Reply To: maybe we all should stop getting drunk on purim

DY: Don’t pull punches. I said I don’t actually think that (sort of). But the fact that it’s not an immediately illegitimate train of thought should say something scary about what Purim has become. I have spoken to numerous elderly people (Rabbonim and laymen) and every single one has told me that Purim in Europe was nothing like how we drink now. Very few, if any, got plastered the way a large majority of Yeshiva guys do now. Honestly, this sounds like a perfect case that fits the Rupture and Reconstruction theme.