TETSAVEH/PURIM 5781
02/25/2021 06:00:44 AM
Feb25
TEIn honour of Purim, we’ll change the nature of our devar Torah.
Here are some Purim jokes: scroll down for the answers:
- What was Esther’s gown made of? (I know, a preposition is something you never end a sentence with!)
- Why do some people drink on Purim?
- The proper name for Yom Kippur is Yom Ha-Kippurim, which could be translated (well, not really) as “a day like Purim.” So, what do these 2 holidays have in common (My thanks to my grandson Shmuli Novogoder in Israel for this question.)
- Why is it that, when the holiday is first named in the megilla, it is not called Purim” but “Furim?” (This is not really a joke, but is a technical point.)
- What dance do we do on Purim?
Answers:
- The gown was made of poly-ester!
- Because it is called “pour-im!”
- They have lots in common! (Meaning: on Yom Kippur, in the Temple, they cast lots between the 2 goats. And, of course, Purim means the casting of lots.
- A basic rule of masoretic vocalization. When the letter pe comes at the beginning of a word, and immediately follows a word ending in the letters yod, he, vav, or ‘aleph, and the musical note that comes before the word is a conjunctive note, the dot disappears, changing the letter from what linguists call a plosive bilabial to a fricative bilabial. (This is really true! See Esther 9:26.)
- hava megillah
Happy Purim and Shabbat shalom!
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