We associated two very different stories to Purim, the story of the Megillah of Esther, and the story of the Aramaic "Megillah" of Ezra 7. Both are "stories" of how the king of Paras treated the Jews.
And both stories are about the beginning of the world of Torah. There seems to be another connection between the two stories.
The first story is one of crisis, unity, and survival.
The second story features implicitly the self-aggrandizement of the Kohanim, and the associated pious fraud by the redactor. Strikingly, HaShem is not mentioned in the Megillah of Esther. He hides Himself in the plot of the story. The second Megillah is filled with references to G-d.
The connection is the following. The Truth, humble and straight, is hidden by a layer of lies, self-aggrandizement and pious fraud. The message of Purim is that the Truth is present, in the plot of reality as in the Torah, to who can look through the obfuscating layer. On Purim, look for the Truth and you will find. Purim Sameach!
