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Purim, Hebrew: פורים , meaning allotment, is a Jewish cheerful feast in memory of the liberation of the Jewish people during their stay in ancient Persia.

The origins of Purim are to be found in the Book of Esther.

It is celebrated on the 14th of Adar (in Jerusalem on the 15th of Adar).

Date

  • 2017: sunset, 11 March - sunset, 12 March


Images for kids

  • Pieter Pietersz. Lastman - The Triumph of Mordechai

    The Triumph of Mordechai, 1624 painting by Pieter Pietersz Lastman (Rembrandt House Museum)

  • Esther Scroll - Google Art Project

    Esther Scroll

  • Haman defeated

    Haman defeated (1578 engraving)

  • Gan-Shmuel (997008137081605171

    People dressed up for Purim. Gan Shmuel Kibbutz, 1952

  • Jerusalem Purim street scene

    Children during Purim in the streets of Jerusalem (2006)

  • Purim Street Party in Tel aviv (16737674266)

    Purim in the streets of Tel Aviv (2015)

  • Megillat Esther (1)

    Megillat Esther with Torah pointer

  • Purim gragger

    A wooden Purim gragger (Ra'ashan)

  • 2 Mishloach Manot

    Gaily wrapped baskets of sweets, snacks and other foodstuffs given as mishloach manot on Purim day.

  • PikiWiki Israel 28013 Purim at Bnei Brak

    Orthodox Jewish men drinking at a Purim tish in Bnei Brak (2012)

  • Purim22

    Israeli girl dressed up as a cowboy while holding her Purim basket of candies (2006)

  • Purim 2016 Dresden (07)

    Purim spiel in Dresden, Germany (2016)

  • Homemade hamantaschen2

    Homemade prune hamantaschen

  • Purim, woodcut, sefer menhagim

    Purim woodcut (1741)

  • Feast of lots

    Megillah reading (1764)

  • Purim woodcut

    Purim (1657 engraving)

  • Purim woodcut 2

    Purim (1699 engraving)

  • Megillah

    1740 illumination of an Ashkenazic megillah reading. One man reads while another follows along and a child waves a noise-maker.

  • Isaac and Michal Herzog in Megillah reading event at the Ahavat Tzion Synagogue in Beit Shemesh, March 2022 (GPOABG1 13)

    President of Israel Isaac Herzog attends megillah reading (2022).

  • FrozenPurim

    Frozen-themed Megillah reading (2014).

  • Me'ah Berachot6

    18th-century manuscript of the prayer of Al HaNissim on the miracles of Purim.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Purim para niños

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