I’m pleased to have the opportunity to get back to my sins and guilt, what with Yom Kippur a mere six and a half months away, ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

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In addition to the core activities of reading the Megillah, sending gifts (mishloach manot), and donating three half shekels ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

Purim begins on the evening of March 13, 2025, and concludes at sundown on March 14, 2025.

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where God is never mentioned, and no overt miracles occur.

The Jewish holiday of Purim ... Many consider it holier than the fasting and prayer of Yom Kippur because it elevates the mundane – transforming eating and drinking into spiritual purpose.

The holy rebbe, Rav Yisroel of Ruzhin, adds that Purim is even more, for while on Yom Kippur Hashem forgives only with teshuva, repentance, on Purim He forgives as soon as we ask Him, as it says, Kol ...

The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in the ...

The Yom Kippur War was a resounding event ... two areas located on opposite ends of Israeli territory. Although the Hebrew state emerged victorious and the conflict did not drag on indefinitely, the ...