
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not mention God even once, and yet... it's in the Bible! How can we explain God's absence from the story? What does "Purim" even mean, and why is the holiday named after an almost irrelevant detail of the story? Doug and Pesach unpack the recently celebrated holiday of Purim, discuss Doug's first time in a synagogue, and explain some puzzling practices (Drinking alcohol? Dressing in costume?? Making noise in synagogue??? Triangular cookies????).
By Doug Reed and Pesach Wolicki5
4141 ratings
The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not mention God even once, and yet... it's in the Bible! How can we explain God's absence from the story? What does "Purim" even mean, and why is the holiday named after an almost irrelevant detail of the story? Doug and Pesach unpack the recently celebrated holiday of Purim, discuss Doug's first time in a synagogue, and explain some puzzling practices (Drinking alcohol? Dressing in costume?? Making noise in synagogue??? Triangular cookies????).

1,424 Listeners

2,713 Listeners

2,180 Listeners

400 Listeners

21,132 Listeners

2,209 Listeners

66,901 Listeners

2,463 Listeners

2,304 Listeners

40,357 Listeners

176 Listeners

2,222 Listeners

464 Listeners

414 Listeners

3 Listeners