as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from affliction to joy, and from mourning into a good day, to make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions a man to his neighbor and gifts to the poor.
because Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the one distressing all the Jews, who had plotted against the Jews to cause them to perish, and made fall Pur, that is, the lot, to vex them and to destroy them.