Sentence examples for haman from inspiring English sources
It's understandable if Israelis and their leaders react by displacing their anxieties onto an enemy they can put in the familiar role of a Hitler or a Haman, one they can engage with a tool that gives them a familiar feeling of control and power: their air force.I remember the first time I heard an Israeli friend raise anxieties about the Iranian threat.
When word of the planned massacre reached, beloved Jewish queen of Ahasuerus and adopted daughter of Mordecai, she risked her life by going uninvited to the King to suggest a banquet that Haman would attend.
On returning, he found Haman "falling on the couch where was".
The outraged King ordered that Haman be hanged and that Mordecai be named to his position.
At the meal she pleaded for the Jews and accused "this wicked Haman" of plotting the annihilation of her people.
After an exhilarating victory they declared the following day a holiday and (alluding to the lots Haman had cast) named it Purim.
Esther concerns the Jewish wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), who saves the Jews from a massacre plotted by the king's chief minister, Haman.
For the Haman-focused grogger there are now the Queen Esther tambourine, created by the Philadelphia artist Betsy Platkin Teutsch, and the Esther and Vashti flag.
"This is the big problem right now," said Iyad Abu Haman of Shelter Cluster, a U.N. organization.
They will be followed by José Navas in a collaboration with the American cellist Walter Haman, performed by Compagnie Flak from Oct. 4-7.
COMPAGNIE FLAK -- The company presents "Haman/Navas Project," a collaboration between the Venezeuelan-born, Montreal-based choreographer and performer José Navas and the American cellist Walter Haman.
