[Avodah] Sobering Thoughts for Purim

[Prof. Levine]

 From 
<http://www.priority-1.org/html/email/Sobering_Thoughts.pdf>http://www.priority-1.org/html/email/Sobering_Thoughts.pdf 


As everyone's favorite holiday approaches, joy is in the air. Liquor 
stores begin to anticipate an increase in sales. However, amidst all 
this joy, there is a group of individuals who are too nervous to 
celebrate, too educated to get caught up in the Purim frenzy. This 
group knows the dangers that Purim can bring, because they have spent 
their past Purims delivering our young Yeshiva students to the 
hospital. They know what can happen to those who drink irresponsibly. 
The situation has become so grave that a respected Gadol said that if 
our sages had observed the scene on Purim they would have abolished 
drinking on Purim. Unfortunately, this is not the case, but the least 
we can do is to try to explore what the sages did say, evaluate if we 
are fulfilling the Mizvah properly, and see if there is any basis to 
drink to the point of intoxication.

Please see the above URL for the rest of this "sobering" article.

Yitzchok Levine 
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