this is the abri shami synagogue on palestine street in tehran. the history of judaism has been firmly intertwined with iran's history as they maintain an unbreakable bond. jews make the oldest minority in the country, dating back to 200 years before the birth of.

of nehemiah and the book of genesis. there is a great number of historical evidence, proving the deep interrelations between the jews and the dwellers of persia. but the book of ester is the one with the biggest person devoted to the history of ancient persia. the setting of the story of purim, as narrated in the book of.

127 provinces, in the third year of his reign, ahazirus threw a big feast and invited the governors and leaders of all the nations under his rule. the garing lasted for seven days. at the end of the seven night, the king asked his wife hashty to display her and go nude before the guests so that they would see her remarkable beauty. queen v, however, refused to do so, did not attend the royal party, raged by the wife's defiants, the king summoned the religious leaders and astrologists for consultation to set a tough punishment for his wife. they said she had to be replaced with the person who deserved that status. the king embraced the idea, thus dispatching all envoys under his command, tasking them with finding the best young women and bringing... them to his capital in

shusan, so the king would choose one of them as the new queen. mordekai was a jewish immigrant who had been rescued by cyrus from persecution under the king of babylonia. at first he resettled in persia. he decided to introduce his cousin esther to the king, an effort to make her the new queen. mordechi asked her not to tell. about her religion, the selection day came at last, it was stood out in the eye of the king, among all the other gorgeous women, he was crowned as persia's new queen, that provided the chance mordi to gain a senior position in the palace, haman was visserroy for king ahasios and served as his top comandant, indeed anyone under the king's rule would a haman as well except for mordekai. who would not do

so, he believed no one but god deserved that level of respect. man got extremely infuriated and was pushed to the edge. he decided to retaliate. against mordekai and his fellow jews seting one specific day in the 12 year in ohasurisi's rule for his ominous plot. a man choose the killing date on the 13th day of the jewish month of madar. haman initiated the plats by pursuing the king, the persia's scattered community of jews and to be exterminated and asked the king to issue an order on the complete anniholation. the king reed and handed him his ring, which was the royal seal and signature. he said he was free to do anything deemed appropriate. the word reached mordekai and he found out about the ominous plot on the slaughter of persia's jewish community.

esther also heard about it. she ordered someone to go ask morikai about the reason behind his anguish and restlessness. reported everything that happened to esther and even handed over the written order on the killing of jews issue by haman to inform ester. monchi asked esther urged the king to have mercy on the jews and spare their lives. in response, esther ordered mori to bring together all the jews of shushan and fast for three consecutive days. mordekai immediately did what esther had. instructed him to do and asked the people to repent and pray for their community deliverance. on the third day of the fasting, esther went to the king, weeping and expressing grief while praying to god for the salvation of the israelite. the king was

strongly touched by the scene and decided hand her his golden cane. esther moved forward. held the cane and asked the king to invite haman for a dinner involving the three them. the king and haman went to esther's banquet. at the table, while drinking wine, the king asked esther to make her the man known and pledged to give her whatever she wishes, even if it cost him half of his territory. 'esta said, now the time and joy of his majesty, i'm asking for my safety and that of my people. i'm a jew, someone has plotted to eradicate our people. the king

wondered who that bring person was who thought of a ruthless lot. "this sinister man, hamman, is the very enemy of my people," ester ried. the king immediately ordered his man to hang haman and his 10 sons. now ester went back to the king once again expressing concern that the threat still existed and asked him to issue another verdict nulling hamman's early order the massacre of the jews across the nation. she said, "how can i witness the massacre and eradication of my people?" the king full authority to issue a new order and seal it with the king. ring, the day of the order by hamman arrived, when the enemies of the jews were expecting to kill them, things completely changed and it was the jew to achieve triamp over those. under ester's order, the jewish inhabitants

all of the empire came together and massacred anyone who had previously planned to kill them. in the capital shushan, some 500 people die as a result. while the death toll throughout the persian empire reached 7500. mardakaya recorded everything that had happened and sent copies across the persian land to reach all members of the jewish community. he asked to celebrate the 14th and 15th of month of adar for the deliverance of jews from the hands of the enemies. the holiday was named pim denoting the jews were in luck.

this is the western iranian city of hamadan where the shrine of esther and mordekai is located. the original construction dates back to around. 11 centuries ago, but in the 13th century, during the elkhaid era, the masaleum was renovated. this is ester alli where people in hamadan in the vicinity of the shrine have been busy earning living. but how much do the people near the shrine know about the history of those who are buried in there in the shrine? سال اینجا. تقریباً از این ۴۰ ساله برای بازی از مقبره همه نوع قشتی میاد تویست داخلی میاد توریست خارجی میاد از کشورهای

مختلف میان گشتشونم که مشخص نمی کنه مثال هر ماه میبینید شاید ۱۰۰۵۰ نفر بازی کننده خارجی داشته باشه آره ما دیروز دیدیم اینجا جشن گرفته بود جشن بوده نه اطلاع نداشتم از جوریمو شنیدین نخیر.

اون چیزی که به عنوان قانون شرعی هستش توی این روز هدیه دادن به افراد فقیره در کنیسه ها همه جمع میشن کنیسه ها تومار استطلعت میشه روزه گرفته میشه استفاده کردن از غذاهای مخصوص پوریم حالا ما بهش میگیم سعودا ولی یک وعده غذایی که

celebrated in a different way with very different incentives and rituals. ליהורים הייתה הורה ושמחה ושסון בעיקר. תל אביב של פורים הייתה תבולה באורות קסומים של כוכבי חשמל, שיכבוד מקושטים, שירות של אחשטפנים מחופדים, הילדים מקסימים בשלל תחפוסות. תל אביב המתא אדם. here in israel, the motives and forms have little to do with what iranian jews demonstrate, evidence and historical

documents during the 1930s, the years before the recognition of tel aviv at the united nations indicated prim was celebrated on tel aviv streets in a quite different form. so there would be a jewish holiday if there wasn't eating involved, and one of the things that we love eat on forum are ham. literally it means the ears of hayman and what we do is we take a cookie dough, we put it in a triangular uh shape and inside you have poppy seed or prunes or ch, whatever you want, they're always good. "and that's how we get drunk on porm, we have to get rid of our intelligence, we have to have a direct connection to god between our souls and god, and we really tell our intelligence to leave, and that's why we drink, so everybody should have a great poem, everybody should come close to god, the solemn religious event,

which was once celebrated for gratitude for god, has now turned into large street carnivals, totally..." away from the original form of tradition, over drinking, dancing and bizarre costumes are among the newly developed rituals that make up what is today known as purem in israel

اسم فریم که چه در واژه فرو عبری به معنی قرعه داره شما در داستان تومار و استر هم نقش حیاتی قرعه رو می بینید و اینکه چطور قرعه و شانس اصولاً به نفع یک قوم دیگه ای البته قوم یهود در این داستان اساطیری تموم میشه و منجر به نجات این قوم میشه مثل خیلی از متونی که تو طور هزاره ها در حوزه القدسی.

در واقع محدود میشود روایت عهد عتیق از همون زمان هخامنشیان با پیرامون خودش وارد مراوده شده و تمدن هایی که حاشیه ای کلی متن از تمدن ایرانی در اختیار دارن چون تمدن ایرانی در مرکز بوده و مورد یورش قرار گرفته خیلی از این متنا از بین رفته ولی در تمدن های ما میبینیم چه در تمدن خود یونانی کلی متن در ایران چه در ایران بعد از اسلامی متن های عربی درباره ایران گذشته هیچ استناد تاریخی واسه داستان پوریم وجود نداره.

شخصیت هایی با نام هایی مثل وشتی مثل هدسه مثل استر مثل مردخای مثل هامان امثال این ها الزاماً غیرمکن نیست چیزی که غیرمکنه و احتمالاً کار رو یه مقداری این سمت می بره و یا سوق می دهد که ما نتیجه بگیریم اون روایت موجود گزارش تاریخی نیست این است که در واقع پیوستگی مطالب گونه که یک روایت منسجم تاریخی بسازه ظاهراً منطقی.

by a man named rafael montalto. the scroll tells the story of the salvation of the jews from a plan to annihilate them in persia in the 6th century before the common era. most hebrew books of the... bible are not illustrated, however the scroll of esther is perhaps the most notable exception that because the book does not contain the name of god anywhere in the text from the beginning

until the end authorities decided that it would be appropriate illustrate. the book of esther is unusual, it's unusual because there's no mention of god in the book of esther. it's a narrative about story, and some jews and some even christians...

"the yemany army says all ships that israel are legitimate targets unless the need of food and medicine are allowed into the gaza strip. the statement spoken for the yemini army, yah sari warned all ships and shipping companies against dealing with this ports. dozens of palestinians have been killed and scores more wound in fresh israel strikes than the god's crep, including the seats of han, meanwile the us is security resolution which call for immediate.