A megillah for a Purim Sheni commemorating a day of salvation the Jewry of the United States during the Civil War. . . .
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☞ Purim Sheni Readings
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on א׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Purim Sheni Readings
Tags:  United States, emancipation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, American Jewry of the United States, American Civil War, General Order No. 11, Ulysses Grant, Cesar Kaskel
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Shared on ט״ו באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings
Tags: 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Egyptian Jewry, Ottoman Egypt, Fustat, 28 Adar, the KA 
Behold, a full text of the Megillah of Fustat, telling a story of a great miracle that happened in 1524 CE (5284 AM). . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ג׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ט (2018-11-11) — under the following terms: Categories: Readings for George Washington's Birthday, Modern Miscellany, Thanksgiving Day Readings, Purim Sheni Readings
Tags: Spanish-Portuguese, Revolutionary War, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Western Sepharadim, George Washington, American Jewry of the United States, Newport, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
In many Jewish communities around the world, there have been traditional scrolls read for “local Purims,” celebrating redemptions for a specific community. Here in America, we don’t really have an equivalent to that. But we do have Thanksgiving, a day heavily inspired by Biblical traditions of celebration, and one long associated with all that is good about America. Some Jewish communities have a tradition on Thanksgiving of reading Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport, where he vows to support freedom of religion, famously writing that the United States “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance” – thus rephrasing words originally written in a prior letter by Moses Seixas (say-shas), the sexton of the Touro Synagogue in Newport. This text includes the original English of both Moses Seixas’ letter to Washington and Washington’s return, as well as a somewhat simplified version of the story of Washington’s visit to Newport. Inspired largely by the style of the Book of Esther, it could be read on Thanksgiving morning during the service, using Esther melodies (or going on detours as per personal choice). . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut)
Shared on י״ד באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Megillot, Purim Sheni Readings
Tags: 15th century C.E., second Purims, 52nd century A.M., medieval megillot, local communal deliverance commemorations, 17th of Sh'vat 
The Megillat Saragossa, also known as the Megillat Syracusa, in Hebrew and English, to be read on the 17th of Sh’vat. . . . |
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