It is interesting to note that in the Second Purim 2018 begins at sunset on Wednesday, Feb
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2024: March 21 and 24-25 2025: March 13-15 2026: March 2-4 2027: March 22-24 2028: March 9 and 11-12 Note: The Jewish calendar date begins at sundown of the night
Purim is celebrated on the 14th day in the
Purim in 2016 started on Thursday, the 24th of March (24/3/2016) and continued for 2 days until Friday, the 25th of March
Thursday - Monday 11-15 Adar II, 5784 March 21-25, 2024 Click here to receive all Holiday Guides via e-mail, The Holiday of Purim includes the fast day called Taanis Esther, the
Purim 2024 begins on Saturday night, March 23 and continues through Sunday, March 24 (extending through Monday in Jerusalem )
Purim Is the Jolliest Day of the Year
Purim is a festival when Jews remember Esther, who was the Queen of Persia more than 2,000 years ago
(see Law #4 below) What is the source of this fast? Purim is different from some other Jewish holidays in that the laws of the Sabbath are not observed during the holiday
Wednesday, March 23rd is day number 83 of the 2016 calendar year with -7 years, -10 months, -6 days until Purim 2016
Changes in the solar calendar mean the specific date of Purim changes each year
Purim commemorates the survival of a Jewish community marked for death in Purim for Hebrew Year 5776 began on Wednesday, 23 March 2016 and ended on Thursday, 24 March 2016
It commemorates a time when Jewish people were saved from death in the Persian empire around the fourth century BCE, according to the Book of Esther
* We give food gifts, called mishloah manot, to our friends
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Meaning and Origins
This ordinance developed into the special Purim meal, or seudah, which takes place during daylight hours on the holiday