Purim (Hebrew: About this sound פּוּרִים Pûrîm lots from the word pur פור related to Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire where a plot had been formed to destroy them.
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