Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site nwuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!nwuxd!dbaker From: dbaker@nwuxd.UUCP (Darryl Baker) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Purim the fun holiday Message-ID: <133@nwuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 18:56:42 EST Article-I.D.: nwuxd.133 Posted: Wed Feb 29 18:56:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:13:43 EST Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il. Lines: 9 [ blank just in case] If I remember the tradition correctly, one is to get so drunk its impossible to tell friends from enemies. Which goes back to the party thrown by the king(name?) to save mordichiand the rest of the Jews. At my temple there was a carnival with games and prizes. And purim nite was fun since they supplied noise makers to drown Haymen's name. Darryl Baker ihnp4!nwuxd!dbaker