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To: SJackson; Ezekiel
The tale of Queen Esther and Mordechai’s salvation of the Jews from Haman’s “final solution” is filled with themes that have permeated the Trump administration and his election.

Indeed!

Now time to...

Michelle Citrin - Shake Your Grogger (A Purim Song)

18 posted on 02/28/2018 8:09:21 PM PST by Jeremiah Jr (EL CHI)
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To: Jeremiah Jr; SJackson; KC_Lion; EinNYC; jjotto; Zionist Conspirator; Phinneous

Our Sages teach that when the Messiah arrives the festivals will cease to be observed, but Purim will continue to be observed. The Midrash (Mishlei 9) derives this unusual conclusion from a statement in Megillat Esther, (9:28) “the memory of Purim will never cease from among their descendants.” Why should a relatively minor festival be observed forever while the basic and more significant festivals will no longer be needed? The following analogy will help explain this extraordinarily puzzling rabbinic teaching:

https://www.ou.org/holidays/purim/purim_is_forever/

Esther 9

20. And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far:
21. To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly:
22. Like the days when the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor:
23. And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them:
24. Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them:
25. But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plot, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows:
26. Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur; Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them:

Happy Purim - Purim Sameach:

פורים שמח

--->

משיח מפור

Mashiach, from Pur!

Pur, or poor, what's in a vowel...

It is a positive rabbinic precept to give two gifts for gifts to two poor people on Purim, one gift to each poor person.

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/1495/jewish/Gifts-for-the-Poor.htm

"When will the Messiah come?" asked Joshua. "Ask him," replied the Prophet. "The Messiah is at the gates of Rome, sitting among the poor, the sick and wretched. Like them, he changes the bindings of his wounds, but does so one wound at the time, in order to be ready at a moment's notice."

There's an accepted understanding that English is a dreadful language, one especially difficult to learn as a second language. A real mishmash. And Hebrew is known as the Holy Tongue.

Thus Purim is like getting to the point of not knowing the difference between "Blessed be Hebrew" and "Cursed be English". There's a mitzvah in that.

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of the poor...

44 posted on 03/02/2018 6:59:18 AM PST by Ezekiel ( All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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