Make Your Purim Great Again Rabbi David Kilimnick

WITH COMEDIAN DAVID KILIMNICK

Torah Tidbits turned to one of the most well known comedians in Jerusalem and asked him to share with us some ‘Purim Torah.’ Special thanks to Rabbi David for his sage wisdom and guiding us toward fulfilling the great mitzvah of being marbim be’simcha!

Purim Torah: Make Your Purim Great Again

How To Make Mishloach Manot: Advice from Rabbi David M ishloach Manot are traditionally the gift baskets of food we give to our friends and neighbors on Purim. It has thus become an important tradition to use this opportunity to get rid of stuff we don’t want. Here is my simple advice, as your rabbi, for how to give Mishloach Manot correctly:

Give Stuff You Don’t Want

Lemon wafers. Keep the chocolate wafers for yourself. You shouldn’t have bought the lemon flavor to begin with.

That was a mistake. Give them away.

You can also give your friends poppyseed hamentashen. That was not a smart purchase. Top off the package with the thimble sized Johnny Walker whiskey you stole from ELAL.

Think about your Mishloach Manot like a food drive collection bin. You have tuna you haven’t used in four years, throw it in there. Give beans, rice, anything that is taking up room in your cabinets and is past expiration. Artwork from any of your children that you should’ve thrown out, put it in there. Anything paper mâché. Don’t forget, Pesach is coming up and you’ve got to get rid of stuff. You don’t need the problem. Give it to somebody else as a care package.

Different Ways to Make Your Gift Basket Look Festive

Be creative and make it meaningful by using arts and crafts. You can take a round paper plate and turn that into a Hamentashen, by folding it over and making it a triangle. Nothing is more fun than Jewish origami. It’s like regular origami, but we use staples. We are not fools. Staples makes origami so much easier. To this day, I am surprised the people of the Far East never figured this out. You may want to be careful with

making your plate origami look too realistic, as some people might want to eat it.

Religious people use tinfoil for all holidays. It’s shiny and festive, and it can be used to blind people visiting you on Pesach. Real devout people take their tin Mishloach Manot and cover it with tinfoil. If you cover it with enough tinfoil, it might be Kosher for Pesach. Those that are not as religious use Saran wrap.

Nothing says festive like wicker. Aside from gift baskets that are made of tin, it is also acceptable to give plastic or even better, wicker. Wicker makes the perfect gift basket, as it always comes in an oval shape. Useless for storage, wicker ensures that the people receiving your gift will get no use out of the basket itself.

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Your Mishloach Manot should help your friends in preparing for Pesach, giving them one more thing to throw out. You want to give something that is not designed for use, along with the lemon wafers and poppyseed that are not designed for enjoyment.

David Kilimnick’s comedy writings can be seen regularly on Jewlarious. Known as Israel’s “Father of Anglo Comedy” (JPost), David performs at Jerusalem’s Off The Wall Comedy Theater, and travels the world with his stand-up comedy shows. David is now booking for his Honest Rabbi Preaching Funny - Rabbinically Approved Comedy Tour. See more about David at http://www.davidkilimnick.com, and bring his unique brand of Jewish comedy to your community.

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