The validity of the fast. Esther’s fast for what???
What is the point of fasting the Fast of Esther? The matter is accepted in the words of Maimonides, beginning of the fifth chapter of the Laws of Fasts, which gives fasts a current meaning. However, all this is in fasts that are words of Kabbalah, the Fast of Esther has nothing to do with current affairs. What will help me to fast in memory of… Who is interested in this memory? Why am I supposed to fast because 2500 years ago in an ancient country on the borders of Iran they fasted. Jewish history is full of fasts for all kinds of atrocities and decrees, and we have never had to remember the fact that they fasted. Is there any logic in this fast?
Simply put, the Esther fast is not like other fasts and is not about making amends. It is a means of identifying with what was then. You do not fast because they fasted then, but because they fasted then. This is the way that the Sages saw fit to remember everything that happened then. Like on Purim, which is remembered in a different way. And perhaps the Sages want to convey to us the upheaval that the Jews went through then, fasting and fasting for redemption.
Why do the Sages actually want to change a generally accepted law that has gained validity and spread among all schools of thought?
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I am sorry, on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar; and rest, on the fourteenth of it, and make it a day of feasting and gladness. 18 And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered together on the thirteenth of it, and on the fourteenth of it; and rest, on the fifteenth of it, and make it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the Persians that dwelt in the cities of the Persians made the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day of gladness, and a feast, and a good day; and sent portions, every man to his neighbour. 20 And Mordecai wrote these things; and he sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far. 21 To establish, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day thereof, year by year. 22 As the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned from mourning to joy, and from mourning to a good day; to make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions, each to his neighbor, and gifts to the poor. 23 And the Jews accepted what they had begun to do; and what Mordecai had written to them.
There is no customary mention of fasting at all, so why involve a sense of shaking? This is the opposite of what is needed.
Suppose a person was seriously ill (that could kill him at any moment) and he fasted and repented and God healed him. Should he go and make that day a regular fast every year? Do you think so?
B. When did the Sages decide that the shaking was necessary?
The very reading of the scroll brings to mind the great and immense providence that He sent to His people Israel.
Rabbi, are these Jews only from the seed of Judah or from all the tribes? Because nowadays everyone practices Purim without exception.
And if there was a mention of fasting in the Megillah, even then you would ask why the sages of that generation (of the Megillah itself) changed the halakha. In what way are they superior to the sages of later generations? That is what they saw fit, and I see nothing wrong with that. Perhaps they saw that the reading of the Megillah was not working properly and thought it was more appropriate to pass on the upheaval of that time to us.
It doesn't work that way, to convey a shock or a shock, you need a real threat. In the Megillah, the real threat is all but over, and this is the idea in the Megillah to rejoice in our lives and that we were saved despite the (in the opinion of the Gentiles) bad fate that should have come to us because of the forgery that determined the day of our destruction. Despite all the plots (salvation is coming, even without Esther, salvation would have come from another place because there is providence) that's what Mordechai believed.
It's good that you didn't say that we would go and destroy our enemies these days, didn't you exaggerate, Honorable Rabbi, when you argued against me about how they are superior to the sages of future generations? So there is no meaning to fasting and it doesn't cause a shock at all, and the reading of the Megillah is not affected by fasting.
Apparently, everyone will remain in their position.
In every generation, people stand against us to destroy us, and God saves us from them.
Generation after generation and its sages Generation after generation and its scholars — Mordechai alone decided for everyone to receive these days of Purim every year
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