The Purim Story

What I am able to speak about is not just about any story, but a story that happened many hundreds of years ago which is now called the Purim Story.

There was a king called King Achashverosh who was not such a nice man. He invited his wife, who was called Queen Vashti to come and dance in an erotic way in front of all of his friends. She refused and because of this refusal, the King decided to chop off her head.

After her head was chopped off, the King no longer had any wife so he thought of the best way to marry someone and decided to have a beauty contest. The woman who won this contest would become his wife.

Queen Esther ended up marrying the King.

The Purim story then goes on to describe how Esther lived previously with her uncle after her parents had died. Her uncle was called Mordechai. Mordechai carried on taking care of Esther even after the married the King and would sit at the city gates to make sure that nothing happened to her.

One day when sitting at the city gates, Mordechai heard two men talking about how they were plotting to kill the king. Mordechai reported this to the King and eventually received a reward where he was led through the whole kingdom led by the head minister who was called Haman while riding the King's horse and wearing his clothes.

Haman was an evil man and wanted to kill all of the Jews as he hated Mordechai who had refused to bow down to him. He therefore got the king to sign a ruling that all of the Jews would be killed. Mordechai learnt of this and let Esther know. She told the King who then tried to cancel the edict.

At the end of the story of Purim, Haman and his sons were hanged. The Jews were saved and all lived (almost) happily ever after.