[Avodah] Chayav livsumei

[saul newman via Avodah]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> How can it be bitmiha when there has been no previous suggestion that
> it *should* be that way?   This is the first we hear of such a thing,
> so it must be read straight.   And the upshot of the story is that
> despite what happened the previous year Rabba did not refrain, because
> drunkenness on Purim *is* the right thing to do, and the consequences
> are in Hashem's hands.

to that i would think that then, the widespread chillul hashem that
drinking on purim by the Bochrim teams [the 5th mitzva of purim,
collecting for anything OTHER than matanos leevyonim] would definitionally
be not a chillul Hashem, since it "is in Hashem's hands" to quote you --
though i think you would answer that the drunkenness was supposed to be
part of a seudah , and their shtick precedes the seudah by many hours ,
and therefore merits no Divine sanction