is purim is the mirror opposite of the month of and therefore khazal have alluded to this by formulating the myths as follows just like we diminish our joy nav why because we focus on the corbin because in the month of our we so to speak forget about corbin enjoy the rest of your mail you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com