[Avodah] purim drink

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 3/15/2017 10:12 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> 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.

For the record, the verb shachat in Akkadian (Babylonian) means 
"attack", rather than "slaughter".

If you have no problem viewing baruch Mordechai and arur Haman as the 
same thing all the time (not getting into the argument again), would you 
still have to drink or sleep according to those who say it is a chiyuv?

Lisa

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