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EPISODE · Feb 21, 2013 · 12 MIN

Why we get Drunk on Purim

from This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe · host TORCH

On Purim we are instructed to intoxicate ourselves with wine till we do not know the difference between “Haman is cursed” and “Mordechai is blessed”. What could possibly be the rationale behind such a strange mitzvah?

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