Purim: Why is the book of Esther holy if God isn't mentioned?
When you look back on the Book of Esther, it is so easy to see divine providence pulling the strings of this farce.
MEGILLAT ESTHER is read – with a becostumed queen in attendance– on Purim eve 2023, in Tel Aviv’s Great Synagogue.(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)ByRABBI AHARON E. WEXLER