Pur and Purim

Casting Pur

(Est 3:7) In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day;

From Rabbi Ken Spiro

• Haman is an Amalekite, and he harbors a pathological hatred of the Jewish people. ... It is part of the Amalekite ideology that everything is a random occurrence - everything happens by chance. There is no God running the show.

Biblical References

• Proverbs 18: 18
• Proverbs 16: 33
• Lev 16: 7 - 10
• Numbers 26: 53 - 55
• Joshua 18: 8 - 10
• 1 Sam 10: 19 - 21
• Psalm 22: 16 - 18
• Mat 27: 35
• Acts 1: 23 - 26