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Holiday for which hamantaschen are baked
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purim
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Purim (; Hebrew : Pûrîm " lots ", from the word pur , related to Akkadian : pūru ) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman , who was planning to kill all the Jews. This took place in the ancient Persian Empire . ...
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Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Jewish festival on the 14th of Adar (in commemoration of the defeat of Haman's plot), late 14c., from Hebrew purim , literally "lots" (plural of pur ), identified with haggoral "the lot" (Esther iii:7, ix:24), perhaps from Akkadian puru "stone, urn," "which ...
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He taught them to eat out-of-doors during Succoth, and of course he taught them to drink themselves to a merry stupor on Purim.