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      Audio: Purim Unmasked with Rabbi David Fohrman

      First Publish: 3/19/2008, 4:55 PM

      A7 Radio's "The Tovia Singer Show"

      In this eye-opening interview, renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi David Fohrman explores the enigmatic Book of Esther we read on Purim. Laced with irony, it deigns that our holiday is to be named "Lots" - Purim - after the lots that Haman threw in his attempt to wipe out the Jews. But why name the holiday after the designs of our mortal enemy? And why name it for the very notion of chance and happenstance that our tradition seems to reject? In this stunning program, Rabbi Fohrman seeks out hidden themes which animate the Megillah. In piecing these together, he constructs a theory of Jewish history that balances themes of law and chance, and gives us a model for interpreting our national experience from the times of Esther and Haman to the era of the Holocaust and the rebirth of a Jewish State.

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      Rabbi Tovia Singer is the director of Outreach Judaism and a frequent lecturer on Israeli political issues. He hosts the Tovia Singer Show live every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00PM12 midnight New York time on Israel National Radio.