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  2. Fast of Esther - Wikipedia

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    Esther asked Mordechai to have the Jews fast and pray on her behalf for 3 days and 3 nights, before she approached her husband, king Ahasuerus to beg for the life of her people. Another is presumed to have occurred on the 13th of Adar, the day before the Jews fought a battle to defend against their enemies, who had been given an irrevocable ...

  3. Book of Esther - Wikipedia

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    But she is afraid to present herself to the King unsummoned, an offense punishable by death (4:6–12). Instead, she directs Mordecai to have all Jews fast for three days for her, and vows to fast as well (4:15–16.). On the third day she goes to Ahasuerus, who stretches out his sceptre to her to indicate that she is not to be punished (5:1–2).

  4. Purim - Wikipedia

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    Since Purim is preceded by a fast day, the rabbi also directed his descendants to have a (private) fast day, the 5th day of Tamuz, marking one of his imprisonments (1629), this one lasting for 40 days. [109] [110] The Jewish community of Hebron has celebrated two historic Purims, both from the Ottoman period. One is called Window Purim, or ...

  5. Esther - Wikipedia

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    Esther asks that the entire Jewish community fast and pray for three days before she goes to see the king; Mordecai agrees. On the third day, Esther goes to the courtyard in front of the king's palace, and she is welcomed by the king, who stretches out his scepter for her to touch, and offers her anything she wants "up to half of the kingdom".

  6. Fast of the Firstborn - Wikipedia

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    Fast of the Firstborn (Hebrew: תענית בכורות, Ta'anit B'khorot[1] or תענית בכורים, Ta'anit B'khorim[2]) is a unique fast day in Judaism which usually falls on the day before Passover (i.e., the fourteenth day of Nisan, a month in the Jewish calendar; Passover begins on the fifteenth of Nisan). In modern times, the fast is ...

  7. Ta'anit - Wikipedia

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    Fast of the Firstborn, Ta'anit Bechorot, observed on the day preceding Passover. Yom Kippur Katan (literally, the little Yom Kippur) – held on the day before Rosh Hodesh in most months. Fast of Behav – This is a custom to fast on the first Monday, Thursday and then the following Monday of the Jewish months of Cheshvan and Iyar—shortly ...

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  9. Festival of Santa Esterica - Wikipedia

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    The festival was themed about a fictional “Catholic” saint called "Esterica" who was heavily based upon Queen Esther.During the festival the New Christian women fasted for 3 days as Esther herself, her uncle Mordechai and the Jews of Persia did in the Book of Esther prior to her meeting with King Achashverosh.