josh31: i dont think any frum yid killed another person when he was drunk on Purim. if your reason you cant get drunk on purim is because you might kill someone thats ridiculus and preposterous
Flatbush, I would love to know how you can write with such certitude. It would be nice to believe what you posted, but you happen to be wearing rose-colored glasses. I cannot go into details, but a boy in my neighborhood caused a very serious accident one Purim from his “adherence” to this mitzvah, and I doubt any rov would say that he will be getting any sachar for that. He also caused a great chillul Hashem at the time, because a non-Jew was one of the victims. I reiterate my concern that the rabbonim who strongly believed in the “ad d’lo yada” drinking, lived in a time when people did not operate dangerous vehicles or machinery, and lived in small towns, not going out of their daled amos while drunk, as so many of our youth are doing under the guise of simchas purim, or worse, collecting tzedaka. And any adult who offers them a drink is BEGGING to be sued if anything bad should happen as a result.
I have an alternative idea. Let the boys congregate in one home (where they will spend the entire night), and limit them to X number of drinks (say, 3) under adult supervision. This will ensure that no one is out driving drunk, vomiting on someone’s lawn (which happened to me a few years ago, as I live next door to a boys’ yeshivah high school and the wonderful young men decided my backyard was their personal toilet), or getting into trouble. It would need to be someone with a large rumpus room, to accommodate the group. At least they would be safe and not causing trouble anywhere. And if one got too rowdy, the parents could easily be reached to come get their offspring.