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Script, Score and Soul: Preparing for Purim with Halacha, Hashkafa and History

Speaker:: Rabbi Tanchum Cohen
Date:: February 26 2023

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Venue: Cong. KINS (Chicago, IL) Cong. KINS (Chicago, IL)

Gemara:

Gittin, Megillah, Menachot

Halacha:

Purim, STAM

History:

Bayit Sheni, Period of Tanach

Machshava:

Hashem, History, Philosophy of Halacha, Prophecy, Purim, Spirituality

Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik

Yerushalmi:

Megillah

Collections: Laws of Megilla Reading

References: Megilla: 19A , Megilla: 16B , Menachot: 32B , Gittin: 6B

Description

A pre-Purim shiur at KINS in Chicago, exploring the meaning and spiritual potential of Purim, through a careful look at what seem like technical details of making a megilla, but turn out to also be keys to appreciating that Purim prepares us for a change in how Hashem relates to us and how we find Him.

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