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Is Purim the saddest day in judaism?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

On the contrary, Purim is perhaps the most overtly festive and joyous day in Judaism. It celebrates the reversal at the eleventh hour of a king's edict of extermination against the Jews of his realm.

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