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<font size=3>At 11:05 PM 3/12/2017, Ben Waxman wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.</font></blockquote><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>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.</font></blockquote><br>
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.<br><br>
Concerning Zionism I strongly recommend reading
<a href="https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/zion_or_zionism.pdf">
<font face="arial" size=4><b>Zion or Zionism: Rav Shimon
Schwab</a></b></font><font size=3> <br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Lastly when people say "It
is clear" that usually means "I
believe".</font></blockquote><br>
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?<br><br>
<font size=3>YL<br>
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