[Avodah] Will Purim Be The Only Yom Tov Left Standing After Moshiach Comes? Let's Take a Closer Look

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

At 11:05 PM 3/12/2017, Ben Waxman wrote:
>Four mitzvot were created by three different people: Ester created 
>the Megilla reading, the people created the party and sending gifts 
>to friends, and Mordechai added in giving tzeddakah. While the 
>mitzvot invented by Mordechai and Ester are similar to Biblical 
>mitzvot, the people's response was quite the secular invention: a party.

I do not know where you get "four mitzvos were created by *three* 
different people".   The mitzvos of Purim were instituted by Torah 
authorities.  I would assume the Sanhedrin, if it was functioning at 
the time.

A party need not be a secular event if it is tied to torah 
values.  Is a bris or a Chassana a secular event? They have  some 
aspects of a "party,"  but  if they are conducted according to 
halacha, they are not secular events.


>In addition, given the way people act towards the modern day miracle 
>known as the State of Israel, I can see that people (then) acted as 
>if what happened was only politics, tactics, strategy. Of course 
>part of that is the Zionist in me talking. OTOH it is a simple truth 
>that people go to great lengths to deny any hint of the Divine in 
>what happened in 1948. People being people, I can imagine similar 
>responses back then.

To the best of my knowledge everyone sees the creation of the State 
of Israel as an exceptional event, although not all consider it a 
plus.  While I am not a spokesman for Satmar,  I do not think that 
the Satmar rebbe considered that the founding of the State of Israel 
"was only politics,  tactics, strategy."  He felt that it was an 
exceptional event that was not a plus.

Concerning Zionism I strongly recommend reading 
<https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/zion_or_zionism.pdf>Zion 
or Zionism: Rav Shimon Schwab


>Lastly when people say "It is clear" that usually means "I believe".

Is it not true that all assertions are actually based to some extent 
on belief.  How do I know that the world as I see it is the way it is 
in realty?  Is this not belief?

YL
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