The Very Deep & Intricate Connection Between The Holidays of Purim & Pesach: What is Purim but an important spiritual threshold to be crossed on the way to the freedom of Pesach? Why else would the rabbis of the Talmud insist that it is more important to juxtapose the celebration of the redemption of Purim with the celebration of the redemption of Pesach, though it means delaying an important mitzvah for thirty whole days? However, the starting point to making sense of this is knowing that, when it comes Purim, nothing is as it seems to be. This is the pocketbook version of the original spiral-bound book, except edited and updated.