{"id":6197,"date":"2012-03-08T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:43:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:43:21","slug":"of-esther-israel-and-iran-pt-i-purim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=6197","title":{"rendered":"Of Esther, Israel and Iran, pt. I &#8211; Purim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Purim, the gift of a scroll ]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Megillat-Esther.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Megillat-Esther.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Megillat Esther\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Megillat-Esther.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Megillat-Esther-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Judaism\/holiday9.html\"><strong>Festival of Purim<\/strong><\/a> in the year 5772 of the Jewish calendar, and in preparation for the event and in light of current geopolitics, PM <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> presented Pres. <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> with a <em>Megillah <\/em>&#8212; a scroll containing the biblical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breslov.com\/bible\/Esther.htm\">Book of Esther<\/a>, which it is a <em>mitzvah <\/em>for Jews to listen to on Purim &#8212; only last week.<\/p>\n<p>Today is also <strong>International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong> in the year 2012 of the Common Era.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Purim is a festive celebration, and while I hope to post follow ups on the tangled topics of scriptural interpretation and prophetic politics in the coming days, I thought it appropriate to open this series of posts with an image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/loc\/Megillah.html\">an early Megillah from the Library of Congress<\/a> (see above), to raise a glass of virtual wine in honor of the dual event, and to wish all ZP readers <em>Chag Purim Sameach<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Purim, the gift of a scroll ] Today is the Festival of Purim in the year 5772 of the Jewish calendar, and in preparation for the event and in light of current geopolitics, PM Benjamin Netanyahu presented Pres. Barack Obama with a Megillah &#8212; a scroll containing the biblical Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,93,635,717,533,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-iran","category-israel","category-judaism","category-religion","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}