{"id":2863,"date":"2025-03-07T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:00:03","slug":"march-1-2025-celebrate-purim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"March 1, 2025 – Celebrate Purim!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purim is observed a month before Passover, and the focus is simply reading the Book of Esther. This feast is probably the original \u201cmorality play\u201d with audience participation. A mysterious part of the Purim feast is the rabbinical command to drink enough wine so that you can\u2019t distinguish between \u201cYay, Mordechai!\u201d and \u201cBoo, Haman!\u201d \u2013 and the fact that God is never mentioned.<\/p>\n

Notes on Purim<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026 Even More Notes on Purim<\/a><\/p>\n

The Connection Between Purim and Yom Kippur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purim is observed a month before Passover, and the focus is simply reading the Book of Esther. This feast is probably the original \u201cmorality play\u201d with audience participation. A mysterious part of the Purim feast is the rabbinical command to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}