Purim - Day 1 (Part 2)

Moshe sat down and began to play his new tune.

Meanwhile, inside the house Justin was abusing children and stealing their bodyparts.

The shiur had bought the rebbe a goat. They had stashed it for the few days before Purim behind the new Reishit gym, feeding it every once in a while some grass and chumus. He was to be "a new member in the shiur," one Fruchter reported. He came to the rebbe's house for the seuda and was tied up in the backyard. He didn't do much but complain. He wouldn't eat. He wouldn't sing. He wouldn't smoke.


"If you ask me, this goat is depressed," one Stollel member noted. We heard a booming voice..."Did you say depressed?! On Purim!?!"They came from every direction. Na Nachers. Climbing over fences, bursting through doors.

I don't remember what happened next but the goat was being dragged through the house and making strange noises. He was taken outside and forcibly placed on top of a Na Nach van which had fallen out of the sky onto Nachal Shimshon. If this goat wasn't going to be happy on Purim, the Na Nachers were going to force him to be.

They took the goat inside the van and slowly drove off into the clouds. The goat was never seen again.

The Seuda had begun, was underway, and was building speed. It was true what they say: There was chicken. There was everything.

[There were some videos of the seuda but it seemed strange to put them up. Visual pictures will have to suffice.]

Even Rav Mendel's kids found their way over.

The seuda came to an "end." Moshe had made his way over at some point and had fallen asleep. Nobody could stir him, not even the mitzvah tree.


"Wow, this has been a great day," said one bachur passed out on the couch.

"It has been," noted his friend, "but usually on Purim we get to see the beard of glory."

"The beard of glory? What's that?"

And then, as if on cue, he entered the room.

There were sleeping bodies in every corner of the house. Physically, mentally and certainly spiritually drained, we all fell asleep. We knew it had begun but we knew we would need our strength for tomorrow, for tomorrow we were heading to Jerusalem...

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TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR MORE PURIM ADVENTURE!