Matan Emunah Essay:
Many Mentors in Megillat Esther
If we look at the Megillah characters and their behaviors, each choice and action can teach us a lesson for our own lives.
If we look at the Megillah characters and their behaviors, each choice and action can teach us a lesson for our own lives.
Captivity survivor Agam Berger calls on the public to attend a Megillah reading at Hostages Square. "Together, we will reverse the lot and bring back our 59 brothers and sisters."
Several hundred residents of the Binyamin region held prayers and the reading of the Book of Esther where a terrorist fired on an Israeli minibus and killed an IDF soldier on Friday.
Zvi Elimelech Sharbaf, chairman of Nachala movement: We expect the government to allow us to immediately return to our homes in Evyatar.
PM slams soldiers who refuse to report for duty at reading of Book of Esther at Border Police base.
MDA's national call center, along with responding to emergency calls, also held a megillah reading.
The answer is particularly apt for our times.
We suffer from totalitarian incursions: cancel culture, propagandized news, government surveillance, and more, as did the Jews of Persia.
Dozens participate in reading of the Book of Esther led by the Rosh Yehudi movement in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.
The minute details of the Mishkan serve as “coming attractions” of the Temples. The Book of Esther does so for the miracles of Redemption.
Netanyahu said before a reading of the Book of Esther that the Islamic Republic, as ancient Persia, is trying to destroy the Jewish people.
Israeli organization accuses Reform Movement of siding with Israel's enemies, calls on PM to stand strong in meeting with Reform leaders.
A lecturer in the IDF's education division gives a anti-religious diatribe against the Book of Esther.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin notes that Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef himself permitted women to read the Book of Esther for other women.
Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate claims hareidi flyer that quotes Scroll of Esther incites violence.
Rabbi Mordechai Nagari tells Arutz Sheva the Supreme Court would 'strike down' the hanging of the Book of Esther's genocidal arch-villain.
Netanyahu draws a scriptural parallel between Israel's face-off with Iran and Purim for US President Barack Obama.