The Megillah isn't history. But what is it? According to Rabbi Lizzi (and the scholars she draws from), it is a burlesque, satire, and farce! Learn how that can inform our relationship to the text, Purim, and living in the Diaspora.

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https://www.mishkanchicago.org/shabbat-holidays/holidays/mishkan-chicago-purim-5786/

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Produced by Mishkan Chicago. Music composed, produced, and performed by Kalman Strauss.

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