Purim is quickly becoming my all time favorite holiday. For those of you who don’t know, this holiday remembers the story of Esther. Esther is about a man named Haman (BOOOO!) – the second in command of Persia – who wants to kill all the Jews. Luckily he was stopped due to Hadassah who becomes Esther – and the king’s wife – and her uncle Mordechai. Now on Purim we dress up in crazy costumes, read through the story, and boo whenever Haman’s name is read (and if you’re me you cheer when Mordechai’s name is read).
The rabbis tell us that we are supposed to get SOOOOO inebriated on Purim that we can no longer tell the difference between Haman and Mordechai. I realized that I’ve never been this drunk (at least not on Purim), so it became our Hillel’s goal this weekend to achieve this mitzvah. Many of us tried. Only two of us succeeded. I was not one of those. 
I tried my best though.
The weekend began with us going to Gail Bretan’s house (Grad student at UNCG and president of Greensboro’s Hadassah) for Shabbat dinner and Kabalat Shabbat. It was really yummy. Then we had an unofficial Purim party with beer and shots. I got drunk enough to buy people shots – that’s a first.
The next morning I managed to get up, get dressed, and drive to Beth David for Shabbat services where I made an aliyah while still drunk.
Then we had lunch – where 2 of my friends showed up, in time for the free lunch. Classy. HAHA! After that we delivered Mishloach Manot - which are boxes of yummy snacks, we are required by Jewish law to deliver them for Purim. After that we went to Brueggers where we were given 2 dozen bagels by this guy who thinks my friend Sam and I are dating. HAHA! Sam is straight, so we definitely aren’t. We’ll take the bagels though.
We took a nap. HA!
Then we got dressed and headed back to Beth David for the reading of the story of Esther, and free beer and chicken wings. WOOT WOOT! It was made more awesome by the fact that Rabbi Havivi was dressed up like the Corn Flakes Rooster! HAHA!
After that we went back to Sam Lichtman’s apartment to play beer pong and circle of death. We got hella drunk. We kept screaming Haman and Mordechai – only 2 of us messed up. HAHA! At one point I screamed “JEWS!” and everyone cheered. Then one of Sam’s roommates screamed “SOUTHERN BAPTISTS!!!” and everyone booed. HAHAHA! I kind of felt bad, but mostly I thought it was funny.
We THEN woke up the next morning (I went to bed at 4:30 and was up by 7 – still drunk) and went BACK to Beth David where we helped run their Purim Carnival. Let’s talk about how there were FIVE of those awesome blow up things!
Then I went home – having had around 5 hours of sleep in 2 days – and crashed. Can you say 15 hours of sleep last night? Yeah, amazing!
