It saysin the Tikkunei Zohar (57b) that Purim is like Yom HaKippurim; The Piaseczner Rebbe writes that this alludes to a fundamental similarity in the two days. On Yom Kippur, we fast and do teshuvah whether we want to or not because it is a gezeirah from HaKadosh Boruch Hu. So too by the simchah of Purim, it is not that if a person is already happy on his own or is in a situation where he can make hismlef happy that he must be mesamei’ach on Purim. Rather, even if a person is in a lowly state and has a shattered heart, his mind and spirit downcast, it is a mitzvah that some spark of joy must enter his heart on Purim.
By Yom Kippur, the day itself atones for our aveirot, even if we have not done a complete teshuvah. So too on Purim, even though a person may not be as happy and joyous as he should be, thus resulting in an incomplete avodah of Purim, the day still activates yeshu’ah and simchah over Bnei Yisrael.
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