I recently finished reading The Seventh Handmaiden by Judith Pransky. It is a retelling of the Purim story from the perspective of a character who barely gets a mention in the Megillah. It’s really well done and I enjoyed it. #Mazeldon #Jewish #Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #Purim

https://littlemiao.dreamwidth.org/762.html

The time #Haman had determined by lot became a reversal: the enemies of the #Jewish people would themselves be overcome in a great slaughter.

#Mordecai would be elevated as second to the king; #Esther would decree for Israel to observe the feast of #Purim ("lots") in perpetuity.

Shalom Ahmedabad | Purim with Amdavadi Jews — A Documentary on Gujarat's Bene Israel Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0ptoC1IY4

#Jews #BeneIsrael #Judaism #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #Maharashtra #India #Purim

While every person on my team who reports to me as their manager is based in the US, none of them were born in the US and none of them are white. They are each the best at what they do and I would be completely screwed if anyone were to tell me that I had to start over and hire an all-white team because of some garbage about them being #DEI hires. Because, and I realize I am repeating myself now, THEY ARE EACH THE BEST AT WHAT THEY DO!

Thankfully the company for whom I work sees value in DEI. They were supporters of DEI before it even existed as an acronym spat from the mouths of #republicans as if it were a curse.

I am white. Very white. Painfully white some might say. I am reflective in sunlight. As I said, they are not. There are no issues on either side, I'm not secretly bemoaning there not being pale people on my team. Years before I joined the company, one of the gents on the team tried to manage the team and quickly realized they did not want that job and they very much wanted to continue being an engineer. So they got a manager and I got an awesome team of engineers who all wanted a manager.

So all this garbage about team cohesion and all that, it's just that, it's garbage. I wished my team a happy #holi this weekend, they wished me a happy #purim. I sometimes say good morning in Kannada (since it's the only dialect I know a few words in) and the two folks on the team who speak that dialect get a kick out of it. But beyond all that, we're just a bunch of engineers working on technical issues. I'm a meat shield that keeps them from getting pestered all the time and they do their jobs like the badass team they are.

I do plan to move with intent in supporting DEI when I hire and fill the reqs I have open. I believe such initiatives are important, but it's not like it's somehow a heavy lift for me to take this on. I find that teams of individuals who are from different backgrounds are wonderful, the only thing the disrupts team cohesion is hiring a bigot who cares about the skin color of their team mates, not hiring someone who has a different skin color, or a different gender presentation, or who loves someone of the same sex as them, or whatever else Republicans claim they care about today.

Sod off and let me build my team the way I want.

Purim in Tel Aviv should be on your bucket list! 😃💙 Trust me.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHR5tydt1SI/?igsh=MXI2bjd5Nm15MG9mcA==

#tlv #purim #israeltravel #israeltrip #holiday

New from Solzy at the Movies: Esther and the King: A Terrible Purim Movie

#EstherAndTheKing #Purim #Jewish #film #movies

https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/03/16/esther-and-the-king/

Die #Geiselverhandlungen von König #David

#Purim und die heutige Botschaft der #Bibel für #Israel nach dem 7. Oktober

https://www.israelheute.com/erfahren/die-geiselverhandlungen-von-koenig-david/

#Glaube #Religion #Christentum #Judentum

Happy Purrrrim!

#purim #caturday #catContent #catsOfMastodon #catstodon #fediFeline #Mazeldon

א פרייליכן פורים
Happy Purim

#purim

Happy #purim to all who observe!

@InfoSecSherpa Chag #Purim Sameah!

I just realized it's both #Purim and #PiDay.

#holidays #Mazeldon #Jewish #math

👸🏻👑👺✡️ #Pourim #FlorianeChinsky

Chag #Purim Sameach !

- https://rabbinchinsky.fr/2025/03/13/%f0%9f%91%b8%f0%9f%8f%bb%f0%9f%91%91%f0%9f%91%ba%e2%9c%a1%ef%b8%8f-pourim-cest-ce-soir-et-demain-rv-a-17h/

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Comment fêter Pourim alors que nos situations personnelles et la situation mondiale sont dramatiques? On peut se référer peut-être à l’enseignement de Rabbi NaHman de Bratslav (XVIIIe siècle).

Il disait, vous le savez » C’est un commandement fondamental d’être toujours dans la joie ».

On connait moins l’autre aspect de son enseignement: La joie implique de s’autoriser à vivre la tristesse et tous les autres sentiments, à les inviter dans la danse.

Il se rapproche en cela du poète persan du XIIIe siècle, Rumi.

Lui ne parlait pas d’intégrer tous les sentiments dans la danse, mais d’accueillir toutes les émotions comme des hôtes de choix dans sa maison.

L’image est différente, l’idée est la même.

Pour qu’il y ait de la joie, il faut qu’il y ait de l’authenticité, et donc de la spontanéité, de la sécurité, de l’accueil.

Et aussi, bien sûr, l’accueil des aspects les plus durs de notre personnalité (dont nous avons le droit de rire, et c’est même conseillé), et l’accueil des aspects les plus durs de la vie (qui suscitent notre révolte comme notre puissance d’action).

Pourim est la fête de l’absurde, de la dérision, de la célébration de la vie malgré tout, sans déni de rien.

La vie est sans doute plus folle encore que la folie de Pourim

Comme vous le devinez, ce Pourim est particulier pour moi car j’ai été absente pendant un (bien trop) long moment.

Je reprends doucement, mais surement, et je vous souhaite à vous aussi une excellente fête de Pourim! ברוך אתה ה הטוב והמטיב –

Célébrons notre chance d’être en vie.

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Make teeny-tiny sixth-scale hamantaschen for your Barbie & Ken (or in my case: Phicen) #Purim party.

https://dollsexposed.com/2025/03/mini-hamantaschen-sixth-scale-barbie-doll-purim-costume/

#dollsexposed #dollphotography #tutorial #barbie

Happy #Purim to those who celebrate!

Shout out this year to a (new to me) hamantaschen recipe from Nosher. Filled ours with chunky date-pistachio paste and with peach jam. Absolutely amazing, and I'm going to use that dough recipe for butter cookies from now to eternity.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/best-hamantaschen-recipe/

אידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״חג פּורים שמח״ אױפגעפירט פון שבת ליד קאַפּעליע

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Happy Purim!" performed by Sabbathsong Klezmer Band #Yiddish #Purim #Chagsameach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JXGFrkWZk

Am heutigen Abend beginnt für unsere Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger jüdischen Glaubens das Fest „Purim“, das an die Rettung der jüdischen Gemeinschaft im antiken Persien im 5. Jahrhundert vor Christus erinnert.
Es ist selten, dass #Purim, der islamische #Ramadan und die christliche #Fastenzeit zeitlich so zusammenfallen, wie das in diesem Jahr 2025 geschieht - ein guter Anlass, an die gemeinsamen Wurzeln von #Judentum, #Christentum und #Islam (Nennung in Reihenfolge des Entstehens) zu erinnern.⬇️2️⃣

Although memories of the suffering endured by our people will one day be nullified, as Isaiah (65:16) prophesied: "For the former suffering will be forgotten and for they will be hidden from My eye," the celebration of Purim will never be nullified, as it is written (Esther 9:28): "And these days of Purim will not pass from among the Jews, nor will their remembrance cease from their descendants."
(Mishneh Torah, Megillah and Chanukah 2:17)
#Maimonides #MishnehTorah #Purim

14. Mrz: Heute ist #Purim! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/0919c