Purim, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Anti Semitism.
(Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 5a). R. Yehuda Hanasi maintained excellent relations with the Roman ruler Antoninus. In his day, the Jewish nation achieved a level of autonomy, as the Gaon Rabbi Elijah of Vilna writes: “For in his days, Israel was relieved of suffering” (commentary on Shulchan Arukh,