March 10, 2009: Snowy Purim
It’s been snowing intensely all day. My first thought when I woke up to it was, “Snow? On Purim?” And then the idea grew on me. Blizzardy Purim is not what I’m used to. And it’s certainly not what they have in Israel, or perhaps more relevantly, Persia. But looking at it, I think that changing the landscape so that it seems different than normal is very much in the spirit of Purim— a costume for Stockholm, if you will.
Sometimes Swedish geography makes me think Judaism was never meant to be practiced this far north (like long, lonely, summer shabboses ending at midnight). But snow for Purim? I could get used to it.
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