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Jugglers, a mind reader, and Benjamin Netanyahu

Jugglers, a mind reader, and Benjamin Netanyahu
Posted By: Jeni Fa on March 06, 2015

 

What do an Israeli prime minister's speech, a celebrity mind reader, and jugglers performing at a half-marathon have in common?  The Jewish holiday of Purim.

The festival of Purim is celebrated by Jewish people worldwide every year on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar.  It commemorates the story in the Book of Esther of Jewish deliverance in the land of Persia (modern-day Iran).  Haman, the Persian prime minister, hatched a plot to exterminate the Jewish people.  Think of him as an ancient **** planning a holocaust.  A Jewish maiden named Esther had become queen of the land, and risked her life to seek the king's intervention.  As a result, the Jewish people were saved.

Every year, the Jews remember their deliverance in a two-day festival.  In Jerusalem, Purim was observed yesterday and continues today.

The irony of Purim is especially rich this year.  As you know, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently addressed a joint session of Congress on the threat to his people posed by Iran.  Judaism's ancient battle with Persia came to life in his words and warnings.  In other Purim news, Eric Dittelman, a semifinalist on "America's Got Talent," brought his mind-reading act to Ohio State University to help a Jewish group celebrate the holiday.

Meanwhile, a half-marathon will be run today through parts of the southern West Bank.  Entertainment stations will line the route, where clowns, jugglers, and other artists will perform.  Children are dressing in costumes while their parents eat cake and other desserts.  One favorite is a triangular pastry known as Hamantaschen (named for the triangular hat Haman is said to have worn).

A remarkable feature of the Book of Esther is that the name of God nowhere appears in its text.  However, the sovereignty of God is clear on every page.  Dittelman noted that his act points to this "hidden" aspect of God's providence by revealing what is hidden in the mind.  The parties of Purim celebrate the providence and protection of an unseen God over his people.

Christians today can feel as though we're enslaved in ancient Persia.  The **** and its sympathizers seek to murder believers in the Middle East and around the world.  According to John Allen's study,The Global War on Christians90 percent of all religious martyrs today are followers of Christ.  Western culture increasingly rejects biblical morality and ridicules us for our beliefs.  But Peter's word to persecuted believers is still God's word to us: "if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name" (1 Peter 4:16).  When we suffer faithfully and joyfully for our Lord, we reveal our unseen God to our unbelieving world. (Tweet this)

Then it will be true for us as it was for our spiritual ancestors: "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John . . . they recognized that they had been with Jesus" (Acts 4:13).  Who will know that you have been with Jesus today?

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robert powell
Ohio Northern Univ class of 1966


Don't KNOW much about Esther?

Don't KNOW much about Purim?

Don't KNOW much about Hamam?

but I do KNOW that goldenCalf worshipper Disrespected Our President Baraaka Hussein Obama!


Saturday, March 7th 2015 at 6:18PM
Truth B. Told
Automotive Repairman at Self
You are a child rapist and a pedophile and you think that copying and pasting Quran verses is gonna save you. You do realize that having s*x with your daughters, granddaughters, and stepdaughters is just as bad as eating pork or shellfish. The only "cure" for a child molestor, short of a death sentence, is to turn you into a eunuch and cuts your ***** off so you have to squat to pee. Then all children will be safe from an ugly evil sick mother****er like you.
Saturday, March 7th 2015 at 7:23PM
robert powell
Ohio Northern Univ class of 1966

This MONSTER of lowlife ghettoism is SIEBRA, who is another deeJohnson CARTOON

LEAVE BIA with your Decadent Falsehood DISRESPECT of jeniFa Blog

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"......You are a child rapist and a pedophile ...... You do realize that having s## with your daughters, granddaughters, and stepdaughters is just as bad as eating pork or shellfish. The only "cure" for a child molestor, short of a death sentence, ..... and cuts your pen## off so you have to squat to pee. Then all children will be safe from an ugly evil sick mother$$ker like you.

Saturday, March 7th 2015 at 6:23PM
Truth B. Told

************************bsBtold your badge around your neck in picture is the Disease AIDS or death....


Sunday, March 8th 2015 at 8:56AM
Jeni Fa
Nurse at Community Hospital
@ Bro. Rob,

I knew you'd come to the son of Africa's defense! (( Lol)) I do understand your sentiments about what the GOP did. I wonder if the President's own personal experiences Muslim father and step-father, partially growing up in an Islamic country as a youngster (mom's second marriage), and his upbringing by his mother keeps him from totally selling out to Israel like past Presidents?





Tuesday, March 10th 2015 at 2:26PM
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