Purim Torah

Purim Torah

Purim Torah is a term used to describe humorous and satirical writings customarily read on the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Purim Torah can be simple or elaborate, and require no qualifications to write, other than a good sense of humour.

Purim Torah authors, often displaying an amazing grasp of Jewish knowledge, playfully use some of the far-fetched methods of Talmudic logic and Biblical exegesis in order to reach absurd conclusions.

Ashkenazi culture has a variation of the Purim Torah that is acted out, often with elaborate costumes and is referred to as a Purim Shpiel, from the Yiddish for play.

ource

A Talmudic source for Purim Torah may be a passage in the "Bavli" (Hullin 139b) which serves as a model for subsequent "Purim-Torah".

External links

* [http://homepage.mac.com/rabbiyonah/.cv/rabbiyonah/Sites/.Public/Haimish_Lchaim.pdf-zip.zip Haimish L'Chaim: The Laws & Customs of Shidduchim]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/rabbiyonah/.cv/rabbiyonah/Sites/.Public/Driving_halochos_two-5.pdf-zip.zip Merkava Eliezer: Laws & Customs of Driving]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/rabbiyonah/.cv/rabbiyonah/Sites/.Public/Shomer%20Pesayim%20-%20Laws%20of%20Pikuach%20Nefesh.pdf-zip.zip Shomer Petayim: Laws & Customs of Pikuach Nefesh]
* [http://www.radix.net/~jbachman/SPTI/Schlitz-home.htm Schliter Purim Torah]
* [http://www.scheinerman.net/judaism/purim/purimhumor.html Pinah Coladah]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6807/index.html Bernard Shuback's Purim Torah Collection]
* [http://www.thebronsteins.com/archives/000108.html Back row of the Beis]
* [http://www.burton25a.f9.co.uk/purim/ Mishan Choggah]
* [http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/rfcj/HUMOR/Ritual_slaughter_of_the_latke.html Ritual Slaughter of the Latke]

uggested reading

*I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature, New York 1907.


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