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 On
Saturday night and Sunday, we will celebrate Purim  

Last
week we discussed the power of Adar and more specifically Adar Bet  

Someone
asked  

Why
is Purim celebrated in Adar Bet ? 

By
Sephardim, any yahrzeit or birthday which occurs in a regular year in Adar is
marked in a leap year in Adar bet. 

We
learn in Shulchan Aruch under the Laws of Passover Siman 429 Seif 1, we are
commanded to start (re) learning the Passover laws thirty days after Passover
right after Purim. Thus, Purim needs to remain thirty days before Passover and
is pushed to Adar Sheni. 

Additionally
we celebrate Purim during Adar II, in order to juxtapose the joy of the Purim
redemption with the redemption from Egypt. We also read the Four Parshiyot
during this month, because Parashat Shekalim, Parashat Para, and Parashat Ha-ĥodesh were instituted as a
preparation for the month of Nisan, and Parashat Zakhor must be read
immediately before Purim, which we celebrate in Adar II ( We read Zachor this
Shabbat – Question if we are commanded to
remember what Amalek did and also not to forget – then why not just unfurl a poster or a sign or simply
get up and say I remember or add it to our prayers which many of us do each day.
Why must we come to the synagogue and hear the Torah? Remind me at the end to
bring it back to this.  

Before
we begin 

I
want you to image a 100 yard dash  

A
race in a straight line  

The
starting line and the finish line are the two points furthest from each other  

Now
let’s imagine a race in a stadium around
a track  

There
we circle the track and the start line becomes the finish line  

In
this case the starting line and the finish line are the two points closest to
each other 

How
do you look at time? As a straight line or as a circle?  

Our
class today is based on the beautiful words of Rav Pinchas Friedman of Belz,
The Shvilei Pinchas  

We
have learned in the Gemarah (Taanis 29a): “משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה” — when Adar begins we increase joy