Esther, Haman, Mordechai, and all the rest
Everything you didn't know you needed about the Purim story
I've spent my life more or less cloistered among religious Jews, which messes with my sense of what counts as common knowledge. Today, for instance, is Purim, and on Purim the Jewish people read Megillat Esther, the Book of Esther. Apparently, most people don’t know the story.
Now, frankly, I don't really give a shit what people do or don’t know. People …
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