Photo 28 Feb mejoe: Happy Purim! Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the divine deliverance of the Jewish people from a holocaust engineered by a civil servant in the Persian Empire, Haman. Through the intervention of Esther, a pious Jewish girl, and her elder cousin, Mordecai, they informed Ahasuerus (otherwise known in ancient history as Xerxes I, king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (fl. 6th BC?). For Christians Esther is a saint, and is venerated on May 24th. This is what I’ll be having today for lunch, hamentaschen. I really miss hamentaschen. A decent Jewish bakery, is that so much to ask?

mejoe:

Happy Purim!

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the divine deliverance of the Jewish people from a holocaust engineered by a civil servant in the Persian Empire, Haman. Through the intervention of Esther, a pious Jewish girl, and her elder cousin, Mordecai, they informed Ahasuerus (otherwise known in ancient history as Xerxes I, king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (fl. 6th BC?). For Christians Esther is a saint, and is venerated on May 24th.

This is what I’ll be having today for lunch, hamentaschen.

I really miss hamentaschen. A decent Jewish bakery, is that so much to ask?


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