Happy Purim

Today our professor (Mel Siegel) took us to a jewish temple on occasion of Purim, a jewish holiday. Purim celebrates victory over a tyrant during the Babylonian Exile (around 400 BCE). The holiday is observed in a wild carnival spirit, with the kids dressed up in funny costumes during a service in which everyone is encouraged to make a lot of noise every time the tyrant's name is mentioned during the reading of the story.The experience was interesting. After the celebration, the Rabbi(Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law; A Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher) of that temple, on seeing group of 10 Indian students came to us and gave us a tour of temple. He explained us some finer details about temple design. He also told us that almost every Jew learns hebrew, despite being in any part of world.In the end all of us got a delicious pie and chocolates. It was a nice experience.

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