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Jewish Practice Jewish Holidays Purim 2026

Purim Study

Purim Dvar Torahs, Essays, Teachings and Questions

Want to read up about Purim, its message and observance? Here’s the best place to start.

Lessons and Insights

Lessons and Insights

Contemporary Messages

14 Facts About Queen Vashti

Purim and the Betrayal of American Jewry

Advanced Study

Essays on various Purim subjects

Why Did Mordecai Not Bow to Haman?

How Purim Flips Theology Inside-Out and Upside-Down

Purim Messages

Correspondence from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

Our Secret of Survival

Why We Didn't Succumb

Questions & Answers

Purim Questions & Answers

From our Ask the Rabbi Inbox

What Happened to Queen Esther After the Purim Story?

What Did Queen Esther Look Like?

Poppy Seeds

Short samplings of the Purim "pastry"

A Throw of Dice

Megillah with Commentary

Megillah With In-Depth Commentary—Side by Side Version

By Yosef Marcus

Text of Megillah

Funny Study

Concepts Packaged in Purim Humor

Wonder of Wonders: Three Miracles Discuss Their Craft

Laws & Lore

From the classic work Sefer Hatodaah

Remember Amalek

Mobilization & Fasting

From The Library

From The Library

Purim Ideas from our Library

Likkutei Sichot