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Mordecai recorded these events. And he sent dispatches to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, charging them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar…
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After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…
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Anonymous
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
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ca. 1524
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Blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai,
Esther my lady.
Viva my lady,
blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai.
David:
It is…
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Anonymous
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Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1699
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In those days, a terrible thing happened,
for two officials of the king committed an offence
against their master, and with a flask,
they plotted to poison the king without delay.
Mordecai, who had…
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Mordechai Dato
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Nothing else makes me really rage
as when a poor man does something [wrong]
he is lost here and there
everyone would happily drink his blood.
But what the rich do here
is always all right
people let…
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Elye Bokher
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1513
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1746
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Meanwhile the queen, wracked by internal anguish,
invites the king and Haman to her banquet
and in joyous hope awaits the sacred stream
of divine mercy form the holy fount-head;
her humble soul bowed…
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João Pinto Delgado
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Rouen, Kingdom of France
(Rouen, France)
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17th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
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ca. 1850
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It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…
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Six days left. Less than a week! That means, after next Saturday I would no longer see Sayyid. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t change my clothes. I gritted my teeth, because I was afraid the shriek…
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Sami Michael
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Haifa, Israel
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1979