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"Hamantashen" are filled, 3-cornered pastries traditionally eaten on Purim. The name is a contraction of "Haman," arch-enemy of the Jews, and "tashen," a word derived from the Hebrew for weakened. When Haman was confronted by the spiritual force of the patriarchal triumverate---Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov---as embodied by a Jewish people united in prayer and repentence, he felt his strength waning. The three corners correspond to the three patriarchs. |