I almost forgot Purim, the holiday that is being celebrated as we wind our way through Jerusalem. It looks like our halloween with both children and adults dressed in various wild or beautiful costumes, but we learn that it celebrates the rescue of the Jews from annihlation at the hand of the king by Esther who was the Jewish queen and his favorite wife. The traditional costumes, then, consist of a queen's or a king's robes, and we saw plenty of them, but we also saw some wild and crazy ones.
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| celebrating Purim |
The holiday lasted several days, maybe extended by those who willed it longer, and we also got the tail end of it when we got to Tel Aviv.
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| what's a smurf got to do with it? |
The holiday lasted several days, maybe extended by those who willed it longer, and we also got the tail end of it when we got to Tel Aviv.
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