Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day and a day of sending portions one to another, demonstrating that the Jews in the villages and unwalled towns established the fourteenth day of Adar as the date for celebrating their deliverance. The custom of sending portions to one another suggests a practice of sharing in the celebration and of binding the community together through acts of mutual generosity. The verse shows how the commemoration of deliverance becomes embedded in the social fabric through practices of sharing and communal celebration.

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