{"id":8764,"date":"2010-05-16T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T08:19:27","slug":"05-16-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/05-16-02\/","title":{"rendered":"02. Jewish Unity on Purim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purim is a special day for displaying Jewish unity. Haman\u2019s decree was aimed at the entire Jewish people, with no distinction between righteous and wicked, poor and rich. One can learn from the ambitions of Israel\u2019s enemies \u2013 to kill every single Jew \u2013 that the unique properties of Israel inhere in every Jew. God saved us all, and in so doing, transformed our grief into joy. Therefore, the joyous celebration of Purim must include every Jew. Accordingly, we are commanded to give <em>mishlo\u2019a\u0125 manot <\/em>and <em>matanot la-evyonim<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the disunity of the Jewish people at the time enabled Haman to denounce them before King A\u0125ashverosh: \u201cThere is a certain people, scattered and dispersed among the other peoples in all the provinces of your realm\u2026. If it please Your Majesty, let an edict be drawn for their destruction\u201d (Esther 3:8-9). Similarly, Haman&#8217;s decree was foiled by Jewish solidarity, as Esther said to Mordechai, \u201cGo, assemble all the Jews who live in Shushan, and fast in my behalf; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day\u201d (<em>ibid<\/em>. 4:16). In this way, Esther succeeded in nullifying the decree.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Jewish unity is a precondition for receiving the Torah, as it says in reference to the giving of the Torah, \u201cIsrael encamped (<em>vayi\u0125an<\/em>) there in front of the mountain\u201d (Shemot 19:2). Noting the verse\u2019s use of the singular verb <em>vayi\u0125an<\/em>, the Sages explain that Israel encamped there \u201clike one man with one heart\u201d (Rashi). They did this \u201cso that they would love each other, and thereby receive the Torah\u201d (<em>Mekhilta<\/em> <em>ad loc<\/em>.). Only then did God say, \u201cBehold, the time has come for Me to give the Torah to My children\u201d (<em>Vayikra Rabba<\/em> 9:9). Just as a Torah scroll that is missing a single letter is entirely invalid, so too, if one of the 600,000 Jews who stood at Mount Sinai when the Torah was given would have been missing, we would not have been privileged to receive the Torah. The same is true of Purim. As a result of the harsh decree that unified the Jewish people, we were redeemed and were even privileged to accept the Torah anew, as the Sages relate that Israel accepted the Torah anew in the time of A\u0125ashverosh, out of love (<em>Shabbat<\/em> 88a). 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