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  1. Tetzaveh / Purim 2021 - Yael Ridberg

    Purim 2020 was the last in-person event celebrated by many Jewish communities around the country before the COVID-19 shutdown. Little did we understand that the essential psychological principle of Purim of hafichut – the reversibility of our world – would come to mean something even more profound than what we had come to expect. 

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/righting-world-turned-upside-down

    Posted on: 2021/02/26 - 12:28pm

  2. Zakhor text study - Amalek - Out There or In Here?

    The Shabbat before the holiday of Purim is known as Shabbat Zakhor (“Remember!”). We read an additional Torah passage (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) recalling Amalek, a genocidal enemy from our distant past who is both the spiritual and physical ancestor of Haman, the villain of the Purim story.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/amalek-out-there-or-here-text-study-shabbat-zakhor

    Posted on: 2021/02/19 - 10:20am

  3. Purim D'var Torah Elyse Wechterman Jstreet 2020

    This d’var Torah for Purim was originally posted on the J Street website on March 5, 2020 as The Two-Way Street | Purim: The Danger Of A Single Story. It was based on the text study Purim, Prejudice and the Dangers of a Single Story (PDF) presented by American Jewish World Service.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/purim-danger-single-story

    Posted on: 2020/03/06 - 9:48am

  4. Communal Mishlo'ach Manot

    “And therefore the Jews make the 14th of the month of Adar: a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending choice portions to one another.” (Esther 9:19)

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/communal-mishloach-manot

    Posted on: 2017/04/21 - 12:16pm

  5. Four Lessons We Learn from Purim DT Purim Tepperman