All About Purim

FILEW - Jewish settlers, one in the costume of a soldier, read from the Book of Ester, or the 'Megilla' as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim in the northern West Bank settlement called Havat Gilad, on 20 March 2011. EPAby Rabbi Yair Hoffman READING THE MEGILLAH Rav Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l, the famed Mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland, writes something absolutely fascinating (Daas Chochma uMussar Vol. I page 76) about the Megillah.  He writes, basing himself on the Vilna Gaon’s pshat on the last pasuk in Megilas Esther, that the entire Megilah is a […]