[Avodah] purim drink

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:33:48AM -0700, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
: if one neither drank alcohol  nor slept on purim, what mitzva did they
: violate? were they yotzeh the mitzva of eating a seuda on purim?

http://www.torahmusings.com/2013/02/drinking-on-purim-2/
http://www.torahmusings.com/2014/03/drinking-on-purim-3/

The Ran, the Baal haMaor, the Shibolei haleqet, the Bach, the Taz
and the Arukh haShulchan say there is no such chuyuv. Not as an
actual mandatory obligation.

The Baal haMaor reads the gemara as "Rabba Shechat lei leR' Zeira
is the masqana, and one is not supposed to drink on Purim.

And then...

It's a whole sugya, those two posts -- by R MD Lebovitz (and reviewed by
R's Ben-Zion Shiffenbaur and R' Y Belsky) and R' Arie Enken, respectively
-- have very different but consistent descriptions of it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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