March 2009 Newsletter

Posted on March 29, 2009

Volume LXVI, Issue 6

Be Happy.  It’s Adar!

So often, we think of the sad moments in Jewish life.  We remember destruction, turmoil, expulsions, and murder.  How odd it must seem, then, to be specifically told to be happy.  Actually, the passage says that we are to increase our happiness from the time the month of Adar begins up until Purim.  I want to suggest that we extend it beyond Purim, and this year especially see that we keep going, at least until the Miller Music Festival…