...Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 7b), we are commanded as follows: "A person should become so drunk on Purim that he cannot tell the difference between 'Cursed be Haman,' and 'Blessed be Mordechai'" (Telushkin, p. 231). As Telushkin (p. 231) colorfully observes, this would be equivalent...

...them.42 Purim has always had a sense of celebration, of turning the world on its head." Raba said: It is the duty of a man to mellow himself (with wine)...difference between 'cursed be Haman' and 'blessed be Mordecai.'"43 On Purim we reverse the normal order. Not only in drinking but we read the Megillah at...

...contains the following story: Raba said: It is the duty ot every man to mellow himself [with winej on Purim until he cannot tell the difference between "cursed be Haman" and "blessed he Mordecai." Rabbah and R[abbi] Zera ioined together in a Purim feast. They became mellow, and Rabbah...

.... One must give donations to at least two needy people. Shulchan Aruch O.Ch. 694:1 . One must drink on Purim until he cannot tell the difference between "Cursed be Haman" and "Blessed be Mordechai." Shulchan Aruch O.Ch. 695:2. One must send a friend two gifts of meat or of other foods,...

...occasions. Four cups are drunk during the Passover Seder. The Purirn festivities include drinking until one cannot tell the difference between "cursed be Haman" and "blessed be Mordecai" (Megillah 7b). The Talmud tells us that ten cups of wine are drunk in a house of mourning (Semachot...