Mishenichnas adar marbin besimcha📆🎉

This year so easy to fulfill:- By listening to the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump, on the very 1st evening of Adar hoRischon, by the best president we have ever had.

Nope

I save my tolerance (or lack thereof) for Purim

My husband makes a siyum every day. Some days he makes a siyum of a mesechta and other days he makes a a siyum of Jonny Walker. Since women are also mechuyiv in this halacha of “Mishenichnas adar marbin besimcha” – I join him!

When we go on vacation, my husband always brings along 10 bottles of scotch – because a Yid needs to always have a minyan. I asked him once, why 10 bottles, isn’t 9 bottles plus you you a minyan? He patiently expkined that the 10 bottles are the minyan and he is the bais hamedrash in which the minyan enters. Be b’simcha tomid. Ad dilo yada!

There are those who say the Mishenichnas Adar we increase the simcha. And we continue to increase until Rosh Chodesh Av, when we are mema’et just a little bit. Let’s see what he looks like on 29 Tammuz!!

Hopefully, this year, we will see a bit less of the mindless equivalence of “Simcha” with “inebriation” . All the leaders of Hatazalah organizations here and in EY have made clear that the “marbin” some invoke to drink excessively in the days leading up to Purim and especially on Purim itself sets up tragic outcomes. Fortunately, more rabbonim each year take clear and unequivocal stands against the “adsheloyadah syndrome” and admonish their talmidim to strictly limit their intake. Lets hope this year there will be more responsibility exercised along with Simcha machers.

Haimy; No need to wait, the Rema writes clearly in the last siman of Orach Chaim, “vetov lev misheh tomid”.

Buy the teenagers alcohol. They can’t rebel if you cooperate.

Adults shouldn’t be allowed to drink because they can drive.

RebYid: Following your logic, adults shouldn’t be allowed to have knives because they can injure someone…but guess what? Adults CAN have knives, because presumably, they will act responsibly and not hurt anyone with the knives…drinking too, when one begins to drink, if he needs transportation, there is a designated driver or uber or the keys are given to someone else …but let’s continue with your logic: Adults that do not (or can not) drive CAN drink without restrictions?!!

Knives are different because they are protected under the 2nd amendment, and that makes them good. Everyone should have several.

Apparently, all of the yiddeshe lunar calendars distributed by the mosdos in their annual fundraising appeals were wrong and rosh chodesh adar rishon really began at noon on January 20, 2017 since there is now substantial evidence showing that a large portion of the frumme tzibur began marbin b’simcha at that hour and have exceeded any possible inyan of adsheloyadah since that time judging by their collective political and social commentary posted on discussion blogs, social media etc. The actual duration of such such an “extended” leap month (measured in years under Gregorian Calenar standards) is unknown.