Reply To: Any heter to not get drunk on Purim?

If I was trying to point out that there are many sourses which hold of some form of drinking then I would in fact group category two with category one.

It’s more than merely “some form of drinking”; category two typically would be reaching the point of some form of drunkenness.

I was being sarcastic.

I understood you were being sarcastic. But even your use of sarcasm gives an indication of inclination.

Which leads me to wonder what is so special about that.

It is somewhat analogous to a Brisker or BMG talmud citing Rabbi Kook or Rabbi JB Soloveitchik for halachic support. RMK was about as far on the right side of the spectrum as any posek (i.e. see his positions regarding mesira.) In any event, that was just a cutesy comment.

BTW, unless you are Sephardic why do you use non-Ashkenazic Hebew pronunciations (such as your referring to the “Beit” Yosef)?