Question:
Normally every year on Purim I drink a lot to fulfill ad d’lo yoda. Should this year (5781) be different than other years, due to corona?
Answer:
The special spiritual light shining in our times will be here until Mashiach comes, as well as afterwards. It is the illumination of the Keser. It depicts the concept of “The purpose of knowing is to know that we do not know.” That is the entire purpose of the obligation to drink on Purim ad d’lo yoda, “until one does not know”. From now onward and for the rest of the year, the light of Purim will be shining much clearer, in a way that can be more easily discerned.
For this reason, the primary manifestation of this illumination was in the month of Adar of last year (5780) in Eretz Yisrael, the source of the world. The Talmud Yerushalmi is of the view that one can fulfill the mitzvah of hearing Megillah throughout the entire month of Adar, and this is because Adar is the month where mourning was turned into joy, celebration, and festivity. And now, this year, the special light is shining very strongly on this year’s Purim, and it is being made more clear that Purim is the “head of all the festivals”, as Rebbi Nachman of Breslev taught. For this reason, we should continue to extend this light into the rest of the year, though it will appear and disappear in a cycle.
Purim is the time of lo yoda, the time to transcend our regular awareness, and Chanukah is the time to draw forth higher wisdom from ayin, the spiritual source of understanding, and we are meant to progress and regress back and forth from Chanukah/chochmah/ayin and Purim/lo yoda, in a cycle.
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