Purim 5759

Purim: March 2, 1999 ( Adar 14, 5759 )

Purim Torah

All the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (22 letters) can be found in just one Verse of the Bible.
It is Chapter 3, Verse 13 of the book of ESTHER.

Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the King's provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews - young and old, women and little children - on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Fast of Esther

March 1, 1999 ( Adar 13, 5759 )
Fast of Esther commemorates the time when the Jews of Persia fasted and prayed that they be spared the massacre planned by Haman.

Purim

March 2, 1999 ( Adar 14, 5759 )
Purim commemorates the day when, through the intervention of Mordecai and Queen Esther, the Jews of Persia narrowly escaped being victims of Haman's plot to exterminate them.

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