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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2013-02-08 10:20 pm

Jewish-culture query

If 'blotting out the name of Haman' is taken seriously enough to involve
noisemakers at the synagogue for when his name comes up in the story, how
come hamantaschen are called hamantaschen? It's got the offending name
right there in it.
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[personal profile] ghoti 2013-02-09 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Probably the same reason why one doesn't boo his name when learning about Purim in school. (Insofar as the custom is to do it while the megillah (Scroll of Esther) is being read.)
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Hmm...

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2013-02-09 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Has anyone tried substituting "Voldemort" yet? For another instance of someone not to be named.

[identity profile] dawn-bat.livejournal.com 2013-02-09 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it isn't taken all that seriously. At all the megillah readings I've been to, the noisemakers tend to go into action only after the reader is *done* saying Haman. Probably it started as an excuse to be rowdy while drunk.
Also, you will notice that the hamantashen get eaten. That's blotted out, right? :)