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

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

On 3/13/2017 3:09 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:
 > 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.

Nope. Simple pashat in the verses:
Ester 9:19 Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the 
unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of 
gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to 
another.

The Jews, the people came up with the party idea. Yes, Mordechai took 
that idea (that the people themselves came up with) and added the following

22 the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month 
which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning 
into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and 
gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Gifts to the poor was his addition. And of course, Ester said "Write me 
for generations".

 >
 > 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.

Irrelevant. A brit and a wedding may have a party attached to it but 
one's brit milah and marital status are not affected by the lack of a 
party.  Here the party is the mitzva.

 > 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.

Exceptional? I said "Divine".  Certainly many people deny any halachic 
significance to the State.

 > Concerning Zionism I strongly recommend reading Zion or Zionism: Rav 
Shimon Schwab

Read it one of the previous times you put it up. Didn't change my mind. 
Thanks though.
 >
 > 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?

You just proved my point - no one else sees the world the way you do so 
there is no reason to assume that anyone else "believed" what you do 
about the reality of God's involvement.
 >
 > YL