[Avodah] Sobering Thoughts for Purim

[Zev Sero]

On 21/03/2011 10:53 AM, Micha Berger wrote:

> The part that I don't understand is that the gemara doesn't end there,
> though. The gemara continues with the story of "qam Rabah shechiteih leR'
> Zeira". Reading the gemara naively, I would have concluded the masqanah
> is not to hold like Rava.

On the contrary, the fact that Rabba continued to get drunk the next
year shows that the halacha is as his talmid Rava reported it (presumably
*after* this story happened).  Nor does R Zeira object to Rabba getting
drunk, so he too agrees that it's right and proper for him to do so; he
just doesn't want to be in the vicinity when it happens!

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