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The first letters of קבל את הפתק או קבל מכות
have the numerical value of נחמן - Rabbainu!
How many Makot do you think it would take to convince you of the authenticity of the Petek?
Before Moshe Rabbainu gave his Makot, the Divine name that killed the Egyptian, the Tora tells us he looked כה וכה, so כה מכות is the numerical value of נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן. Therefore it seems that 25 would do the trick.
It would seem to me that Purim should be spelled without the vuv, so that it could be single - quadrupled. Rabbainu actually does this to Purim, explaining that first we are in the exile where speech - פ - is entrapped. Then there is פר, which is the aspect of the lots that haman casts, and the aspect of the lots the High Priest cast on the day likened to Purim, which is the beginning of the process which is succeeded by the פרה red heifer (the ה and י are often used similarly in Hebrew suffixes), and then there is פורים.
Great blessings of Na Nach Nachmu Nachman Meuman!
BTW, right now there is discussion of a major Nanach getogether Purim night in Monsey to be continued in the day in Lakewood.
NNNNM!
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forcing nanach? doesn't sound so na nach
its purim - vnahafhochu
v'ha'nanach'hu
מכת תורה ארבעים חסר אחת אומדין אותו אם יש לו ללקות לוקה ואם לאו אינו לוקה
מכת מרדות אינו כן אלא מכין אותו עד שיקבל עליו או עד שתצא נפשו
(Tosefta Makos 3:10)
See Rivash to Chullin 141, who comments that Makas Mardus is given "until his soul leaves him" only when it is given as a preventative measure, in order to force a person to fulfill a Mitzvas Aseh mid'Oraisa that he refuses to fulfill.
See Rashi to Sanhedrin 7b that Makas Mardus are administered with a stick, not a whip.
Could we imagine beis din beating the not-Nach Nach with a Na Nach stick until he fulfills the positive mitzvah of saying Na Nach Nachma Nachman meUman?
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