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Purim 2025 is upon us, and it has some features that make this year unique

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By the Numbers 13 Facts You Should Know About the Book of Esther The biblical book that tells the story of Purim, reading it from a handwritten scroll is one of the four mitzvahs of the holiday. By Yehuda Altein Read 10 Questions: Take the Purim Mitzvahs Quiz Do you know them all? By Menachem Posner Read 6 Ways Purim 2025 Is Unique Purim 2025 is upon us, and it has some features that make this year unique. By Menachem Posner Read Your Questions The Origins of the Grager: Why We Boo Haman Rabbi David Abudraham (14th century, Spain) writes that there had been an earlier custom for children to draw a picture or write the name of Haman on wood or stones By Yehuda Shurpin Read What Does the Name Esther Mean? Esther is a popular Jewish name, most closely associated with Queen Esther. By Miriam Szokovski Read Halachah for Life How (& If) to Have a Purim Meal Late on Friday Afternoon The tricky halachic conundrum of "Pores Mapah Umikadesh" By Yehuda Shurpin Read History Purim in Stalin's Moscow An illegal yeshiva student, an exiled member of parliament and a Chassidic niggun By Dovid Margolin Read The Siege and Double Salvation of 18th-Century Tiberias The historic Jewish community of Tiberias celebrates several mini "Purims," each one tracing back to another miracle in its tumultuous history. By Yehudis Litvak Read Blog The Rebbe's Request for This Sunday You Can Unite With Jerusalem Read Freeman Files Can Judaism Be Fun? Some say G‑d created the world so we could party. It's only half true. He created it so He could party with us. Which is basically the idea of a mitzvah . . . By Tzvi Freeman Read Parshah Why Is the Kiyor (Laver) Not Listed With the Other Vessels? What is the connection between the half-shekel donation and the Kiyor? By Mordechai Rubin Read Turn Regret Into Relief This exercise will unburden you. It will allow you to rise above the hurt, the shame and the resentments. By Yitzi Hurwitz Read Video The Silly Bird and the Wily Fox: Two Purim Parables The Midrash gives a parable for the story of Haman's plot against the Jews... Living Torah Watch (9:07) Podcasts