Reply To: Distressed in Brooklyn

I’m happy to announce that I reached out to my acquaintance after Purim’s conclusion, trying to return him to the proper path, and he informed me that in fact, the whole episode had a most relieving ending.

His wife had made an elaborate ????? ???? with a hand theme, since Purim was on Thursday which is the fifth day of the week, and a hand has five fingers. The thing is, she had been planning on including “hand”les on the basket, but forgot to pick them up from the store, which was closed on Purim, so it was missing one reference to the theme, and besides, everything in the basket already had the same b’racha, so the whole thing was ruined.

My acquaintance, sweet thing that he is, told her to put in a bottle of wine with a rhyme that read, “You may drink wine, although it’s not a demand/Drunks get out of hand“. So the mishloach manos was not only salvaged, it even had a poem in it.

In gratitude to him, and perhaps in order not to contradict her own poetic message, she allowed him to drink, so long as it didn’t get too out of hand. He made a mistake and overdrank, being mikayyeim the mitzvah, without making her too upset.

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