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During special Purim services, worshipers listen as the Rabbi reads the biblical story from the scroll of Megilah, and then make noise in an effort to drown out Haman's name when it is read...
...scroll of Megilah tells of the Persian king's decision to allow Haman to kill the Jews, and how the king's wife Esther, who was Jewish, persuaded him to reconsider. Eventually Haman himself was killed...
Royal Polygamy. One section of the scroll provides a detailed prescription for the organization of the monarchy. The king was to have an army of 12,000 men (1,000 from each tribe) and an advisory judicial council (twelve priests, twelve lay leaders and twelve priestly attendants). The scroll also declares that "from his father's house [the king] shall take unto himself a wife . . . and he shall not take upon her another wife, for she alone shall be with him all the days of her life." This is the earliest prohibition of royal polygamy or divorce (Jewish kings...
There are other novelties as well. The Essenes celebrated Yom Kippur, Succoth and Shavuot, but the Temple Scroll contains regulations for festivals that are unknown elsewhere in Judaism: the First Fruits of Wine and of Oil, and the Wood Offering, which lasted for six days...
With his Temple Scroll labors finally behind him, Yadin, 59, is plunging into a new enthusiasm: politics. Not that his career has been confined to the campus. He was head of the operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...