Yom Nikanor & Purim 🔥🏹🍷

Published: Wed, 03/12/25

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Wishing you a meaningful Yom Nikanor, a joyful Purim, & a Shabbat Shalom!

Danit Grady

The Festival of Nikanor

Is there a value to reviving Yom Nikanor as a festival to celebrate on the night before the Fast of Esther?

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Ki Tisa: The Crisis of the Golden Calf

A mistake that nearly had catastrophic results for the entire people of Israel ultimately revealed Moshe's true greatness as a national leader.

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Breaking Free from Ahashverosh

The objective shouldn't have been greater proximity to power - to replace Haman with Mordekhai as prime minister - but rather the dismantling of an unjust system & a return to Jerusalem.

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The Story of Yom Nikanor

For nearly a thousand years, the 13th of Adar was known on our calendar as Yom Nikanor, commemorating a major Maccabean victory.

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The Loss of Kingship & Prophecy on Purim

HaRav Manitou illuminates the deeper meaning of specific halakhic concepts & historical figures by expanding them into general principles that explain the course of history on a broad universal plane.

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Revealing the Hidden on Purim

The rituals & customs of Purim help us to recognize the Creator behind the curtains of our reality.

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Yom Nikanor

The 13th of Adar was once a Hebrew festival marking the date Yehuda Maccabi defeated the Seleucid-Greek General Nikanor at Adasa.

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Trump's Direct Talks with Hamas

While many nationalist Israelis & their Diaspora supporters have been euphoric over President Trump's pro-Israel rhetoric, his administration's direct talks with Hamas should jerk them awake.

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Purim

Mordekhai rejected the notion that Israel was weak and recognized his people's true inner potential.

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Parshat Ki Tisa: Israel's Underlying Unity

Through a heightened awareness of Israel's true inner essence, we can see past the sharp ideological divisions and appreciate the intrinsic unity beneath and beyond our surface disputes.

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