It is celebrated to remember and commemorate the defeat of an evil person who called for the annihilation of the Jewish race in Persia in the year 5 B.C.E.
The name of the person who made the decree was HAMAN.
Coincidently, today thousands of years later, the Jews seem to be facing another group that wants to destroy the State of Israel and the Jewish race. This group is called HAMAS.
What seemed like an ancient story and victory to celebrate, unfortunately now seems like more of a threat again and the names are is similar.
The holiday of Purim is celebrated with merriment, costumes, parties, and wonderful food.
We were invited to a party of a very wealthy family near Miami. I'm sharing some of the food arrangements and decorating from the party. They were spectacular! She put up drop cloths to make it look like the city of Persia. I've only seen things like this at Disney!!!
Middle Eastern pastries, dried fruit, and nuts |
A table of all kinds of fruit. Yes, all the fruit is real!! There were about 200 people at the party |
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A table full of bowls of salads such as coleslaws, hearts of palm, kale salads, carrot salads, etc. |
It is traditional to bake three cornered triangular cookies called
Hamantaschen to eat on the holiday of Purim.
I didn't bake this year but I found these vegan hamantaschen recipes online vegan gluten free hamantaschen (but I have not tried the recipes). To make the first one gluten-free, you would need to adjust the flour in the recipe.