Purim: Expect the Unexpected (Ep. 164)

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Purim can help us recognize how little we really know.


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❓ Questions of the Week: 

  1. "How come whenever I drink tea I get a pain in my eye?"

  2. "What should a person drink on purim?

  3. "The Gemara says that Vashti didn't want to come before Achashverosh because she had grown a tail. That's right at the beginning of the Megillah. Why is that significant?

  4. "What is the punishment for forgetting מוריד הטל ?

  5. "During Purim we hear about the Amelekites. We hear about the Hittites, the Edomites, and the Caananites. What it the significance of the Samsonites?

  6. "What is the opposite of progress?

  7. "What is faster, to New York or by bus?



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Chapters


[00:00] Intro

[00:55] Purim: Expect the Unexpected

[26:25] Q&A: Purim questions

[32:31] Outro


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