Purim – When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

Purim is a time of great simcha. It’s a lot of fun. We make jokes, dress up….. good times. Thats how we express the simcha that we feel on Purim. But that ..

Written by Tal Segal

Simcha

The gemarra (Ta’anis 29a) says that ‘just like in Adar we increase the simcha, so too in Av do we decrease the simcha.’ This decreased simcha culminates with ..

Written by d fine

Purim Olam Habo

We are told that Purim should have been made a yom tov, where we would not be able to drive or do the melachos, however the jews themselves said they didn’t ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

United Together

It says in Parasha Pekudai the words “vayasu bnei yisrael” which means the “Bnei Yisrael made/built” (the mishkan). Hold on a second we know ..

Written by Marc Zemmel

PURIM: WOW HASHEM REALLY HELPED US OUT!!!!

I have said in a couple of other vorts about Purim how all the events that occured at this time were all down to Hashems Divine hand Manipulating events to help ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

how speech mix-up caused Vashti’s death (the inside story!)

One of the later authorities points out something remarkable about the events leading up to the execution of queen vashti by achashveirosh in the first perek of the megilla. ..

Written by D Fine

isn’t purim the worst possible name?

The festival is named purim (‘lottery’) after the lottery that Hamman cast to determine the day the Jews would all be killed. Is this not a rather inappropriate ..

Written by d fine

one part of the purim story is generations old!!

Why was Mordechai chosen to wage battle with Haman? Chazal say that since Hamon was from Esav, he was to be brought down by the children of Rachel Imeinu, specifically ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

Why hide Esther’s Jewishness???

Esther didn’t reveal her Jewish background on the advice of Mordechai. What was Mordechai’s reason for wanting Esther to keep her nationality a secret? ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

The memory of amelek is a wipe out!!

“… You shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!” Devarim 25:17-19 The word Amalek – עמלק has a gematria ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose