Purim is one of those holidays where we don’t tell the whole story. (https://secularjewishweddings.com/why-do-we-tell-only-half-the-story/) But it is more than that we don’t tell the whole story. It’s that we don’t see the whole people. The book of Esther, on which the holiday is based, is a historical fiction, written about 400 years after the events […]
Chanukah, Purim, Pesakh – all our stories end happy. But do they, really? Let’s take a look at what happens after “they lived happily ever after.” Let’s look at the real stories of Jewish holidays and find out why we tell only half the story. We tell the story of chanukah, the retaking of the
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Each year on Purim, we Jews read the story of Esther. When the villain Haman’s name is read, we shout, hiss and boo to drown it out. We write his name on the soles of our shoes and stomp them on the ground until the name disappears. We say, “May his name be erased.” And
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