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Anyone else going to celebrate Purim?
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 415855" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I was always told that it was done to remember that we are of the earth. I'm not sure if that's the actual religious reason but I was told that by my mom. I would defer to Esther (by the way, my Hebrew name is Malka Esther, which translates into Queen Esther) on this. I fell away from Orthodoxy at age 10 when I was told that I was not allowed to study the same parts of the Torah as the boys, even though I was the top student in my yeshiva and had just skipped a grade. I was told to stop damaging my brain by too much studying and that I should be thrilled because the rabbi was planning to marry to a very prominent rabbi's son when I was older because such a rabbi should have intelligent daughter in law's! I married an Irish Catholic instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 415855, member: 3493"] I was always told that it was done to remember that we are of the earth. I'm not sure if that's the actual religious reason but I was told that by my mom. I would defer to Esther (by the way, my Hebrew name is Malka Esther, which translates into Queen Esther) on this. I fell away from Orthodoxy at age 10 when I was told that I was not allowed to study the same parts of the Torah as the boys, even though I was the top student in my yeshiva and had just skipped a grade. I was told to stop damaging my brain by too much studying and that I should be thrilled because the rabbi was planning to marry to a very prominent rabbi's son when I was older because such a rabbi should have intelligent daughter in law's! I married an Irish Catholic instead. [/QUOTE]
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