„'When wine enters, a secret comes out,' and we greatly need in our li…”
„'When wine enters, a secret comes out,' and we greatly need in our lives that the hidden secrets should come out and be revealed. Through the revelation of the secrets we come to know ourselves, we come to know what is hidden within us. At the hour when we come to that same aspect of”
Purim is a festival of revelation, of removing outer shells (kelipot) from ourselves, of removing masks.
We are captives within certain conceptions that do not allow us to develop: social rigidity, our image in the eyes of society, the rules of the collective - all these often cause us not to rise above the place where we are and not to advance.
Throughout the year our attempt to advance is by means of normative tools.
On Purim, one day a year, we try to break through and advance with the help of the understanding that this is a day with different rules - with the possibility of opening in places we are afraid of during daily life.
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Happy Purim.
For the recovery of Malka bat Roza
From the community archive of Mishpetei HaRav Kook — studying Rav Kook's teachings since 2011.