Questions - Is it STILL Purim? answer - yes - in Jerusalem! They celebrate the Second Day of Purim.

AND

 

Is it possible to write a short holy thought on a short-friday? Yes - connecting purim passover and the Portion of the week

 

At Rabbi Carlebach's Shul yesterday - the Rabbi (Reb Shlomo's nephew)

was teaching a bit about the PURPOSE OF READING THE MEGILLA.

 

The Talmud explains it is for  - Pirsumei Nisa - to PUBLICIZE G-D's MIRACLE

(saving the Jewish people from wicked Haman).

 

WHAT? PEOPLE NEED TO BE REMINDED ABOUT G-D'S MIRACLES ?

 

YES

BUT AS RABBI Shlomo CARLEBACH OF BLESSED MEMORY USED TO ASK ME-

'SO WHAT?

What level of meaning is there for YOUR SOUL?

 

SO I SAY -REMINDED the WORLD ABOUT G-D'S MIRACLES-

FOR the purpose of

 

 INSPIRATION!!!

 

Maybe for  30 DAYS now - as we PREPARE FOR PESACH - let's

 

help CLEAN OUT the CHOMETZ of RUSSIAN ABUSES in the world and

 

get ready for YETZIAT MITZRAYIM - getting OUT OF EGYPTian mentality

 

and get HOLY INSPIRATION!

 

 

Aish Hatorah had a thought this week - 

 

about the WAY the Portion teaches that the Priests in the Temple had to do

EVEN THE SIMPLE DIRTY WORK OF CLEANING THE ALTAR EVERY MORNING!

SO:

"Not only do the masses need to understand the humanity of those with elevated status, but ... the need for the spiritual leaders themselves to appreciate their own normality ... in the material world. 

 

(NOT TO ALLOW THOSE) ... with great fame or fortune to let their status and their material riches define who they are to the extent that they think themselves above basic responsibilities. "

 

Maybe we should send that thought to those waging war today????

 

Shabbat Shalom

 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz