Purim 2026/5786 is emphatically unusual in the memory of several generations. It is literally Purim, with a repeated history of getting rid of criminal tyrants in the very place when the events of the historic Purim had happened almost two and a half millennia before. This kind of repetition of historical events does not happen in human history often. And it brings a tangible feeling of history on one’s hand, literally. 

But this Purim that we are living in both dimensions of the time: the past and the present at the same time. We also are experiencing a highly reflective holiday which we knew as the funniest one. And this is for the first time in decades. 

I cannot stop thinking of all those innocent civilian victims in Beit Shemesh just before Purim from the vicious........

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