Ep. 490: Should We Allow Jews Siding With Our Enemies Celebrate Purim With Us?

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Episode 490: Special Purim Edition
When: Sunday, March 24, 8:00PM ET
For recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier.
Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
What does Purim teach us today?

• What is the main theme of Purim and how can we access its power in our time?
• How can Purim help us face our enemies today and transform even the greatest threat to total victory?
• Why is Purim celebrated with so much joy, more than any other day in the year?
• What is the meaning of “everyone who stretches out his hand, is given” on Purim?
• What happened Purim 1966 when the Rebbe made this announcement?
• What were the three different ways the Rebbe reacted to those stretching out their cups, and what fundamental lessons can we learn from them?
• Can Megillas Esther be translated as the revelation of the concealed?
• Why is Purim named after a lottery?
• If Haman was accessing a level beyond good and evil how could he have channeled that into evil?
• What is the connection between Purim and Yom Ha'Ki-Purim?
• Is Haman a representation of the primordial evil of the snake in the Garden of Eden?
• Why is Shushan Purim celebrated only in cities that had walls since the time of Joshua?
• Is there an advantage to living in a walled city?
• What is the deeper meaning behind the Megillah being read from the eleventh to the fifteenth of the month?
• How is Purim considered the completion of the giving of the Torah?
• Should we gather children together to recite verses to help vanquish our enemies as Mordechai did?
• Can we explain Moshiach’s imminent arrival with the events as they occurred during the days of Purim?
• If the Rabbis can alter the laws of reading the Megillah allowing it to be read earlier to accommodate Jews, why can’t they decree the immediate coming of Moshiach?
• Should we allow Jews siding with our enemies celebrate Purim with us?
• Did the Rebbe say that whistling is connected to Moshiach?