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Related: About this forumHappy Purim Everyone!!
Just got back from the wild party my synagogue throws every year. It ends with a very entertaining reading of the Megillah
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Happy Purim Everyone!! (Original Post)
mucifer
2 hrs ago
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Deuxcents
(26,420 posts)1. I am not of your faith so I looked up this occasion
Celebrating the bravery of Ester is what I understand. I remember this story from my childhood Sunday school days.. wherever thou goeth, I will go is what I recall. How am I doing?!
hedda_foil
(16,976 posts)3. That's Ruth, folllowing her mother in law, Naiomi.
Esther is the Jewish girl who becomes the wife of the King Ahashuerus of Persia and rescues her people from genocide during the Babylonian captivity.
Deuxcents
(26,420 posts)4. O .. that's right! Esther became Queen and saved her people
From a plot to kill them. Thanks for the correction.. learning something all the time
Mosby
(19,484 posts)2. Chag Purim Sameach!