as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy an
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and Y
They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman com
All the believers were together and had everything in common.
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD b
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing
But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.