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To: Jack Hydrazine

I doubt it. This holiday goes back to the times of the Indo-Aryans. Well into the millennial BC’s.


21 posted on 03/20/2010 1:51:19 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett

A Jewish friend of mine who had an Iranian girlfriend says so.

The story of Esther to place in Shushan (aka Susa), Persia. Her husband, the king of Persia identified as Xerxes I(aka Ahasuerus) converted later to Judaism according to the rabbis. I am sure this king had an influence on the people he ruled with Jewish traditions he might have celebrated.


25 posted on 03/20/2010 2:11:12 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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