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Question: Is there any historical evidence of the story of Purim and Queen Esther?
Answer: In the high mountains of Iran is a city called Hamadan. Notice that if you remove a “da” from Hamadan, you get “Haman.” I don’t know when Hamadan was renamed, but at one time it was called “Shushan,” and that is where the Queen Esther story takes place.
There is a tomb for Queen Esther, and that tomb was built right in the middle of what is now known as Hamadan.
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Eliahu Levenson
