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Israel
Alert Newsletter
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Purim
EDITION
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12 Adar
5773
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February
22, 2013
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It's Purim Time!
It's Purim time! Purim, the holiday that
celebrates the Jewish's people
deliverance from the evil plot of Haman, is
observed on the 14th of
Adar, which this year is Sunday February
24. In places that were
surrounded by a wall in the times of Joshua when he
conquered the Land of
Israel - Purim is observed on the next day, the 15th
of Adar.
But with minor exception, a 15th of Adar Purim is
only observed in Jerusalem.
The story of Purim is the subject of the Book of
Esther, colloquially referred
to as Megillat Esther - the Scroll of Esther. Here
we will briefly share with
you the major points of the story (Warning:
Traditional Purim silliness and
humor included!
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Gift Baskets to Families of
Terror
Victims
Your participation in the UWI Purim
Campaign will provide Israel's
victims of
terror with much deserved comfort
and joy. Unfortunately, there are
thousands
of terror victims who have suffered
greatly and need our compassion and
love.
We are proud to support Israel's
victims of terror and their
families. Purim
gift baskets to Israel are not US
tax deductible. All gift
baskets will
be greatly appreciated by the
families and children. Thank you
for sharing
Purim joy with Israel's victims of
terror.
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Parallels Between Iran's
Ahmadinejad and Haman
According to the Meam
Loez commentary on the
Tanakh: "In every
generation, Amelek rises
to destroy us and each
time he clothes himself in a
different nation."
For our generation,
Israeli President Shimon Peres has
proclaimed,
Ahmadinejad is
the "modern day Haman," the
Amalekite who sought to
slaughter the Jewish
people in the Persian Empire
(which in now modern day
Iran).
As Rabbi Israel Rosen
asserted, both
Ahmadinejad and Haman are
"characterized not
only by their
meaningless hatred, but by their
compulsive animosity. A
'real' Amalekite is
absorbed and consumed with hatred
of Israel which
nourishes him 24 hours
a day, when he's awake and in his dreams.
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Incredible Parallels Between the Purim Story and the Nuremberg
Trials
Numerous commentators have noted that there is an uncanny resemblance
between the hanging of Haman's ten sons in the Purim story and the Nuremberg
Trials following the Second World War, when 10 Nazis war criminals
were hung for the crimes against humanity that they committed. Additionally, in
the
Purim story, the Talmud claims that Haman's daughter committed suicide and
thus didn't need to get killed.
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I purposely only quoted half the verse above from the
book of
Esther. Often when I speak with groups about the
Book of Esther I will
quote the above half verse and ask them to guess what the
rest of the verse is.
Of course you need to know the background first. The wicked
Haman has plotted
to exterminate the Jewish people and Mordechai, the leader
of the Jews, gets
wind of this. Prior to these events Mordechai's relative
Esther became queen of
Persia when she was selected by King Ahaseurus to be the
next queen.
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Purim and
Yom Kippur: Which is More
Holy?
On Sunday
February 24, 2013
we will be celebrating the Holiday
of Purim. Purim commemorates the
Hitlerian
and Ahmadinejadian plans of the
evil Haman to exterminate the Jewish
people.
To make a long story
short, Queen Esther and her
cousin Mordechai discover Haman's
evil plan to kill
the Jews and convince King
Achashverosh to rescind the
decree.
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Jewish communities around the world have some common ways of celebrating Purim,
yet at the same time possess traditions that differ depending on location. For
example, Jews across the planet traditionally read Megillat Esther
(Scroll of Esther) in the synagogue. However, Ashkenazi children will
bring noise-makers to the synagogue and cause as much ruckus as possible
whenever the name of the evil Persian Prime Minister Haman is mentioned.
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