{"id":260,"date":"2013-02-23T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-02-25T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T04:15:46","slug":"holidays-and-holy-days-purim-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/2013\/02\/23\/holidays-and-holy-days-purim-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays and Holy Days – Purim (Jewish)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious or spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu<\/a>\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office.<\/p>\n

February 23rd-24th, 2013 is Purim, a Jewish holiday beginning at sundown.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Purim celebrates the Jews’ salvation from Genocide in ancient Persia, as told in the book of Esther. \u00a0The holiday is also called “Feast of Lots” reflecting when, according to the story, the prime minister Haman cast lots to determine the date for the genocide of the Jewish people. \u00a0Haman hated Jews because after being chosen as prime minister by King Ahasuerus, he wanted everyone to bow to him when passing through the city and a man named Mordecai refused. \u00a0Mordecai was the uncle to the newly crowned Queen Esther, who had not yet revealed her Jewish identity to the king. \u00a0After Haman had told the king that the Jewish people were a threat and needed to be eliminated, Esther bravely confronted the king and convinced him to free her people. \u00a0Purim is more of a national holiday than a religious holiday.<\/p>\n

Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n

The name of God is not mentioned throughout the entire book of Esther. \u00a0Part of the significance of this holiday is celebrating God’s presence and action at all times, even when it is not obvious. \u00a0Also, God saving His people through the actions of an orphaned woman, who is the second wife of the king, and who is not a native to the kingdom, demonstrates God’s use of unlikely, insignificant characters.<\/p>\n

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  1. Reading the story of Esther together<\/li>\n
  2. Festive meal<\/li>\n
  3. Giving gifts and food to neighbors and friends<\/li>\n
  4. Giving to the poor<\/li>\n
  5. Baking 3-cornered pastries called “Haman’s ears” or “Haman’s pockets”<\/li>\n
  6. Satirical skits (sometimes illustrating the story of Esther)<\/li>\n
  7. Dressing up in costumes (sometimes dressing as the characters in the story or other awesome costumes)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Pictures of awesome Purim celebrations –\u00a0http:\/\/photos.newhavenregister.com\/2013\/02\/22\/photos-purim-holiday-celebrations-in-israel\/#name here<\/a><\/p>\n

    Facts about the holiday –\u00a0http:\/\/www.religionfacts.com\/judaism\/holidays\/purim.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

    Wiki –\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purim#Greetings<\/a><\/p>\n

    Esther as a story of feminism in ancient Persia –\u00a0http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deborah-rosenbloom\/purim-a-tale-of-womens-empowerment_b_2741397.html<\/a><\/p>\n

    Being Jewish means lots of holiday parties –\u00a0http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eitan-press\/purim-how-to-get-drunk-on-god_b_2734923.html#slide=2135012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious or spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office. February 23rd-24th, 2013 is Purim, a Jewish holiday beginning at… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,147691],"tags":[147690,128653,128966,145723,147692,129259,37],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-holidays-and-holy-days-2","tag-holidays-and-holy-days","tag-dean-of-student-life","tag-dosl","tag-everyone-matters-osu","tag-hannah-pynn","tag-oregon-state-univerity","tag-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}