by Reb Nati at Yesh Ma L'Asot
The Inyan of Purim, Is it the drinking or is it getting drunk? Maybe we are not keeping the mitzvot of Purim at all, or at least not correctly? This is a shaylah mamash!
We know that Chazal commanded us to drink ad hu loyadaah... B'kedusha! if a person will Hashem forbid commit a sin, i.e. He forgets to say al mikra or boei neshot, Hashem forbid to say about another Jew something not good, then he is forbidden to drink at all! And for those who a sure that they can not drink B'Kedusha should drink a little wine and go to sleep! As not to cause more of a pagam! these are the words of the sages not mine.
Now on a positive note let's continue.
In the name of the holy Rebbe of Zitoshev..."If a person drinks wine on Purim, the way he is commanded. It is the same as if he fasted twice from shabbos to shabbos!" How great this mitzvah is!
And there is no Mitzvah except on wine! (There is no mitzvah to drink vodka or whiskey or brandy) To drink, and "ad" you can't tell the difference in yourself between kilpah, of 'Haman/Ha Amalek', and the holiness of Tzaddik ' Baruch Mordechai HaYehudi.'
Reb Noson writes in (likutey halachot Chozen Mishpat Oseh Shaliach L'kebel Hovo ot gimel). "When a person drinks wine b'kedusha, he is able to completely subjugate the klipa of Haman Ha Amalek. And to drink much much wine on purim b'kedusha is a tikun ha brit".
Rebbe Nachman Said to only drink very much wine Purim "He said the that drinking wine on Pruim is tikun habrit!". In Rebbenu Nachman's time the and his talmidim used to shout another "glass of wine!" "the Anash would shout give us more tikun habrit!". Rebbenu said "And we can fix all the pagaim of the whole year on Purim drinking B"Kedusha!" "But we know that many go on to cause terrible pagamim. This is the majority of us!" "We end up causing much pain and suffering to the shekinah"
Chazal tells us that when a person drinks wine b'kedusha the he will become the Rosh that he will gain Holy Daat. He loses 'his' mind and gains the mind of the 'Holy Tzaddik'. But if he fails to drink B'kedusha he will become a Rash 'he will only make noise', he will cry over becoming poor. 'He will lose all his kedusha' (Gemora Yoma). He will Mamash become a poor person, because he forgets all the mitzvot that Moshe rebbenu taught us from Har Sinai. So this person is 'Lo dafka' he does not fulfill his obligation. The mitzvah is dafka on wine alone! "There is a strict Issur!" And it is strictly in the strongest of terms! That it is forbidden for women to drink and to become drunk at all! it is enough for those who will understand this and we will not speaks further on this.
These are the words of the sages. This is Halacha l'miser. If you do not like it I'm sorry!
Reb Noson writes in the (likutey Halchot halachot tefillin ot vav) With wine there are only two choices, or on the level of Teias ha meisim 'of the resurection of the dead'. He has a tremendous spiritual awakening from his slumber. He attains holy daas, we can reach very high levels by drinking of wine on purim. This called 'Yain ha sameach', wine that brings joy.
But on the other side if he drinks Lo B'Kedush it is called ha 'yain shel shainah', wine that makes you sleep, which is the opposite of Daas and this is the side of death "has v'shalom".
The drinking B'kedusha is the which causes an awakening of deep internal contemplation. To know where he is really holding. Instead of being o'ver mitzvot and causing hilu Hashem 'has v'shalom'.
Baruch Hashem! We have had the Tzeut to learned by experience that when a person prepares himself properly before drinking 'Wine' on Purim then he merits to drink B'kedusha to be the Rosh. And this is prayer!
Rav shalom wrote the nusach of this prayer that we should say before drinking of the wine on Purim.
A person should know to check himself to know if he can drink? if he cant the he should hold by the shita shel Rama which was to drink very little and go to sleep thus fulfill the 'Lo yadeah'.
The mitzvah is on wine why? Because the whole miracle was on wine "when the heart of the king was merry with wine" All other drinks and drugs are forbidden!
The one who drinks more and for the one who drinks less, it doesn't matter how much we drink it is imporatant to only drink L'shem shamayim!
May we merit to receive purim B'Kedusha and to totally wipe out the memory of Haman Amalek from ourselves and and from the world And may we come to true Daas and to wake from our slumber and thriugh this merit to receive the geula mamash!
...There is something to do!
