QUESTION:
At Har Sinai, the Jewish people were forced to accept the Torah when Hashem suspended the mountain above their heads, and on Purim, they accepted the Torah willingly, out of love. But even by Purim, weren’t they under a lot of pressure from Haman’s decree and that’s why they turned to Hashem?
ANSWER:
[Just as there is a halachah when a person needs to be pressured into giving a get and it is considered that he is giving it willingly because] “We force him until he says “I want” [so too a person can become forced into], revealing the love that he has deep down to do Hashem’s will.
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