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Anyone else going to celebrate Purim?
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 415666" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Star -</p><p></p><p>I can pass on the prune hamantashen but apricot, yummy! They are pastries shaped like a tri-cornered continental soldier hat, for lack of a better description. They are named after Haman, the villain of the Purim story or the Book of Esther. Basically, the king of Persia got tired of his wife and decided to have a beauty contest of sorts to pick a new one. Juxtaposed with this is the continuous plotting of the king's vizier, Haman, to rid the country of Jews. The king has a Jewish advisor (Mordechai) who is working to foil this plot. His niece, Esther, is chosen as the new Queen but she hides her religion from the king (easier for women to do than men, LOL!). The king gives in to Haman's importuning and through the use of Purim (lots, kind of like straws), each with a date written on it. One date is selected and this is the date on which all of the Jews in the entire 127 provinces of the country are to be slaughtered.</p><p></p><p>There's more to the story and if you'd like to know the rest, I'll post it... One of the best parts of the story is how relatively empowering it is to a young woman, Esther...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 415666, member: 3493"] Star - I can pass on the prune hamantashen but apricot, yummy! They are pastries shaped like a tri-cornered continental soldier hat, for lack of a better description. They are named after Haman, the villain of the Purim story or the Book of Esther. Basically, the king of Persia got tired of his wife and decided to have a beauty contest of sorts to pick a new one. Juxtaposed with this is the continuous plotting of the king's vizier, Haman, to rid the country of Jews. The king has a Jewish advisor (Mordechai) who is working to foil this plot. His niece, Esther, is chosen as the new Queen but she hides her religion from the king (easier for women to do than men, LOL!). The king gives in to Haman's importuning and through the use of Purim (lots, kind of like straws), each with a date written on it. One date is selected and this is the date on which all of the Jews in the entire 127 provinces of the country are to be slaughtered. There's more to the story and if you'd like to know the rest, I'll post it... One of the best parts of the story is how relatively empowering it is to a young woman, Esther... [/QUOTE]
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