JEWISH HOLY DAY

Purim Celebrations: The Jewish Holy Day

Purim Celebrations: The Jewish Holy Day

The Jewish holy day's are very scared to the Jewish cultural. The Jewish people are a people of celebration. All year long there are many holy days that the Jewish people love to celebrate. Seven of the major Jewish holy days are Shabbat, Purim, Passover, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashana, and Shavuot. Each holiday has its own customs, presentations, and services that make it different from the other Jewish holidays. Out of these days, Purim is the greatest day of the year. It is not only a day of happiness and gaiety, but it also has within it a tremendous opportunity to come close to Hashem. Purim is celebrated in the twelfth month, Adar, at sundown on the thirteenth day (Sasson, 1985, pp. 25). It is a fun holiday, full of parties, drinking, and other celebratory observances. People give baskets of food to friends and the needy persons, and drink wine with the loved ones.

Purim is the holiday that the Jewish nation was saved from Haman's evil decree of annihilation. This is a Rabbinical holiday as it took place thousands of years after the giving of the Torah. What we may not know is the strong connection between this glorious holiday and the Torah. There was a king who wanted to move his crown jewels from one part of his kingdom to another, but was afraid of robbers and bandits on the way. So the king devised an ingenious plan. He hired a simple wagon and hid the crown jewels in some simple looking merchandise. The idea was not to draw too much attention to the great treasure that was being passed right under the bandit's noses. So to, does Hashem disguise the holiness of Purim with ...