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Purim (; Hebrew: ืคึผืึผืจึดืืโ Pûrîm "lots", from the word ืคืืจโ pur, translated as 'lot' in the Esther, perhaps related to Akkadian pลซru 'stone, urn'; also called the Festival of Lots) is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews, as recounted in the Book of Esther (ืืืืืช ืืกืชืจโ Megillat Ester in Hebrew; usually dated to the 5th century BC).
Haman was the royal vizier to King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I or Artaxerxes I of Persia, "Khshayarsha" and "Artakhsher" in Old Persian, respectively), and...
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ืจึนืืฉื ืึทืฉึธึผืื ึธืโ), literally meaning "head [of] the year", is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (ืืึนื ืชึฐึผืจืึผืขึธืโ), literally "day of shouting or blasting". It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days (ืึธืึดืื ื ืึนืจึธืึดืืโ Yamim Nora'im. "Days of Awe") specified by Leviticus 23:23โ32 that occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to the ecclesiastical year, where the first month Nisan...
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