“But Purim is a time to have fun,” says Blum, and on that note students were having good fun at a midnight masquerade hosted by the Blum’s at their small west side apartment last night. On a campus buzzing with intellectual verve and brimming with ideas, Chabad sees every encounter with students as an opportunity to match their inquisitive minds with insights that drive them to probe ever deeper. “But it really set us thinking and delving deeper into the significance behind the symbolic Purim rituals,” she says. It was a tough question, says Simone Speed, a junior majoring in environmental biology, and president of Chai Society, Chabad’s student club on campus. In the spirit of Purim, Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Columbia, Rabbi Yonah Blum, asked students, “What masks do you wear in your daily life?
But this time, a bonus question was put to each of the students.
At a pre-Purim Shabbat dinner last Friday night at Chabad of Columbia University, students took turns introducing themselves-as is the routine here.
