OVKTD:
“Do you say “hanosein layo’eif koach?” The Shulchan Aruch says you shouldn’t.”
Come on, there things the Mishna Berura says that we don’t follow too.
“If you pick and choose different opinions for different things,(the ones that are most convenient for you), you’ll end up with a big mess of a Judaism.”
True. All I was pointing out is that don’t go all “how can you possibly be more machmir than the Chofetz Chaim”, there are plenty of prominent poskim that are indeed machmir in this case.
“More and more rabbonim are starting to come out against getting drunk on Purim. In 2008, the Yated Ne’eman printed a statement from the Mo’etzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisroel, condemning giving drinks to bochurim, especially drinks other than wine, (for which there is NO MITZVA), and signed by 47 rabbonim.”
Huh? Coming out against giving drinks to minors is a far cry from saying nobody should get drunk on Purim.
“If your rav says that you should get drunk, then go right ahead.”
Actually, my Rov spends Purim in his dining room completely and thoroughly stoned. He also holds that the mitzva of getting drunk is a din in simchas ha’yom not the seudah, so he holds one should be drunk all day. I kid you not. However, obviously most others do not hold like this.
BTW, I have no problem with people who follow their Rov and do not get drunk on Purim. (Though I have yet to hear of a Possek who does not say to drink at least some wine, so I’m not sure what the people who have a completely dry Purim rely on.) My problem is with people who decide that everybody who does get drunk is doing the biggest aveira in the world and go all hysterical about how bad it is, how there’s no mekur, etc. That’s simply not true. Many prominent Poskim hold it is a chiyuv to get completely stoned, and those who do so have more than enough to rely on.