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| rdfs:comment | - Purim (Hebrew: פורים Pûrîm "lots") is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. According to the story, Haman cast lots to determine the day upon which to exterminate the Jews.
- The "flavor" of the holiday is joyous. Children dress up in costumes. Carnivals are common (at least in the US). Other customs include gifts to the poor, drinking wine, and making lots of noise (boo, hiss, bang or razz) whenever Haman's name is mentioned.
- Purim is a Jewish festival, celebrating Jewish deliverance in Persia (particularly in the capital Susa) from genocidal mobs enabled by law to the destroy the Jews. Xerxes' chief aide Haman had attempted a destroy the Jewish people, casting a pur (lot) to determine the day upon which the slaughter would begin. After Esther became queen, she and Mordecai revealed this plot to the king and so enforced an edict to counteract the genocide. The date selected for the genocide was then turned into a Jewish holiday, being called Purim, named after the kind of lot used to select the date.
- Purim [Hebrew:פורים] is an annual festival of the Jews in commemoration of the preservation, as recorded in the Book of Esther, of their people from threatened wholesale massacre in Persia at the insistance of Haman, and which was so called because it was by casting "lots" that the day was fixed for the execution of the purpose. It is celebrated in most of the world on the 14th of Adar, in walled cities from the time of Joshua, it is celebrated on the 15th. It is the most joyous of Jewish festivals.
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| abstract | - Purim (Hebrew: פורים Pûrîm "lots") is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. According to the story, Haman cast lots to determine the day upon which to exterminate the Jews.
- The "flavor" of the holiday is joyous. Children dress up in costumes. Carnivals are common (at least in the US). Other customs include gifts to the poor, drinking wine, and making lots of noise (boo, hiss, bang or razz) whenever Haman's name is mentioned.
- Purim is a Jewish festival, celebrating Jewish deliverance in Persia (particularly in the capital Susa) from genocidal mobs enabled by law to the destroy the Jews. Xerxes' chief aide Haman had attempted a destroy the Jewish people, casting a pur (lot) to determine the day upon which the slaughter would begin. After Esther became queen, she and Mordecai revealed this plot to the king and so enforced an edict to counteract the genocide. The date selected for the genocide was then turned into a Jewish holiday, being called Purim, named after the kind of lot used to select the date.
- Purim [Hebrew:פורים] is an annual festival of the Jews in commemoration of the preservation, as recorded in the Book of Esther, of their people from threatened wholesale massacre in Persia at the insistance of Haman, and which was so called because it was by casting "lots" that the day was fixed for the execution of the purpose. It is celebrated in most of the world on the 14th of Adar, in walled cities from the time of Joshua, it is celebrated on the 15th. It is the most joyous of Jewish festivals.
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