On Purim We Are Brothers - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

every single holiday has themes that run through it and of course perm is no different and these themes are there not just as to tell us the story of what happened way back when but for us to take lessons and a message even for today and purim is certainly no exception to the rule but there is one theme in perm that i think gets overlooked and that's the fact that perm is the time where the jewish people we accepted the torah when we accepted the torah way back when at our sinai so was forced upon us we had no choice the gemaran chavez explains to us that kasparov who held the mountain overhead hired kagigas like a barrel and he said to us if you accept the torah but fantastic but if not i'm gonna drop this barrel this mountain on top of you you're gonna die it's that no choice but to accept it but now in the story of purim the megillah says the jews re-accept it and rashi explain the gemara explains and rashi explains further is that this was a re-acceptance of the torah but this time ada ava out of love and the question is what is it what is the common denominator between the acceptance of purim and the acceptance of harassing and why is this one out of love and that one forced so if you take a look the content nominator i think is obvious and that is unity amongst the jewish people we know famously that the jewish people dwelled around our senior as one person one heart and there's a tremendous unity and because of that that was the prerequisite to receiving the torah and at the time of perm there's no difference we're up against the wall and we unified together and fought our way out of him and the things that we do nowadays on purim is to remember that sense of unity create that sense of unity for example we wear our our costumes we take off our clothes this is an interesting costume that we have and we put on costumes because on perm it doesn't matter how i dress or how i look i'm going to put on my mask and i'm just the jew i'm nothing else and then i go out and give him a ton of slave money to the poor and whether you're you're from this class or that class today you're my brother and i'm helping you out and then we sit by the perm suit then we have a geshmaq time together and people are drinking they don't know the difference between cursing and blessing mordechai and the idea is i don't care what type of jew you are you're always keeping all the mitsubis you're or you're our home you're not a person who yet is keeping everything it doesn't matter today i don't know the difference i'm inviting you all into my sudah to join me and of course last but not least i go out and i send gifts to all the people it says the model slave specifically the people who are not your closest friends to create this sense of unity when we you want to accept the torah the king with him we need to create a sense of unity imagine for a moment you got one piece of paper in front of you easily ripped but if you take a whole stack of paper no one correct that that's what the jewish people are when we're standing alone we can rip us the humans of the world can get to us but we stand unified together no one could rip us apart this past week i was thinking about this i was traveling back from america and right before we all got onto the plane someone says maryv and starts rushing by the gate of minion but this was the most beautiful minion i've ever seen in my life the one who was leading us was this svardi and akipasuga and staying next time dressed like this in ashkenazim american israelis and all over in a time of where we're uncomfortable so we're all okay to unify together and that is what was the difference between harsinai and the story of purim we had the comfort the security blanket by our senate of being by hashem we didn't realize how much we needed one another but by the story of purim where our backs were against the wall we realized i need my brother and my sister and i don't care how you dress and i don't care what class you're in i don't care how many mitzvahs you do or don't do in terms of my unity with you we're brothers we're gonna be a big big group of people that no one can get to us and that should be our goal this purim our golden sperm should be that no matter what you put on your mask your friend puts on his mask it doesn't matter anything else besides that we're juice and when we unify together merit hashem this purim will be a true acceptance of a torah and a torah lifestyle that will lead us to the next stage everyone have a fantastic day and permission [Music]