Yaffa ganz biography of abraham

JEWISH tradition teaches that in the future "days to come," all of the holidays will be canceled except for Purim, the most free-wheeling, noisy, disorderly, feast and drink filled day in the Jewish year.

Why should a rousing, boisterous, "minor," one-day, rabbinically ordained holiday that doesn't even rate the saying of the thanksgiving prayer, Hallel, be with us forever, while major, Divinely ordained holidays such as Passover, Shavuos and Sukkos will not?

It always seemed strange, but who am I to argue with well established Jewish tradition? However these past, difficult, eighteen months in the Holy Land have given me an inkling of an answer.

When everything seems dark; when solutions to a chaotic, dangerous world with political, military, economic and spiritual problems, are nowhere in sight; when we are seemingly in such dire need of practical, realistic guidelines (even though they rarely set the world aright) - in these threatening, depressing, what-can-we-do