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Celebrating Purim
 Get
together with friends and family for a Purim party.
Let the children dress up as the characters found
in the Scroll of Esther (King Ahasuerus, Vashti,
Queen Esther, Mordecai, and the evil Haman.) Use
groggers (instructions later in this section),
and serve Hamantashen cookies.
A Hamantashen Happening!
One year, our family (Robin
speaking) was making Hamantashen for a Purim party.
I was making a quadrupled batch of batter. Our
three smallest children were standing on chairs
helping. I usually put out all the ingredients
for the children to hand to me when they help.
I needed the vanilla, so I got down a plastic
container filled with several bottles of spices
and seasonings, from the cabinet, and placed it
on the counter. Of course, the phone rang, and
as I was talking on the phone, my eighteen-month-old
dumped an entire, large bottle of imitation bacon
bits into the batter. Bacon bits—in a Jewish
cookie batter! I was speechless. I had used the
last of my eggs and butter and we were attending
a Purim party that night. I started digging out
the bacon bits before they got mixed into the
batter. It looked like I got most of the red bits
out—until I baked them. Each of the cookies
had a few red bits showing. The cookies still
tasted good, and the bacon wasn’t real, so
I took them to the party. Ever since we laughingly
refer to those cookies as the "Pagan Bacon
Haman Cookies." (See recipe this section–without
the bacon bits!)
Gifts to Others
 Gifts
of food and clothing to the ill or needy are also
a custom established by the Jewish people in Esther’s
time. Let your family think of someone special
that you could bless. A small package of goodies,
or a larger food basket will depend on your income
or the number of families you want to remember
on this holiday.
The above is just a tiny sampling from the giant
telephone size book, A
Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays. The
book includes graphics, games, puzzles, recipes,
and much more for the seven holidays in Leviticus,
Sabbath, Hanukkah, and Purim
More About Purim
| Purim
in Bible Times | Celebrating
Purim | Jewish
Customs |
| Messiah
in Purim | Purim
Links | Childrens
books |
| Audio
Purim Story | Purim
Recipes |
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