On Purim Things Are Not As They Appear
This year we celebrate the festival of Purim on March 1st. The story is recounted in the biblical book of Esther and has lessons which are relevant today, several thousand years later.Purim recalls events which took place after the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem. In 586 BCE, the Babylonian empire ransacked the Temple, burnt it and the city of Jerusalem to the ground, and exiled the Jews who were not murdered.Seventy years after the destruction of Jerusalem, the Babylonian empire wa
Zalman Kravitz