This short Drash speaks for itself. Chag Sameach.
I’ll tell you something very deep.
We learn that Yom Kippur is Yom Kippurim- a day a little bit like Purim. Ah- but it doesn’t make it.
On Yom Kipper I’m standing before G-d and I realize I’ve made so many mistakes, but on Purim it’s something else.
I realize that all my mistakes came because I didn’t receive life properly.
On Yom Kippur we stand before G-d and ask him for forgiveness. On Purim I’m not asking for forgiveness.
Imagine I love this girl very much and I hurt her feelings. Then I meet her
after a few years, and for three days we discuss how I hurt her, how she hurt me.
Let me ask, how does this sound to you? Very unbelievably stupid. What is there to talk about?
When I love somebody very much I’m just so glad to see them! Who cares what you did yesterday?
Yom Kippur is very high but I’m still talking about what I did yesterday.
On Purim I am so close to G-d, the inside of my inside of my inside and I cannot talk about the details.
On Purim I’m receiving life, and I know I just love you so much, for no reason.
-Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
About Shlomo Carlebach from last.fm:
Shlomo Carlebach (שלמה קרליבך) (known as Reb Shlomo to his followers) (January 14, 1925, Berlin—October 20, 1994, Canada) was a Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as “The Singing Rabbi” during his lifetime. Although his roots lay in traditional Orthodox yeshivot, he branched out to create his own movement combining Hasidic-style warmth and personal interaction, public concerts, and song-filled synagogue services. At various times he lived in Manhattan, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Moshav Mevo Modi’im, Israel.
Carlebach is considered by many to be the foremost Jewish religious songwriter in the second half of the 20th century. In a career that spanned over 30 years, he recorded more than 25 albums that continue to have wide popularity and appeal. His influence also continues to this day in so-called “Carlebach minyanim” located in many cities around the globe.
Many of the bands today within the genre of Jewish Rock And Soul are greatly influenced by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s melodies and songs.
Carlebach began writing songs at the end of the 1950s, primarily based on verses from Tanakh set to his own music. Although he composed thousands of songs, he couldn’t read musical notes. Many of his soulful renderings of Torah verses became standards in the wider Jewish community, including Am Yisrael Chai (” Nation Israel Lives”—composed on behalf of Soviet Jewry in the mid-1960s), Pischu Li (“Open For Me “) and Barchi Nafshi (“May My Soul Bless God”).
His public singing career began in Greenwich Village, where he met Bob Dylan and other folk singers. He sought out and used the same producers as used by famous folk artists.
