HAPPY PURIM !!!

What’s Purim?

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People often dress up in costumes and do masquerades for Purim yeah.

Disguises and masks are a major theme of the holiday. Both because the story of Esther involves a lot of people dressing up or hiding who they were, and in a more meta sense that the Book of Esther is one of the only books in the Hebrew Bible where God does not make a direct appearance, so God is seen as "hiding" his intervention by making everything appear to be natural causes.

The celebration of the story of Esther where a Jew was able to get his hot cousin to become Queen of Persia, a Persian advisor gets pissy because the male MC doesn't bow to him and he plans to genocide the Jews in Persia. Yada yada yada the Persian Shah gets mad that his advisor planned to kill his Hebrew Queen with big milkers and lets the Jews have one decree. The Jews kill the advisor, his family and 75,000 people who supposedly were going to join the Jew killing. The Jewish bloodlust is so great that Persians pretend to be Jews to not get purged.

Erev Purim started last sundown do you even Jewish Calendar, you're all late.

Hey. Fuck you.

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I never knew jews were so violent.

You know how the Jews have a long history of getting kicked out of places, often violently? Purim is a holiday celebrating one of the times that DIDN'T happen. It's a big bright festival with parades and parties. Basically imagine Mardi Gras or Carnival with slightly less degeneracy and slightly more arguing.

The story goes that way back in ancient Persia the king took a young Jewish woman named Esther for his wife, Esther was orphaned when she was a child and was being fostered by her older cousin Mordecai, Esther does not reveal her origins or her religion to the King. A while later Mordecai exposes a plot on the Kings life and is briefly honored by his court for the deed.

The King also has a royal vizir named Haman who hates the Jews and Mordecai in particular because he's an asshole, so he plots to kill them all and tricks the King into giving him a royal decree to do so. Mordecai finds out and begs Esther to intervene on the Jews behalf. Esther is intially reluctant since it could get her killed but eventually agrees and confesses to the King that she is Jewish and explains Haman's plan. The King remembers that Mordecai saved his life and, furious that Haman would try to kill his wife and his savior's people, has Haman executed. The Jews survive Haman's race riots thanks to royal intervention, the King makes Mordecai the new vizir, Esther remains queen and everyone gets a happy ending. Except Haman but fuck him.

Purim is meant to be a day of celebration and cheer. You're supposed to give gifts to friends and charity, and have a big feast. When the story of Purim is recited each year it's tradition for the crowd to boo and wave noisemakers whenever Haman's name is mentioned. Historically Jewsish communities did a lot of parades and masquerades, and even today a lot of synagogues hold Purim carnivals and costume parties to celebrate.

You're also religiously encouraged to drink yourself silly. I'm not joking. It's a great holiday.

Jews are where we get the word 'zealot' from. They were originally exiled from their homeland because they wouldn't stop revolting against Rome and the Romans decided that just killing them all was too difficult. Hannukah is a holiday celebrating a successful guerrilla warfare campaign. Literally the first thing the state of Israel did upon its founding was fight every single one of its neighbors and win. Just because Judaism never got as big as other major religions doesn't mean it hasn't had it's fair share of crusaders, jihadis, and warrior monks. Historically, when the Jews get militant, they get VERY militant.

St. Patty's day is more of an American thing than a really big Irish holiday. It's a whiter version of Cinco De Mayo.

It’s an Irish American holiday. And the McGees are Irish American.

Zealot Warrior Libby when?

The real reason : carnival. The tradition of costumes originates with the Jews of Venice, who adopted the costumes of Mardi Gras.

There were no violent Jews during the Purim story. People, being regular Persians, didn't pretend to be Jews. Haman wanted to kill all Jews in Persia, and because the everyman Persian knew Jewish people in their daily life, they felt empathy and fear for their neighbors. When Queen Ester exposed Haman's plot, messengers were sent out to reverse the massacre order, and due to so much empathy, joy, and human connection, many Persian became Jews.
They didn't pretend to be Jews.

The Jewish people were not exiled from Palestine/Judea. They were exiled from Jerusalem by the Romans, but not from the whole of the Levant. The Roman-Judean war was as much a civil war between Jews as anything.
Even the medieval Euopean expulsions weren't complete expulsions from Kingdoms : they were money making schemes for the local nobles. Jews weren't told "leave", they were told "pay the Prince a ransom, or sell your land and leave. Can't pay? Leave."
Most Jews lived in abject poverty, and had there homes stolen through these actions.

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Purim is the night jews consume the blood of gentile children.