BD Feasts The Feast of Purim (called Mordecai?אשs Day, 2 Macc. 15: 36) was instit uted by Mordecai and confirmed by Esther, to commemorate the overthrow o f Haman and the failure of his plots against the Jews?אש (Esth. 9: 20-32 ). The name Purim (=lots) w