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March 9, 2009 9:31 pm at 9:31 pm
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cantoresq
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Moish01, I’m not sure people really celebrated Purim until after the destruction of the 2nd Temple. I wonder if Chazal instituted Purim, a holiday of questionable historicity and which was not observed, to supplant the Feast of Nicanor in order to play down Hasemonean significance.