According to Jewish tradition, the current Hebrew month of Adar is meant to be joyful. Ancient rabbinic commentators demand: ...

One such month is Adar, a time of joy and celebration, culminating in the holiday of Purim. Adar, which usually falls around February or March, is known in Jewish tradition as a time of increased ...

At the heart of Purim is the story of Esther, a Jew who conceals and then reveals her identity, ultimately using her position ...

It is a profound act of faith to meet death and continue to believe passionately in life. And that faith is truly ...

This upcoming Friday and Shabbat will be Rosh Chodesh Adar. We pray for a month of blessing, peace, Torah, and honor. The month of Adar symbolizes joy – specifically after a great calamity.

while the Jewish calendar marked the arrival of the month of Adar, a time of joy, resilience, and salvation from destruction. These two months – sacred in their respective traditions – offer a ...

More than Nissan, it is actually the month of Adar that teaches us to appreciate G-d’s presence in the everyday world – which is the very real experience of all Jews who have lived since the ...

In the month of Adar we are called to increase in joy. The call comes to us—an echo of an ancient celebration recorded in an ...

What can we learn from the Purim story that can help us navigate living with this partial redemption? How do we move to a paradigm of complete redemption?

Meanwhile, the king's evil vizier, Haman, plots a genocide of Jews throughout the empire, and wins the king's blessing to undertake the massacre on the 14th day of the month of Adar. Esther's ...