Question:
1) What is the avodah Hashem on Purim night? Is it better to learn Maseches Megillah, say Tehillim, drink a little and show some simchah a little?
Answer:
The Poskim say that one should eat a bit of a festival meal on Purim night. Chazal established that people should hear Megillah at night. Inwardly, the avodah is to see how the nighttime, which is known as the time of hester (concealment), is really Esther (the aleph/One that is found in all the hester/concealment, the concept that Hashem’s Presence that is found with us in the darkness.)
Question:
2) Should a person drink slowly throughout Purim so that he will constantly be in a relaxed and joyous state, or should all of the drinking be limited to the Purim seudah?
Answer:
Each person according to his nature and his needs.
Question:
3) Should Purim mainly be utilized as a day of tefillah (prayer)? Sefer Shem M’Shmuel says that a person can daven for whatever he wants on Purim. Should that be our focus on Purim day? And when should a person daven on Purim?
Answer:
The main part of Purim is to access the special levels of spiritual awareness that are available on Purim, whereas only a part of Purim should be spent on davening for anything you want. The main tefillah to daven on Purim is that you should be zocheh to gain the special power available on Purim day, and the time to feel it is when one is imbibed with wine [at the Purim seudah].
Question:
4) What is the main avodah on Purim? Is it simchah, or ahavas Yisrael, or erasing Amalek, or bitachon, or gaining a deeper connection to Hashem (which goes beyond even talking to Hashem)? The sefarim all say many different definitions of what Purim is all about, so can the Rav please clarify what the primary avodah on Purim is and what the branches are?
Answer:
Lo yoda !!! [it is mainly a day the reach the awareness beyond or normal daas-knowledge].
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