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The feast of Purim established
Mordecai and Esther established the keeping of the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar as days of feasting and gladness, of sending portions and gifts to the poor, in remembrance of the deliverance (Esther 9:22-28).
📖 Esther 9:23–25
23So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them. 24For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them. 25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.