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THIS WEEK'S TOPICS:

• Lessons from 9 Adar and Tetzaveh 

      o What is the significance of the Frierdiker Rebbe's arrival to the “lower hemisphere?  

      o What can we learn from this about battling the godless “communists” of our time? 

      o Why is Moshe’s name not mentioned in this parsha? 

• Chassidus Applied to Purim 

      o What is the significance of the mitzvah of eradicating Amalek?  

      o Why would G-d create evil people and then command us to obliterate them? 

      o Why don’t we hoot when King Saul’s name is mentioned? 

      o Why does the Megillah start with a party that happened years before the main part of the story? 

      o Why are Pesachia and Hadassah called by their secular Persian names, Mordechai and Esther? 

      o What ever happened to Vashti? 

      o What happened to Achashverosh after the Purim story in the Megillah? 

       o Did Haman work in a barber shop before getting a job in Achashverosh's court? 

      o Why is there a custom to wear masks on Purim? 

      o Is there a connection to Covid masks? 

      o Why did the Rebbe not wear a costume on Purim if that is the custom? 

• What is special about the month of Adar? Should one push off a court case to this month? 

• Is there spiritual significance to the landing on Mars and the general exploration of space? 

• Follow-up: Bizbuz ha’otzros 

• Chassidus question: How do we explain the statement cited in Chassidus that Yom Kippurim is only like Purim? 

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