In a recently published clip of a farbrengen, Reb Yoel Kahn addresses the Lubavitch approach to Purim, not for jesting and drunkenness, but as a day of uplifting joy.
In a recently published clip of a farbrengen, Reb Yoel Kahn addresses the Lubavitch approach to Purim, not for jesting and drunkenness, but a day of uplifting joy.
Reb Yoel told a story of a man who did not want to engage in indulgent eating, so he would wait all week for Shabbos when he could indulge “for the sake of a mitzvah.” Similarly, there are those who wait all year long to let loose and drink. But that is not the Chabad way.
By the Rebbe, Reb Yoel said, Purim was a serious day. Joyful, but serious.
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