Olam Hazeh is kiveyachol Hashem’s costume
“…and they rested on the fourteenth and made it a day of feasting and joy” (Megillas Esther 9:17)
T
he Sefer Hayetzirah states every month has a different prevalent koach hanefesh. Adar’s power is laughter, appropriate for Purim.
The Gemara in Rosh Hashanah (10b) discusses a machlokes between Rav Eliezer and Rav Yehoshua about when the world was created. We rule like Rav Yehoshua that creation started on the 25th of Adar. Since the dominant power of Adar is laughter, is this the underlying power of creation? Is This World one big joke?
Furthermore, we say in Tehillim (126:2): “Then our mouths will be filled with laughter.” But that’s referring to some time in the future, not to the present time. Is Olam Hazeh really a place of unbridled laughter?
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