TEXE MARRS ðŸŽžï¸ LESSONS OF PURIM ðŸ• QUEEN ESTHER AND THE HOLY DAY OF JEWISH KILLING âœ¡ï¸ JUNE 13, 2015

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Published on Dec 22, 2022
Source: https://gab.com/DixieDoodle/posts/109552767136550733
The truth about the #BookOfEsther, #Esther, #QueenEsther, in general, And the evil Jewish holiday, #PURIM! It's NOT what you thought! (PS- The #Hollywood movie, "#OneNightWithTheKing" is NOT BIBLICAL!!!!!
#TexeMarrs EXPOSES the #BookOfEsther, #Purim, & #Esther! ðŸ“ºðŸ‘‡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sil9VLJh9l0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/15/purim-esther-christian-jewish/
As Jews gather on Wednesday evening to celebrate the holiday of Purim â€” and with covid-19 restrictions lifting in many areas, in-person gatherings may actually be possible â€” a carnival atmosphere will return to many synagogues that have been quiet and somber for the last two years. Because Purim is a carnival, satirical and joyous, a time for dressing up and drinking heavily, a topsy-turvy combination of Halloween, Mardi Gras and the classic Jewish holiday definition of â€œthey tried to kill us, we won, letâ€™s eat.â€
The biblical character of Esther plays a starring role in the eponymous book that is chanted that evening and again the next day. She is the orphaned Disney princess, an attractive young woman who, after winning a beauty contest to become queen of Persia, courageously acts to save her people. In Jewish tradition, she is also a complicated figure, both obedient and bold, who grows from clueless to cunning when forced to hide her identity as an endangered minority in the royal court. Only Mordechai, her adoptive father, knows who she truly is and persuades her to act against the vizier Haman, who plots to kill all the Jews and ends up in the gallows instead.
Itâ€™s a messy story. Some modern feminists argue the true heroine is not Esther, but her predecessor, Vashti, who refused to obey the king and probably lost her life because of it. Both Esther and Mordechai engage in questionable behavior to achieve their goals, and the bookâ€™s violent coda â€” when the Jews kill 75,000 Persians, supposedly in self-defense â€” remains controversial. Nonetheless, in the end, Purim is celebrated as a happy tale of communal survival.
But over the centuries, the Esther story has come to represent a different sort of tale for many Christians â€” as other Jewish texts and rituals have been repurposed by evangelicals. This story is often stripped of its innate complexities to focus on Esther herself, as someone who is explicitly chosen to carry out Godâ€™s will (even though the name of God does not appear anywhere in the Hebrew text). Esther has evolved to become a secret stand-in for the divine purpose, used by leaders to justify their political decisions and to imply that God is on their side, even if the rest of us canâ€™t see it.
https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Meet-the-real-Esther-and-Haman