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The Rabbis see an implicit (if unlikely) comparison between the holiday of Purim and High Holiday, Yom Kippurim, through their similar sounding names. The letter “kaf” in Kippur, meaning “like,” hints that Yom Kippurim is literally “a day like Purim”. And in fact, both holidays revolve around the similar theme of a “Pur”, a lottery, which in each case determines life and death. On Yom Kippur there is the lottery of the two goats who bear the sins of the Jewish people, and on Purim of course, there is the infamous lottery of Haman. Furthermore, Hazal understand both holidays to share the concept of receiving the Torah. According to this notion, on Yom Kippur Moses pres