Rosh Chodesh Adar | Purim 2023 | Get Happy

Based on this week's parsha. Listen to today's short online Torah class about the holiday of purim. In this Torah Podcast, we discuss the new Hebrew month of Adar. The month with the Jewish month Purim. Like all the others from the Hebrew calendar, the month's name was adopted during the Babylonian captivity. In the Babylonian calendar, the name was Araḫ Addaru or Adār ('Month of Adar'). In leap years, it is preceded by a 30-day intercalary month named Adar Aleph (Hebrew: אדר א׳, Aleph being the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet), also known as "Adar Rishon" (First Adar) or "Adar I." It is then itself called Adar Bet (Hebrew: אדר ב׳, Bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also known as "Adar Sheni" (Second Adar or "Adar II"). Occasionally instead of Adar I and Adar II, "Adar" and "Ve'Adar" are used (Ve means 'and' thus: And-Adar). Adar I and II occur during February–March on the Gregorian calendar.
Purim is a Jewish holiday commemorating the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an official of the Achaemenid Empire who planned to have all of Persia's Jewish subjects killed, as recounted in the Book of Esther (usually dated to the 5th century BCE). These outline some of the fundamental topics discussed in this online Torah class.