On March 9 at 6pm, I invite you to have fun, and change everything. We are confronted every day with news about illness, war, and cruelty. We need to take them very seriously. And sometimes we also need a day of disruption to believe that we can disrupt the world's challenges. On Purim, we change our clothes, our tolerance for noise and interruptions, and for some, our sobriety, as we listen to the story of a woman who changed the fate of her entire people and the empire in which she lived. 

So let's come together and look ridiculous, make one another laugh, encourage each other to be irreverent, and eat as many hamentashen and drink as much wine/juice as we please. Sometimes it's ok to laugh. Some of us may be out of practice. It's time to retrain ourselves. 

And as we laugh at the impossible, and smile at the seemingly absurd, we may begin to believe that we always have the power to transform ourselves. And maybe even the power to transform the world.

Chag Purim Sameach.