the Jewish holiday poram begins tomorrow
and joining me in studio now is Mari
roses in ski I love this I absolutely
love this so for those at home who are
not familiar with this Jewish Jewish
celebration let's educate them let's
educate me let's educate everybody
watching okay I love your storytelling
by the way too during break Marjorie was
explaining to me the story with these
little masks so let's do this for our
viewers okay very simple yes okay simple
simple purchase centuries ago there was
a king Ashe Varys there's a king and he
had a wife Vashti and um this man was a
party party King threw lavish parties
for the village for people everybody and
wanted his queen to dance and entertain
and she said absolutely not no so he had
her executed he had her executed so she
passes away she passes away
she's he's looking for a new queen this
is the new queen the new Queen Esther
Esther and she's Jewish but she doesn't
reveal really her background and his
prime minister doesn't like that she's
Jewish
or her Prime Minister had a run-in with
her cousin Mordecai Jewish she's Jewish
and mortal I refuse to bow to him and so
he said to the King King you know what
we need to banish these Jewish people
and so she's sitting off to the side he
said the Prime Minister says that to the
king - the king and no he wanted to kill
all the Jewish people
yes he want to kill all the Jewish
people and he picked a day and he
actually picked Lots which is poram
picked Lots
and that day was the 14th of Adar
actually this month adar right and
Esther found out about it and told the
King and he was horrified and said nope
instead of killing all the Jews let's
kill Haman and the plot was foiled Haman
was the Prime Minister yes okay and so
he actually hung at the gallows that was
meant to be for more
and so today it's a very joyous holiday
that we celebrate
there's customs dressed in costume yes
and so it kicks off tomorrow and take me
through the day how the celebration
begins and how long it lasts and when it
ends ok so it lasts for a day and we
read the story of Esther and every time
we have several traditions that we
observe you just gave you the synopsis
we do we read the story of Esther and
every time Haman's name is mentioned we
make noise and we boo and oh yeah ok
food right is a big part of it we give
gifts of food to friends and family this
is called the mission off my note and we
make traditional cookies last year we
demonstrated how to make these
hamantaschen with traditional filling
but this year you can put anything in
here I know they're really yummy but you
can put anything in here you have in
here ok chocolate chip that's peanut
butter and chocolate chip this one and
this is Girl Scout cookies Samoas we
broke them up and put them in the ears
love it
yes and then here's a raspberry and
chocolate for the gourmet cookie lover
and my daughter made pizza hamantaschen
and those look so savory so you could
really make these traditionals really
prune and jelly but we got created this
year but also to matching the shape the
shape loves it's a triangular shape the
shape of Haman's hat yeah did you talk
about what your daughter made because
it's unusual the pizza will you just put
in some marinara sauce and some of it
she's on time ladies thank you and dress
in costume thank you so much for coming
in again you are with the Jacksonville
Jewish Center sisterhood yes yeah thank
you so much for coming happy poor happy
poor for more information all you have
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