“To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.”
To confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, even as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed matters concerning the fastings and their cry, demonstrating that Mordecai and Esther had also established practices of fasting and lamentation to accompany the celebration of Purim. These practices of fasting and lamentation ensure that the commemoration includes remembrance of the danger and the deliverance, not merely celebration. The verse shows how comprehensive commemorative practices include both fasting to remember danger and feasting to celebrate deliverance.
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