Purim

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Receiving the Torah on Purim

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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e-TiM: A Closer Look at Purim

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Please join Rabbi Jay Kelman for a special 45 minute Purim shiur.  
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Purim: Celebrating Community

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In what surely is one of the strangest, shocking and surreal of teachings, our Sages have noted that Yom Kippurim (which is what the Torah calls Yom Kippur), the holiest of days, is Yom k’Purim a day like Purim, the most frivolous day of the year. A…
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Purim: Gather Together

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Join as we discuss the challenge of unity in a time with limited persecution. 
Podcast

Adventures in American Judaism (Part 6): Behind the Laughter: American Judaism and its Purim Shpiels

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

How did the Purim Shpiel migrate to the United States? And how did it become a fitting annual activity for otherwise-straight-laced yeshiva students? The story is a good (and funny) one. 
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 5): The Great Nineteenth Century Purim Ball Revival

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

In the 1860s, a group of young Jews helped bring about a Jewish religious revival, first in New York, and then across North America, through a little known and little appreciated Jewish holiday: Purim.
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e-TiM: Adventures in American Judaism II

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff Wednesdays, January 15 - March 19 (10 weeks)11:00am Eastern time || 6:00pm Israel Time (*5:00pm Israel time on March 12 and 19 due to the time change)   January 15: The Grand Union Hotel and Its Jewish "In-Crowd" In 1877,…
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Purim Thoughts: Far, Far Away

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The decree has been promulgated and publicized through the empire. 127 provinces have received “hurried” instructions that they should “destroy, massacre, and exterminate all the Jews, young and old, children and women, on a single day, on the…
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Purim: A New Era

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Join as we discuss how Purim ushers in a new era in Jewish history and philosophy. 
Podcast

Mishloach Manot: What's the Connection to the Purim Story?

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

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