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2018 is a regular year, with 365 days. 1 Jan. New Year’s Day. 1 Jan. Christmas. 26 Jan. Australia Day. 12 Feb. Royal Hobart Regatta. 14 Feb. Valentine's Day. 12 Mar. Canberra Day. 12 Mar. Adelaide Cup Day. 17 Mar. Saint Patrick's Day. 20 Mar. Autumnal Equinox (Australia) 30 Mar. Good Friday 2025. 1 Apr. Easter Sunday. 22 Apr. Passover. 25 Apr.
- “It Happened in The Days of Ahasuerus”
- Vashti in Modern Literature
- Conclusion
The megillah opens with a display of rudeness: Why, the rabbis wonder, does the text fail to note the king’s title? Shouldn’t it have read: “It happened in the days of KingAhasuerus”? The reason, the rabbis infer, is because, technically, it was true. Ahasuerus was not yet king — he was merely angling to become the monarch of a newly-formed empire....
Like ancient commentaries, modern versions are rife with opportunities for reimagining Vashti. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible cheers, “[Vashti] added new glory to [her] day and generation … by her disobedience; for resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” In her short story Vashti and the Angel Gabriel, Rabbi Jill Hammer imagines the...
The Talmud (Chagigah 3b) describes a lesson taught by Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria in the great yeshivah at Yavneh. “Make your ears like a funnel,” he urged his students, “praise those who deem the matter pure, and those who reject it as impure. Acquire for yourself an understanding heart to listen both to those who validate and those who invalidate.” R...
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Sandra E. Rapoport is an attorney, Bible teacher and award-winning author, whose books give voice to the women of the Hebrew Bible. Sandra was Resident Scholar in Law and Bible at Harvard University. Her third book, Biblical Seductions, won a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist Prize, and was a Boston Globe Top-Ten Bestseller.
The free yearly calendar features the list of holidays in United States for the year 2018. The 12-month single page calendar is available in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PDF format. This free calendar template by General Blue starts on Sunday. It is editable, customizable, downloadable, printable and free. See our United States Holidays 2018 List ...
Sep 9, 2018 · Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally “head of the year”), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur.
Jan 31, 2018 · The Month of Elul - August 12 - September 9, 2018. Fast of Gedaliah - September 12, 2018. Rosh Hashanah, first of the High Holidays, is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G‑d as king. Yom Kippur Site.
Jun 24, 2016 · Sunday. International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. United Nations observance. Mar 25. Sunday. International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members. United Nations observance. Mar 26. Monday.
