Machatzit HaShekel: How Getting Drunk, Dressing Up and Ignoring Hashem Hold the Key to Understanding Purim.

BY Rabbi Ian Pear

Mar 04, 2018

Purim

Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 13 Adar 5778 (February 28, 2018)

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