Cuando Aman semborracho y salio afuera a los hijos demando que perasha era dijiron – ve-yera , el Dio se apiade y a Aman lo mata
When Haman got drunk
and went outside,
he asked the sons,
“What parasha is it?”
They said, “Vayera!” —
may God take pity,
and may Haman be slain.
This popular verse, is a stanza taken from the copla about the fall of Haman. Its success is perhaps due to the opportunity to ridicule the wicked Haman, who, due to being drunk, (as is the tradition of Purim), when asked by the children which part of the Pentateuch (which parashah) is being read that week, does not know the answer. The children misinform him and tell hm that the Parash is "va-era" - the section of Genesis where Abraham has a covenant with God, apparently to remind him that he was not able to defeat the Jewish people because of God's promise to Abraham.
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