Persian Horse-men/couriers
I know it's been Two weeks since we celebrated Purim, but I was searching through my Iranian stamps for some stamps my new friend in Florida wanted, and came across this beautiful stamp of a Sassanian Courier (that's what the Catalogue says). I suspect that this is somewhat related to the Capital of King Xeroxes' which was called Shushan in the Hebrew Scripture of the Book of Esther. It was issued in 1970 to celebrate the 2,500 Anniversary of the Persian Empire, which is actually pretty accurate, corresponding to what we now know as the miracle of Purim. According to the Book of Esther, there were Three times that the official scribes were called to write letters in all 127 languages of the people who lived in the different countries & provinces of the Persian Empire. The first was concerning the decree that every man should be the "man of the house", which sounds absolutely ridiculous to me, and many of our Sages have made different comments & suggestion...