Rabbi Chaim Mintz's Purim Message from Oorah

we're hoping that we're all getting into the poor spirit some people make a big mistake they think performance for kids they don't realize performance for adults the kids and the children that we uh show them what Purim is all about is only to get them ready for what to be adults that they'll be able to use the opportunity of Purim to the highest extent possible Just one thought about Purim we have to realize that we've talked told that all the other holidays will be stopped at a certain time when mashir comes there'll be such great joy of the new holidays that will overshadow the old holidays the Purim will always be forever will never become overshadowed by any other holidays we have to understand why Purim wasn't even in the terror holiday it was it was made later by Mordechai Nester in the high court of that time what's the special about Purim so I'll give you an example people at a wedding there's a great joy in dancing and singing at the wedding and all the people are having a wonderful time and some of the older people sitting in at the table at the wedding are enjoying themselves but they have that feeling themselves but they've been into a lot of weddings in their lifetime not all of them ended up so great some of them ended up in disaster and they say look everybody's rejoicing what's this wedding going to be about well this wedding end up to be a happy one we'll have to show them maybe not but 50 years later when this bride and groom are celebrating the 50th Anniversary golden anniversary then people can really be very happy because look they went through 50 years of marriage and all the problems that come up for marriage children that they had to raise with all different types of problems and different things that people have to go through in their lifetime and look at that they're sitting together they're still with the same love with each other they're together with each other with such a tranquility and and and and and and and Good Feeling then everybody feels this was a great marriage it's something that really when they rejoiced in the beginning the first day of their wedding everybody's dancing it was something something to dance about look at what's happening to them now they went through 50 years and they're still together with such Joy this is the same thing all the other holidays they were great holidays that was very very beginning the Jews went out of Egypt and everything was wonderful Miracles all the great things happening to the Jewish people it was time for rejoicing but Purim is a time of Godless the Jews wanted to Exile God was not so happy with them they were not the same level of greatness and closeness to Hashem this tested their relationship there's a real a true strong relationship between God and Jewish people or maybe one of the Jewish sin God will forsake them leave them but Purim showed that no in thick and thin we're close to Hashem close to God no matter what we do no nobody no matter how bad we are Hashem would never leave us that's what happened in the time of Purim that they made that terrible decree to destroy the Jews but Hashem was with us even though we're regardless of him in the in the Exile the Aspera still God showed that no matter what we're close to him and that's why that how the aquarium will never become forgotten it'll never be overshadowed by the other holidays and that's why we make such a great celebration of Purim because it's overshadows the other holidays because it shows that this is really a relationship that will last forever seven so let us all celebrate adults as well as children and Michael look high and be really happy and show that we're so happy that we have this relationship with God they'll never be broken it'll be forever have important to everybody