[Avodah] To Drink or Not To Drink? A Halachic Analysis of Getting Drunk on Purim.

[Micha Berger]

An observation about pesaq and negi'os...

When you're in yeshiva, you spend all day studying texts, so it
is unsurprising that your attitude toward halakhah gets kind of
textualist. And so, the rise of yeshiva attendance created such new
practices from widespread standing to answer Qaddish to finding someone
else to say VaYekhulu with on a Friday night. (BTW, is it closer to eidus
to say it together with your father or brother than to say it alone? And
wouldn't a single family in shul invalidate the whole kat of eidim saying
it on time together?)

So, if people were consistent, when it came to drinking on Purim, the
yeshivos would follow the Rama and do what R Chaim Brisker did -- have
a little bronfen, fall asleep, and while asleep one is "ad delo yada".

But no. When it comes to getting drunk on Purim, the texts and Brisk-keit
go out the window and suddenly anything but minhag avos is declared
too artificial.

Negi'os, taavah. "Ki hashochad ya'aveir einei chakhamim".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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