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Purim: How To Get Drunk On God

Eitan Press | Posted 04.23.2013 | Religion
Read More: Mysticism, Haman, Intoxication, Mordechai, God, Judaism, Hasidic Jews, Purim, Kabbalah, Love, Slidewide, Rabbi Nachman, Purim 2013, Jewish Wisdom, Jewish Mysticism, Religion News
Eitan Press

Purim is a radical embrace of the uncontrollable nature of life, celebrating the concealment of God through wearing masks, and the confusion of life through intoxication. With faith in the Divine, we go through chaos and transcend into something higher, into a place of Oneness.

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Presidents Day and Purim

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics
Read More: Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Bashar Al-Assad, Purim 2013, War Crimes, Libya, Book of Esther, Arab Spring, Human Rights, George Washington, Emancipation Proclamation, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Genocide, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Haman, John Quincy Adams, Purim, Adolf Hitler, Accountability, Syria, Ulysses S. Grant, Mordecai, Politics News
Aaron Zelinsky

Presidents Day rarely falls in the same week as Purim, and it won't again for almost 40 years (in 2051 -- take my word for it). But these two seemingly disparate holidays have much in common.

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It's Purim: Don't Worry, Be Happy!

Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 05.07.2012 | Religion
Read More: Haman, Meher Baba, Book of Esther, Purim, Mordechai, The Mad Hatter, Joy, Judaism, Purim 2012, Religion News
Levi Ben-Shmuel

Purim points the way that beyond the give and take of the dance of opposites that is the nature of life, is the reality that God is beyond opposites and can be experienced directly in a state of pure, unfiltered joy.

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Purim and the End of "Don't Ask Don't Tell"

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Queen Esther, Repeal Dadt, Israeli Military, Mordechai, Israeli Army, Lieberman Dadt, Israel-Gay-Military, Exodus, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Israel-Army, Haman, Book of Esther, Dadt Repeal, Obama Dadt, Abraham Lincoln, Purim, Idf, Passover, Politics News
Aaron Zelinsky

The Purim story has a special resonance this year: The Book of Esther marks civilization's first recorded repudiation of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."

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Purim 101

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Queen Esther, Purim, Graggers, Takepart, Hamantaschen, Mordechai, Haman, Holiday News, Healthy Living News
Sarah Newman

There's a common refrain that sums up the broad themes of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat.

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