Beit Midrash
- Shabbat and Holidays
- Jewish Holidays
- Purim & The Month of Adar
Purim of Persia, there have been many other
miraculous occasions when Jewish communities were
saved from disaster. The "Purim of the Curtains"
(Tevet 22) marked when the Jewish community of
Prague was saved in 1623, after being falsely
accused of stealing royal gold curtains. In
"Purim Fassano" (4th day Pesach) the Jews of this
Italian town were saved when an unexploded French
bomb scared away a wild mob that was threatening
them. In 1616, the Jews of Frankfort were saved
from a vicious anti-Semite named Vincent
Fettmilch in "Purim Vincent" (20 Adar) In "Purim
of Saragossa, Spain (17-18 Shvat) the Jews were
saved by parading before the king with the all of
the town’s Sifrei Torah. There were not one, but
two "Purims of Chevron," (14 Tevet) in 1814 &
1832; "Purim Yemen" happened in Sana on 16 Adar;
& "Purim Burghul" (29 Tevet) was in Tripoli in
1793 when the Jews of Libya were saved at the last moment.
3. Leap Years and the Added Month of Adar
Chapter 14: The Month of Adar
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Kislev 12 5782
Ask the rabbi: purim is fast approaching – what do I do?
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 22 Adar II 5784
What Mordechai Discovered When He Returned to Shushan
Rabbi Netanel Yossifun | Adar 10 5783
