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Excerpts from a Michtav Klali (dated 11 Adar II) of the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach for Purim in the year 5741 (1981), which was a Hakhel year when Purim came out of Friday like this year:

…With only several days left to Purim, it is high time to remind ourselves and others about all that has to be done in connection with Purim, particularly in keeping with its special features this year:

This coming Purim occurs on the sixth day of the week, the day on which the first man, Adam, was created, and he immediately called upon all the Creation to acknowledge the Creator as King of the Universe; which is why we will say this Purim the Psalm “Hashem is King; He has garbed Himself with grandeur”;

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…In practical terms, specifically: To strengthen and expand the preparations for Purim, with a view to enabling every Jew, “young and old, children and women,” to observe Purim in the fullest measure,

Especially involving also children, many children and all the children, boys and girls, in both the preparations for Purim and in the actual fulfillment of the Mitzvos of Purim.

And, of course, to care and provide also for Jews who find themselves in special circumstances (in military service, senior citizens’ homes, orphanages, hospitals, correctional institutions) to enable them to celebrate Purim fully.

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A further point of special relevance to this coming Purim, is in connection with the fact that when Purim occurs on a Friday, it becomes an extended Purim for the Holy City of Jerusalem, extending into Sunday in some aspects, like the Purim Seudah, rejoicing with Purim, Mishloach Monos, etc.

When Jews went into exile, after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdosh, they vowed never to forget Jerusalem, and remember it and raise it above every Simchah, as David, the Sweetener of the Songs of Israel, declares in Tehillim.

It would therefore be appropriate, indeed very much so, for Jews everywhere to make this coming Sunday (Parshas Shemini) a particularly joyous one by additional activities that produce joy: Torah study (“rejoicing the heart”), spreading joy among Jews in the spirit of Ahavas Yisroel, and if suitable or necessary—through Mishloach Monos to friends, and gifts to the poor, and particularly through gatherings to spread Yiddishkeit in the spirit of “Yerushalayim”—Yirah shleima, complete awe (of—את—Hashem),

Especially through gatherings (“hakhel”) of Jewish children, all of whom, including infants, are “Tzivos Hashem”—and

To do all the above with true joy, in accordance with the conclusion of Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, Laws of Purim: “The good-hearted feasts always.”

In this way we identify ourselves still more with Jerusalem, to which we turn every day at prayer, as it is written, “They will pray to Hashem through the city which You have chosen,” chosen and given to every Jew and to all Jews for ever, as an eternal inheritance.

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May G‑d grant that just as in the days of Mordechai and Esther it turned out that “For the Jews there was light, joy, gladness, and honor”—in the plain sense of these terms as well as in their inner meaning, as our Sages explain—so shall it be for us, and

With “Geulo following Geulo,” that after the Geulo of Purim should immediately follow the true and complete Geulo through our righteous Moshiach, a Geulo similar to the liberation from the land of Egypt,

And before that (while still in Golus) “We Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will thank You for ever; we will tell Your praise to generation and generation.”

With esteem and blessing for
Hatzlocho in all above, and for
a Joyous Purim,

/Signed: Menachem Schneerson/

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