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the Talmud.
Yet here we are, in the Hebrew month of Adar, and life in lockdown – with an acute awareness of our own mortality – is hardly conducive to the emergence of feelings of joy.
For many of us, Purim last year is when the pandemic reached our communities and approaching this year’s celebration is complicated by the emotions anniversaries bring.
The Purim story is a historical novel. Read by Jewish communities who have, for millennia, lived with and understood Haman-like danger and longed for Esther-like heroism.
Although we see the festival as a children’s story, the heart of the story is inescapably dark, it’s an awfulness that is all too easy to know.