Hilchos Purim – 19 / The Purim Feast (e)

1. Purim is celebrated in some location on the fourteenth of Adar and in others on the fifteenth of Adar. However, a small feast and rejoicing should be celebrated in all locations on both days (Shulchan Aruch 695).

2. Some say that one should eat [food made of] seeds on Purim in commemoration of the seeds that Daniel and his friends ate in Babylon when they were in Nevuchadnezzar’s palace to avoid eating non-kosher food. Queen Esther, as well, ate seeds when she was taken to the palace of Achashveirosh (ibid.).