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My shul has a special Megilla reading (first reading - motzei Shabbos) where the Ba'al Magilla reads the Megilla using voices for each of the characters in the story, yet renders a 100% kosher reading. So Achashveros sounds like a drunken fool, Haman sounds like a maniac, Esther sounds like a delight, etc. He adds in slight sound effects to indicate when somebody gets killed, gets drunk, etc, all the while still giving a fully kosher reading. I've never heard anything like it. For Shacharis the next morning, he gives a straight forward, yet still beautiful reading.
We also have a shul Purim seuda scheduled for Sunday night with nearly the entire membership of the shul scheduled to attend. We picked an offsite location for its sturdyness, not it's beauty, if you know what I mean. Actually, many in the shul hold by not drinking heavily on Purim, although the ones who do hold by heavy drinking have to be closely watched. Sounds like lots of fun and games, but we never lose the focus on the large numbers of mitzvahs that must be fulfilled on Purim.
My kids LOVE this holiday. Driving around town handing out shaloach manos to our friends is such fun. The seuda is always a blast. And the depth of the meaning of this holiday just seems to get deeper every year for me. When I get a second later on, I'll try to re-tell my Rav's Shabbos drash last week, where he explained how matan Torah at Har Sinai (accepting the Torah at Mount Sinai) was actually a conditional event and not binding on us Jews, but at Purim we re-accepted the Torah and the obligations that come with it. Fascinating...
First one with a new Schul as well.
I am sure we will do something on the 24th with the Hebrew school families.
OMG. It just clicked!!!!! I need to dig out my hamentachen
Recipes....I like one while my family prefers another one...
We are so busy eating Girl Scout cookies, my waist line can't take another kind of cookie!!!
It's the best time of the year - all of my coworkers try to show each other up with hamentaschen so I get tons of homemade kinds to try. Still on the lookout for that elusive poppyseed - I have to go to a specific neighborhood to get it and it's so crowded that I get scared driving in! Especially with all the snow decimating parking. For now I'll just covet my cherry and apricot varieties.
I LOVE hamentaschen. My mom comes to my house to bake them every year with my wife, but she was unable this year. This year we bought some from Costco - not the same thing.
I knew this thread would be about hamentaschen. My old church was a tiny Episcopal parish in a predominantly Jewish town, and around Purim, someone would always bring in hamentashen for our after-service coffee hour.
Enjoy your holiday, Jewish CD posters!
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My mom comes to my house to bake them every year with my wife, but she was unable this year. This year we bought some from Costco - not the same thing.
