This Saturday night, Jewish families will celebrate the spring holiday of Purim. I have written about Purim before on my blog since it is a wonderful family holiday where kids dress up in costume, give gifts to friends and family, eat a festive meal and generally enjoy the celebratory feeling.
Last year, Roz Babener, the director [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Purim’
February 26, 2010
Pots and Pans for Purim
March 10, 2009
Purim
938) Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim is characterized by a public recitation of the Book of Esther, giving mutual gifts of food and drink (mishloach manot), giving charity to the poor, and a celebratory meal. Purim is a wonderful time for families. Everyone is encouraged to wear costumes, play-act and eat hamentaschen, [...]
March 23, 2008
Asking for forgiveness when you behave inappropriately….
636) Volunteered to help out with the Cookie Dough delivery for our school. Harder physical work than I had imagined.
637) Volunteered to pick up some garden product for our upcoming plant sale.
638) In Judaism, during our spring holiday of Purim we make gifts for others and deliver them. These are suppose to be gifts that [...]
February 28, 2008
Hamantaschen Mitzvahs
609) If you haven’t ever heard of the Jewish holiday of Purim we celebrate it each March. One of the symbols of the holiday is triangular shaped cookies called Hamantashen. For more than 30 years, men and women in my synagogue have gathered to make, bake and sell these cookies as a fundraiser. It is [...]
March 3, 2007
Three women, three mitzvot
On some mornings when I wake up, I am not sure what mitzvot I will participate in during the day, but it never fails that opportunities occur and today was certainly lots of fun.
56& 57) Today, I spoke with two friends in job transition, in the past month or so I had given each a [...]
