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A Purim spiel (Purim play) is a comic dramatization that attempts to convey the saga of the Purim story. [79] By the 18th century, in some parts of Eastern Europe, the Purim plays had evolved into broad-ranging satires with music and dance for which the story of Esther was little more than a pretext.
The tradition of Purim Rabbi has been common for many centuries in yeshivot of Spain, Italy, France, and Germany, from where it was transferred to Poland as well. [3] The modern tradition of Purim Rabbi in yeshivot is attributed to Volozhin Yeshiva; it is said that the Rosh yeshiva appointed one every year, and Purim Rabbi would satirize the yeshiva life and administration. [4]
The first page (2a) of the Vilna daf edition Babylonian Megillah. Masechet Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud (Gemara) is a commentary of the Amoraim that analyzes and discusses the Mishnayot of the same tractate; however, it does not do so in order: the first chapter of each mirror each other, [7] [8] as do the second chapters, [9] [4] but the Gemara's third chapter reflects the fourth of the ...
Vashti (Hebrew: וַשְׁתִּי , romanized: Vaštī; Koinē Greek: Ἀστίν, romanized: Astín; Modern Persian: واشتی, romanized: Vâšti) was a queen of Persia and the first wife of Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included within the Tanakh and the Old Testament which is read on the Jewish holiday of Purim.
A hamantash (pl.: hamantashen; also spelled hamantasch, hamantaschen; Yiddish: המן־טאַש homentash, pl.: המן־טאַשן homentashn, 'Haman pockets') is an Ashkenazi Jewish triangular filled-pocket pastry associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim. The name refers to Haman, the villain in the Purim story.
An example of such is the fourteenth century Masekhet Purim by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, condemned by many scholars. [3] Purim Torah authors, often displaying an amazing grasp of Jewish knowledge, playfully use some of the far-fetched methods of Talmudic logic and Biblical exegesis in order to reach absurd conclusions. [4]
There are wide-ranging theories regarding the origin of Purim: one popular theory says festival has its origins in a historicized Babylonian myth or ritual in which Mordecai and Esther represent the Babylonian gods Marduk and Ishtar, others trace the ritual to the Persian New Year, and scholars have surveyed other theories in their works. [3]
Al HaNissim alternatively V'al HaNissim [1] ([ו]עַל הַנִסִּים , "[and] on the miracles") is an addition to the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on Hanukkah and Purim. On both holidays, it starts off with a short paragraph, beginning with the words for which it is named.