Purim: Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Meah Shearim, Old City 2016
I heard Megillah six times this Purim. The rule is to stay focused on each word and to see the relevance of G-d's direction in our lives even when cloaked in seemingly happenchance affairs; seeing G-d's handiwork for the miracle that it really is. When surprisingly good things happen it can be excused away as: "wasn't it fortunate that it just so happened..." The Megillah's message is that it was divinely and precisely directed.
The army chaplain must know the Megillah by heart after reading it at so many prisons. The elderly dati reader that sounded like he had taught many a Bar Mitzvah lesson, mimicked nasal character voices when reading the dramatic turning point parts. The reader in Meah Shearim couldn't be seen and my son in law's reading in the Old city of Jerusalem of course was the best. Musically correct and perfectly timed.
The army chaplain must know the Megillah by heart after reading it at so many prisons. The elderly dati reader that sounded like he had taught many a Bar Mitzvah lesson, mimicked nasal character voices when reading the dramatic turning point parts. The reader in Meah Shearim couldn't be seen and my son in law's reading in the Old city of Jerusalem of course was the best. Musically correct and perfectly timed.