The message of Purim is a microcosm of Jewish history and the repeated Jewish threat to our existence, not merely from the outside, but the threat to our existence from assimilation.

The hand of friendship can make it very easy to forget that we stood at Sinai and are bound to God by an eternal covenant.

Why do we specifically bless our children to be like Ephraim and Menashe? Why not bless them that they should be like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? David? Moses?

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