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Halakha (Jewish Law) dictates that a Jewish man should drink so much on Purim so that he can not tell the difference between the truth and a lie.
No kidding, that's that law, and I intend to obey it!
Why it's my fave holiday Pity I don't drink.
Halakha (Jewish Law) dictates that a Jewish man should drink so much on Purim so that he can not tell the difference between the truth and a lie.
No kidding, that's that law, and I intend to obey it!
Pass me the Schnapps please!!
poor peneloooopy-----a few days ago she claimed that the book of esther is
a myth and today she decided the esther was into trickery. Make up your
"mind" looopy dear
poor peneloooopy-----a few days ago she claimed that the book of esther is
a myth and today she decided the esther was into trickery. Make up your
"mind" looopy dear
Well since some think its the honest to God truth may as well tell them how it really went down.
Tension is thick in Israel these days as 6 million Jews await the course of events to unfold. Will Israel bomb Iran? Will the world support such an attack? And perhaps most important of all: What can we do about it?
Some important parallels are found right here in the Purim story. By examining the ancient text, we can gain guidance on how to proceed in today’s frightening situation.
Drawing Parallels
• Religious fanaticism – Haman fastened an idol to his chest and decreed that everyone must bow down. Mordechai’s refusal caused Haman to become enraged and to formulate his plan of annihilation.
A thousand years after the Purim story, Islam was born. When the Jews refused to acknowledge Muhammad as a prophet, he lashed out:
This is no mere rhetoric. In the region of Mecca, Mohammed expelled, plundered and slaughtered the Jews. Today, these Koranic statements encourage Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to declare: "The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and must be cut off.”
- "Allah has cursed [the Jews] and transformed them into apes and pigs." (Koran 5:60)
- "The Jews are covered with humiliation and poverty, and the anger of God is cast upon them." (Sura 2:61)
- "Salvation will not come until Muslims kill all the Jews, hiding behind rocks and trees." (Sahih Muslim, 41:6985)
”• Legalized anti-Semitism – Rather than move forward unilaterally to slaughter the Jews, Haman expended considerable money and effort to get his decree legally enshrined.
Today, too, Iran’s supreme leader has laid out the legal and religious license to attack Jews around the world and destroy the State of Israel – declaring “jurisprudential justification to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.
.• Willingness to self-sacrifice – As a descendent of Amalek, the prototype rabid anti-Semite, Haman is driven to hatred of the Jews even at great cost to himself – offering Achashverosh a fortune of his own money for the right of annihilation (Esther 3:9).
Standard logic does not apply to an Iranian regime driven by apocalyptic messianism.
This same illogic operates in Iran today. The standard concept of nuclear weapons kept in check by Mutually Assured Destruction (i.e. no country would dare launch a nuclear strike, given that the other side would retaliate in kind and bring about annihilation of both parties) does not apply to an Iranian regime driven by apocalyptic messianism. In fact, the opposite may be true. Just as Muslim extremists have perpetrated hundreds of suicide bombings, Iran advocates the ultimate suicide bomb: While a nuclear exchange with Israel could cost Iran 15 million people, Iranian leaders have said they regard that as a “small sacrifice” for wiping out Israel’s 6 million Jews