Thinking About You: Purim

Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10)

Feb 24, 2021 | by Harry Rothenberg

When writing Megillas Esther, what lesson were Mordechai and Esther trying to teach us when they borrowed an obscure phrase from the Torah?

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