Календарное. Навстречу Пуриму

Снова жгу глаголом. Первый российский "пуримшпиль", еврейское местничество, и т.д. Сегодняшняя дата тоже не забыта.



Для людей дотошных: упомянутый мидраш о еврейском местничестве :

King’s Servants: But we find that your ancestors bowed down before the ancestors of Haman.
Mordecai: Who was it that bowed down before the ancestors of Haman? אמרין ליה: לא כרע Servants: Did not your ancestor Jacob bow down before Esau his brother, who was Haman’s ancestor?
Mordecai: I am descended from Benjamin and when Jacob bowed down before Esau, Benjamin was not yet born and he did not bow down before any human all his days, as a result of which the Eternal One of the World guarded him in his mother’s womb, until the time that they would go up to the Land of Israel and the Temple would be rebuilt in its land, and the Shekhinah would dwell within its borders, and all the House of Israel would rejoice there and all the nations will bow down and do obeisance in the Land. As for me, I shall not bow down and do obeisance before the evil Haman in front of this gate.