Yosef Chaim’s Purim Miracle

“O y! What will we do for Purim?!” Ima wondered. “I have to go look after Saba in Be’er Sheva for a week. But who will organize Purim all the mishloach manot and the invitations to our Purim seudah?!”

My ears perked up.

“Ima don’t worry! I’m big enough to organize it all and the rest of the kids will help me.”

Ima looked at me doubtfully.

“Yosef Chaim are you sure? It’s a lot of work you have to make up all the mishloach manot and deliver them to the right addresses and write out and send the invitations to the right addresses too.”

You have to understand — Purim is biiiiig by us. You know we’re Moroccan and when it comes to food Moroccans just have to go over the top. We can’t just send a few mishloach manot to a few neighbors and our rabbanim and we’re done. No we make up a million packages (actually around 50) and hand them out to practically the whole town! And our seudah… well when my Ima cooks she really cooks and there is enough food at our Purim seudah to feed most of the town too. And we don’t just call people to invite them; we send out fancy invites in the mail.