Posts so far for Purim

2013

1. Torah codes in Megillat Esther.

2. Some fun sources on the megillah.

3. Some more Minchas Shai on Megillat Esther.

2012

1. YU Purim To-Go, 5772.

2011

• Haman vs. Mordechai in rebuilding the Bet Hamikdash
• YU Purim-To Go and another roundup from the same source.
• Vay-hi in the days of Achashverosh
• Rabbi Natan Slifkin has the Ultimate Ban, which someone (it seems from Queens) wrote up five years ago.

2010

• Aruch Hashulchan on getting drunk on Purim
• The chiyyuv, or issur, of getting drunk on Purim. In which I seriously explain how nishtaneh hateva applies.
• Purim Drunkenness -- an abomination!
• Missing the beginning of megillah leining.
• Rav Yaakov Emden's Eight-legged camel.
• The Vilna Gaon on the trup in megillat Ester.

2009

• R' Zechariah ben Saruk's perush on Megillat Achashverosh.
• Megillah sources online
• Thoughts on the ten sons of Haman
• This year's kol koreh -- the tznius of eyebrows and eyelashes.
• Whether there are plot holes in megillas Esther.
• Paying taxes on mishloach manot.
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2008

• The prayer for an edible matzah.
• Laining the megillah by day and night.
• Shoe-tossing as a sign of contempt
• Purifying the megillah - a kol koreh.

2007

• Rif on Bavli Megillah
• Not my own, but a woman laining megillah cast as a chumra. Purim Torah.
• The dangers of taking midrashim figuratively, about Esther's green skin.
• Further perils of taking midrashim figuratively, about Vashti's tail.
• And as a follow-up, considering Vashti's tail and Esther's green skin, on the matter of midrashic literalism and historicity

2006

• Bush's Daf Yomi shiur, which started as a Purim spoof. With Purim approaching, it may be a good idea to keep this possible repercussion in mind.
• Achashverosh's true identity

2005

• Multitude, majority, and lectio difficilior - lerov echav

2004

• Dual Etymology in Esther's Name, and the hidden miracle as a theme present in the megillah itself.