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Purim's Paradox
RABBI BERNARD S. RASKAS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
a paradox. A pop-
ular Yiddish saying
claims that just as a high
temperature does not de-
note a serious illness, neither is
Purim a holiday. Yet, Purim is
increasingly becoming one of
the most celebrated festivals in
the Jewish calendar.
Purim began as a way to
commemorate Jews' deliver-
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scroll." All Jews are obligated
to hear it read in public, espe-
cially women since Jews sur-
vived because of Esther's
courage.
It is rather strange to hold up
Esther as a Jewish role model
since she was intermarried.
Moreover, she and Mordecai are
closet Jews. Mordecai twice
warns her not to reveal her true
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The Purim holiday highlights Esther.
ance from a plot to kill them. It
is named after puru, the Akka-
dian word for "loth," after the
lots cast to determine the day
on which the slaughter of the
Jews was scheduled. During
Hasmonean times, it was
known as the Day of Mordecai.
In the authorized Greek trans-
lation of the Hebrew Bible (the
Septuagint), it is called Furies,
and the verses speaking of the
casting of the lots are omitted.
The basic text is known as
Megillat Esther, "The Scroll of
Esther." It is one of the Five
Scrolls, but in the Talmud it be-
comes simply megillah, "the
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identity. Yet, like Esther,
Mordecai is lauded as "highly
regarded by all Jews."
Can they be praised without
reservation? Is it not Vashti
who should be extolled? Vashti
had real character. She refused
to take off her royal robes in
public, thus defying an order of ''=\
the king. For this, she is killed
or banished. Why do we not
honor her integrity and sense
of morals?
The turn of the plot occurs
when Mordecai is forced to
choose between his inner and
outer identities: Is he a Jew or
a Persian noble? Is he Joseph,
Disraeli, Kissinger, Weinberg-
er, Goldberg or Eisenstadt? 1\
When he ultimately chose to
symbolically reveal himself as
PURIM
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