Listen: Rav Berland shlit"a Explains Why We Dress Up and Why We Pray in Public

The lesson of the esteemed gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a from the morning of the 14th of Adar, 5778. "The whole advantage of prayer in public is, 'And they cried out to Hashem with strength,' when a person is alone, he can cry out to Hashem for 5, 10 minutes, but when he is in public, he can cry out to Hashem for 24 hours. Therefore, the prayers in public were established so that people could cry out to Hashem with all their might, to exert all their strength in cries. Those who have not cried out until now will cry out from now, from Purim, and those who have not prayed will start praying from now."

"There are costumes that should not be given up all year, if he is a good child, he should continue with it all year. On this, the Ramban says in Parshat Bo in the laws of clothing (the last Ramban in Parshat Bo) that we dress up on Purim in order to rectify all the nations of the world. By dressing in the clothes of all the nations of the world, we clarify the good that exists in all the nations of the world."

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