Happy Purim!

[mamadeb]

Happy Purim to those who celebrate, and happy Sunday to the rest of you.

As has become my tradition, here is my Purim Torah.

I'd also like to direct you to an important drasha (speech) by the Shluffener Rebbe, as transcribed by jonbaker.

Comments

Re: Happy Purim!

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Aheurserus/Haman. Xerxes is, I believe, someone else.

I don't bake. I buy.

I can't see why cabbage with poppyseeds might not be a family custom.

Re: Happy Purim!

[chvickers.livejournal.com]

Aheurserus is the Greek, אחשורש the Hebrew, and Xerxes the Persian, at least according to Olmstead's History of the Persian Empire.

How they got Aheurserus from Xerxes is unclear to me, but apparently the dates, and Hamen, add up.

The cabbage and poppyseeds is really good, but I think poppyseeds were in *everything*. I prefer charnushka myself.

Re: Happy Purim!

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Other way round.

Achashveros came way before the Greeks, so it's how they got Xerxes from *that*.