Purim Perspectives on Simcha # BY 554 A
by Berkovits, Rabbi Yitzchak
The mitzvah of Purim is to suspend our logic and to realize that everything that happens is from Hashem and to know that therefore it is good. The reason that Purim is named for the lots that Haman drew is because we are celebrating that what appears to be trouble is not. We have to be happy that Hashem knows what he is doing, because we do not. We have to understand that even though we do not know what is going to happen we know that it is for the good.
We are celebrating blind faith, but it is not really blind, because we have Purim to back it up. This is why there is a mitzvah to drink until we don't know, we want to remember that we don't ever really know, only Hashem knows.
To prepare for Purim we should make our own Megilah. Look back at our lives and realize that the seemingly bad things in our lives where there for a reason, and they all come together to bring us to where we need to be.
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