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Mar 16, 2011
The Purim Curse Of The Brisker Rav
The weather forecast for the coming week is expecting pretty nice weather. Unseasonably hot weather, to be more precise. Of course that can change at any moment, and/or the weathermen can be wrong.
That raises the question if the supposed "curse" on Purim, placed, supposedly, by the Brisker Rav, will or will not happen this year. The "curse" was, supposedly, that the weather would be bad on Purim in Israel (Yerushalayim only? all frum areas?) so that people would not dress in preetzusdige costumes.
When the weather is less than optimal, we all talk about how it is always that way because of the curse. What happens when the weather is nice?
That raises the question if the supposed "curse" on Purim, placed, supposedly, by the Brisker Rav, will or will not happen this year. The "curse" was, supposedly, that the weather would be bad on Purim in Israel (Yerushalayim only? all frum areas?) so that people would not dress in preetzusdige costumes.
When the weather is less than optimal, we all talk about how it is always that way because of the curse. What happens when the weather is nice?
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Do people generally choose Purim Costumes less modest than their year-round dressing style?
ReplyDeleteDon't know how things were in the times of the Brisker Rov but at least here in the Diaspora people who bother to wear costumes on Purim do not make any breaches of Tznius beyond what they might do the rest of the year. Unless he meant cross-dressing, dressing in drag which, somehow, I don't believe was rampant in his time either nor is it today.
This is the first time I am hearing this Yeshivisha urban legend and it has all the earmarks of a Bubbeh Mayshe.
The only thing immodest happening on Purim is immodest drinking so maybe the Rov should have cursed the grape/ hops crop or blessed the brewers in Scotland with a surplus of Sherry and Port casks within which to age their wares.
When the weather is less than optimal, we all talk about how it is always that way because of the curse. What happens when the weather is nice?
ReplyDeleteWe talk about the preetzusdige costumes!
Nice weather shows that we're not on the madrega do be zocheh to this curse.
ReplyDeleteI heard that with your donation of 180 NIS to Kupat Ha'ir the curse will definitely happen.
ReplyDeleteFor donations of 360 or more it can be annulled.
it was Rav Yosef Cahim Sonnenfeld who said that on Purim it should always be raining weather not the brisker rov.
ReplyDeleteKol tuv,
BJ
The holy Rabbi can control the weather and decided not to spare the Japanese from an earthquake and tzunami.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make him a murderer?
It was/(still is) raining in Yerushalayim when I came out of Megilah reading
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