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Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Satire and Purim go together like peanut-butter and jelly. Purim Torah stands as a unique and vibrant facet of Jewish literary tradition, showcasing the playful side of rabbinic intellect. This genre flourishes particularly during the jubilant Purim celebrations, with writers demonstrating their cleverness by crafting Talmudic-style arguments that whimsically blur the lines between the ludicrous and the profound. Over a decade ago, I was amused by a particularly ingenious piece styled as a fragment of Talmud, comple…

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