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[table-of-contents] stripped. Purim is a joyful Jewish holiday that is celebrated in the spring. Purim traditions include dressing in costumes, giving and receiving gift baskets, and re-enacting ...
Seudat Purim: a festive meal. In the U.S., Appel explains, most people celebrate Purim by hearing the story, attending a festive meal and attending a Purim carnival, with some also sending food gifts.
Purim is among the most joyous and colorful days of the Jewish calendar. The holiday begins this year on sundown on Saturday and ends at nightfall on Sunday. This year, celebrations are likely to ...
Purim is the plural of the Hebrew word pur (loan from Akkadian puru) meaning "lot". [14] [a] Its use as the name of this festival comes from Esther 3:6–7, describing the choice of date: 6: [...] having been told who Mordecai's people were, Haman plotted to do away with all the Jews, Mordecai's people, throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
The Purim custom of giving mishloach manot has been compared to the Halloween tradition of giving candy. [10] Purim has sometimes been referred to as the "Jewish Halloween" or "anti-Halloween." [11] However, some consider terms like "Jewish Halloween" to be a misnomer due to the major differences between the holidays. [12]
Gaily wrapped baskets of sweets, drinks and other foodstuffs given as mishloach manot on Purim day. Mishloach manot (Hebrew: משלוח מנות [miʃˈlo.aχ maˈnot], literally, 'sending of portions'; also spelled and pronounced mishloach manos), or sh(a)lach mones (Yiddish: שלח־מנות Yiddish pronunciation: [ʃ(a)ɫaχˈmɔnəs]), and also called a Purim basket, are gifts of food or ...
A different tone — evoking the loss of more than 30,000 Palestinian lives in Israel-Hamas war — was sounded by two New York City rabbis in a March 7 opinion piece in The Forward, an online ...
The Adloyada tradition was renewed in the Purim of 1955. In this year there were over half a million of participants and spectators. [9] In the late sixties, the tradition faded in Tel Aviv and the parade was transferred to Holon, although it lacked the unrefined feature of events in Tel Aviv.