<p class="bodytext">So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

And after they had spoken to him day after day<n id="1" /> without his paying any attention to them, they informed Haman to see whether this attitude on Mordecai&#8217;s part would be permitted.<n id="2" /> Furthermore, he had disclosed to them that he was a Jew.<n id="3" />p>

For this reason these days are known as <i>Purimi>, after the name of <i>puri>.