There are very few Jews in the world who can get shikker strictly l’shem mitzvah, and you and I both know it. The VAST majority of people who are drinking, do so, because Purim is “legal” for them, not because they are on such a high madreiga of holiness that their SOLE intention is to be mekayeim the mitzvah. Maybe at one time, Jews were on such a level, but now, the attempt to fulfill this mitzvah does NOT lead to good things for too many people. And given that many of today’s mainstream Rabbonim pasken that it is assur to get THAT drunk, and also given the fact that there are people here who are continually saying that the chumros of today are necessary because of all the hashpaa of the goyishe velt or new knowledge that we have about things (so that kulos of olden times vis a vis stuff like worms in fish, should not be held, but we should be more strict, based on our present Gedolim), it seems mighty odd to me that the ONE thing you guys are holding onto from the past is ad d’lo yada yada yada. I’m just sayin’….
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