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

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

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.

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.

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

Ben

On 3/12/2017 11:55 PM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> I do not believe that the Jews at the time of Purim saw the miracle as 
> ordinary at all.  It was clear in the end that HaShem saved the Jews 
> through the efforts of Esther and Mordechai.