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PURIM umerous factors contributed to the salvation of the Jewish people from Haman's decree, not least amongst them Mordechai’s rousing of the Jews to repentance and Esther's efforts on their behalf.

Yet the name of the festival - the one word chosen to express its essence - refers to a seemingly minor detail: the fact that Haman selected the date of his proposed annihilation of the Jews by casting lots (pur is Persian for "lot"). Obviously, the significance of Haman's lots lies at the very heart of what Purim is all about.

Why did Haman cast lots?

Because he was attempting to break what, to his mind, was a "vicious cycle" that had been plaguing him and his ilk since the appearance of the Jewish nation a thousand years earlier.

Many great and powerful men, from Pharaoh to Nebuchadnezzar - not to mention Haman's own ancestors, the Amalekites had tried to destroy these people. Granted, the Jews have a great and powerful G-d, but they also have this inane habit of angering Him with their transgressions. All one needs to do, it would seem, is wait for such an opportune moment. But always, at the very last minute, the Jews repent and, time and again, their G-d is reconciled with them and saves them.

Haman knew that the Jews had sinned yet again by worshipping Nebuchadnezzar's idol and partaking of Achashverosh's feast; but who knows how long their estrangement from G-d will last this time?

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As long as our plans hinge upon the virtue or iniquity of Israel, reasoned Haman, we'll just have a repeat of the same old scenario. A more basic approach is called for. Can it be that G-d really cares about one people more than another? Can it be that He is truly pleased by "good" deeds and angered by "bad" ones? Surely G-d is beyond all that.

There might be a level of reality on which goodness is rewarded and evil is punished, but on a higher plane, these things are obviously meaningless. On that level, a truly infinite G-d has no concern with what goes on in the material world, and the prime minister of the mightiest empire on earth can do what he chooses to a small, dispersed minority.

So Haman cast lots, hoping to "connect" to that level of reality that transcends the laws of good and evil - to that level of reality on which, he believed, everything is up for grabs, as free of any moral rules as a throw of dice.

What Haman failed to realize was that the people of Israel are G-d's chosen people - that even on the level of divine "choice," which transcends all logical criteria, G-d desires them and protects them. It is true that G-d, in essence, is beyond it all; but this very G-d chose - for no other reason than such was His desire - to take the people of Israel as His own.

The Jew always knows this in the deepest part of his soul, even if his external behavior may, at times, run awry of this realization.

This, ultimately, is the reason why we always return to G-d, and why G-d always forgives us in the end.

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Grease cookie sheets.

2. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until lightly and fluffy. Stir in the oil, vanilla and orange juice. Combine the flour and baking powder; stir into the batter to form a stiff dough. If dough is not stiff enough to roll out, stir in more flour. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough out to 1/4 inch in thickness. Cut into circles using a cookie cutter or the rim of a drinking glass.

Place cookies 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets. Spoon about 2 teaspoons of preserves into the center of each one. Pinch the edges to form three corners.

3. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

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Your Kashrus Questions…Answered Tartaric Acid / Cream of Tartar

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I read that tartaric acid is made from wine or grape juice. Does that mean that kosher tartaric acid is made from kosher wine?

Shulchan Aruch YD 123:16 rules that the A.barrelsdeposits which collect on the inside walls of used for non-kosher wine are permitted if those deposits dried on the barrel-wall for 12 months. The reason for that leniency is that after the deposits dry for that long they are treated like “dirt” (non-food) and are permitted even though the source of those deposits is non-kosher wine. [This halacha does not apply to all issurim.] It is these deposits which are used to produce tartaric acid and cream of tartar (see Darchei Teshuvah 123:53), and they are therefore kosher even when produced from non-kosher wine.

Nowadays, these materials are not made from 12-month old deposits, but rather from grapebased items which have been mechanically dried over the course of a few hours. Some rule that the leniency only applies to the exact case discussed in Shulchan Aruch and therefore do not consider mechanically-dried tartaric acid to be kosher unless it is made from kosher wine.

However, the cRc and most American Hashgachos follow the lenient approach which argues that the product is kosher as long as the mechanical drying mimics the (moisture-reducing qualities of the) 12-month air-drying.

Brandy (non-kosher) in dough Someone mixed non-kosher brandy into Q. dough.

Is it batel b’shishah or b’shishim?

Brandy is a distilled product made from A.any other pure wine and typically it would not have ingredients of significance. [Distillation is a process which uses heat to concentrate

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alcoholic beverages via separating the (desirable) alcohol from the (less-desirable) water.]

The primary reason why a brandy would be not kosher is because it is stam yayin (wine touched by a non-Jew), and the bitul/nullification of stam yayin has a unique halacha. If stam yayin was mixed into a beverage (other than wine) it is batel b’shishah (batel if diluted in 6 times its volume) and if was mixed into a solid food then it requires the standard bitul b’shishim. [For more on this see Shulchan Aruch YD 134:2 & 5, Taz 114:4, Nekudos HaKesef ad loc., and Iggeros Moshe YD 1:62.]

Accordingly, in this situation, the dough is only permitted if it contained 60 times the volume of the brandy.

Broccoli and Cauliflower I was wondering what the difference is Q. between broccoli and cauliflower; why when it comes to broccoli do your guidelines say that it’s close to impossible to check and for cauliflower you provide directions? have found that bugs often crawl into A.ficulttheWeandflorets of broccoli, and that it very diftedious for people to properly check through the tiny spaces between the parts of the floret. Accordingly, we do not recommend that consumers attempt to clean or check broccoli, and we do not allow cRc certified facilities to use fresh broccoli. [Frozen broccoli with proper kosher certification is acceptable for use.]

In contrast, our experience is that cauliflower florets are packed together so tightly that bugs are almost never found within the floret, and they are only found in the large and small branches that support the floret. Therefore that area does not need checking and we were able to write a procedure for washing and checking the rest of the food.

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