For Mishloach Manot this year Adina got sauce and pasta and I got colanders to give to people. Here is a poem I wrote for it:
Purim in Verse
The Megilah gets terse
When you put it into verse
Esther found when almost all was lost
To save her people might come at an extreme cost
All the Jews united and did not eat
She mustered the courage and did the king meet
In the end Haman was hoisted by his own petard
Thus revealing a divine plan and the holy word of god.
And throughout Persia the Jews found peace.
And the viceroy Mordecai loved Queen Esther his niece *
Just as Oedipus Rex loved his mother Jocasta.
From all of us to you, we hope you enjoy the pasta
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* The Megilah says, “And he adopted Haddasah, i.e., Esther…and when her mother and father died, Mordecai took her to him as a daughter.” (Esther 2) Was she his niece, daughter, or wife? “Took her to him” is always used in the Torah to refer to marriage. The terms “sister” and “daughter” are common expressions of endearment, as we see in other places (e.g., Ruth 2:8, Shir Hashirim 4:9,and Shabbat 13b). That makes the story that much more twisted in that Mordecai is not only her uncle and husband but also Esther’s pimp. Also see Thomas Mann’s The Blood of the Walsungs
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What else rhymes with pasta?
Purim Sameakh-The Frydman Orlows
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