Going Boom on Purim?

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred and doing some looking around and they’re coming up with an interesting – troubling – theory about Iran, and Purim, Mordecai and Esther:

There is a Jewish Holiday, Purim, that commemorates the deliverance of Persian Jews from a great and evil oppressor, not unlike the evil current day oppressor and hater, in the same place and in the same land.

As recounted in the Book of Esther, in that time, the King appointed a regent, Haman, who publicly announced that he would eradicate the Jews.

The people, he said, would take up arms and would eliminate the Jews, once and for all. The Regent, Haman, believed that if he could intoxicate the people of Persia with hate for the Jews, they would not see the path of destruction the Kingdom was to unleash in the quest for more power and a greater empire. The peace of the nation would be shaken as they were led from a time of quiet into a time of upheaval.

There was to be a lottery that named the date and time of the persecution of the plot. This was no mere bureaucratic edict- Persia at the time was a military power and by virtue of her strength, had great influence on neighboring nations. In fact, Persian might was so feared that nations thousands of miles away feared antagonizing the Persians.

Hmmmmm….this sounds AWFULLY FAMILIAR…have I seen this movie?

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Jewish history relates the emergence of two rather unlikely heroes of the legend- the winner of that beauty contest, Esther, and her rather elderly uncle, Mordecai.

As the story unfolds, Mordecai and Esther were to save the Jews. The story relates that there was no alternative but for the Jews to take up arms and defend themselves. They did, and they prevailed. Of course, the story is more complicated than that.

The wheels of the bus indeed go round and round and history is once more, repeating itself.

Ah…that’s why it seems so familiar! We’re kinda living it! And who might Esther and Mordecai be, in this re-run through history?

You will have to go read Sigmund. Probably the most thoughtful thing you’ll read tonight.