Comments on: Poppy pockets http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/ Hobbily blogging Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:25:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JoelNothman.com » My dreidel out of clay http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/comment-page-1/#comment-2324 JoelNothman.com » My dreidel out of clay Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:37:05 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/#comment-2324 [...] Just like Purim, the main symbol of Chanukah has no apparent connection to the festival itself (except for involving lots of fun). Both have Yiddish origins that were tinkered with to create a connection to the festival they became associated with. [...] [...] Just like Purim, the main symbol of Chanukah has no apparent connection to the festival itself (except for involving lots of fun). Both have Yiddish origins that were tinkered with to create a connection to the festival they became associated with. [...]

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Joel Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:52:22 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/#comment-414 An interesting and more academic approach to <a href="http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/02/eliezer-brodt-origins-of-hamentashen-in.html2" rel="nofollow">hamentashen's origins by Eliezer Brodt</a> was posted at the same time as this post, it seems. An interesting and more academic approach to hamentashen’s origins by Eliezer Brodt was posted at the same time as this post, it seems.

]]> By: JoelNothman.com » Purim with the Ghetto Shul http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/comment-page-1/#comment-189 JoelNothman.com » Purim with the Ghetto Shul Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:59:56 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/#comment-189 [...] after everyone had grabbed their bagels, and fruit, and juice, and hamentaschen, we had everyone settle down in their megillah-listening seats, and took our positions backstage. [...] [...] after everyone had grabbed their bagels, and fruit, and juice, and hamentaschen, we had everyone settle down in their megillah-listening seats, and took our positions backstage. [...]

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Joel Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:57:55 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/02/28/poppy-pockets/#comment-149 Some comments of my own: it was Daniel who midrashically ate legumes in the king's palace and Esther was in the same period. (Or is there talmudic source for Esther doing so?) We need to ask how old the custom of eating legumes on Purim is, and whether it included things like seeds. As such, the jumps suggested in the solution from Ohr may be too distant. The most reasonable take may just be an arbitrary (or name-based) association between Purim and Hamentaschen. It is also not clear what Ohr has derived itself and what it has taken from the sources. I do not have its cited sources to hand: Tractate Megilla 13a; Ta'amei HaMinhagim 895; Mishneh Brura 695:12. Some comments of my own: it was Daniel who midrashically ate legumes in the king’s palace and Esther was in the same period. (Or is there talmudic source for Esther doing so?)

We need to ask how old the custom of eating legumes on Purim is, and whether it included things like seeds.

As such, the jumps suggested in the solution from Ohr may be too distant. The most reasonable take may just be an arbitrary (or name-based) association between Purim and Hamentaschen.

It is also not clear what Ohr has derived itself and what it has taken from the sources. I do not have its cited sources to hand: Tractate Megilla 13a; Ta’amei HaMinhagim 895; Mishneh Brura 695:12.

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