Purim (Part IV) - Utilize this Auspicious Day

00:00 The hemsek and continuation to the earlier installments regarding Purim by the Rebbe, we continue now with a short overview of a sikha which the Rebbe delivered during a Purim farbrengen in the year 1955. This sikha is a very inspirational sikha, guiding a person and telling him in what auspicious day one finds himself in when it is in the Yom Tov of Purim. The Rebbe said as follows, There are those that even when they find themselves on Purim and during a farbrengen, which is an auspicious time which needs to be fulfilled and utilized throughout the year to connect to godliness, yet they cannot accomplish in themselves to forget and go out from themselves. One person thinks about his illness. Another person thinks about something else. And another person thinks when does he have to get up tomorrow morning and the meilah he needs to know when he needs to retire for the evening. What hour the bus goes and therefore he needs to calculate how long could he still remain here at the farbrengen. Another person thinks about his son or son-in-law finds himself in a specific place somewhere. And another individual thinks about gashmius, his physical state, and yet another thinks about his spiritual state. The Rebbe continues, why should they not utilize this auspicious time to immerse oneself in the pure waters, which this is an expression of the Rambam in the end of Sefer Hilchot Mikvot. Immersing means tvilah. The word tvilah is spelled tes beis yud lamed hei, which is the same

02:29 letters like beetle, nullification. Therefore, the Rebbe says, at least for a short time, forget about yourself, forget about everybody around you. When Hashem gives Yidden a special day in the year and he says that even Yom Kippur during Neilah, it is not expected from a Yid that he should stand in a state of adelyada, that he gets so rejoiced in the simcha of Purim. But only Purim there is such an obligation because it is a very auspicious time. And therefore, Hashem rewards for what a Yid reaches when he comes to the state of adelyada. And the Rebbe continues, nevertheless, there are those that use the day to think about themselves, about oneself, either spiritual matters or physical matters. And after Purim leaves, the yemei ha-Purim leave, he says it says in the pasuk in Mishlei, יבלס אדם את סלב דרכיו על ה' יזיף ליבה That he, the folly in the person unsettles the right path of the person and then his heart rages against Hashem, becomes angry. He comes and complains, why is he missing this detail in Torah? And meilah also, why is he missing a second detail in fulfillment of mitzvahs? And therefore, it also results in a physical state that he's also missing additional aspects. And Hashem tells Am Yisrael, listen to me, Yidden. I am giving you a day in which you have an obligation, lipsumei, to mellow with wine adelyada. Till the person doesn't know the difference between Haman and Baruch Mordechai. And in particular, through this conduct of adelyada,

04:48 a person accomplishes venapihu, that everything is converted from a very low level to a very high level. And we merit to draw simcha, joy, an infinite joy for the whole year. A freilechen Purim.