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MISHENICHNAS ADAR MARBIM B'SIMCHA
It’s been a long Adar so far - over a month and a half long - and we’re in the home stretch of the race towards Nissan.

Some say that the association of Simcha applies to both Adars and to the Nissan that follows. As Adar enters, we sense the mood and mode of Geula. As Purim passes and Nissan and Pesach are just around the corner, our excitement in not just the celebration of Geulas past, but in hopeful anticipation of the possibly imminent Complete Geula, captures our moods. This is the essence of Simcha - not as much the joy of the moment, but the joyful optimism of great things to come. This optimism and the simcha it brings can only be sustained by our commitment to Torah and Mitzvot. That commitment makes our simcha real.

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