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The Book of Esther
A brief cartoon on Esther:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPgxCeg0ow
Esther 1
Esther 2
Esther 3
Esther 4
Esther 5
Esther 6
Esther 7
Esther 8
Esther 9
Feel free to share any thoughts on the Book of Esther. Regarding the part where Vashti is called for I grew up thinking that the king just asked her to come out and show off, which he did. However, I have since learned that what he was really asking was that she present herself wearing ONLY her crown. I can totally understand why she refused.
The midrash tells us that Ahasuerus acted improperly when he tried to force Vashti to obey him and when he issued the decree that every man should be lord in his own home (Est. 1:22). A woman acts as she wishes; her husband cannot force his will upon her (Est. Rabbah 4:12). When Ahasuerus became sober, he regretted what he had done (Est. Rabbah 5:2).
A brief cartoon on Esther:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPgxCeg0ow
Esther 1
Esther 2
Esther 3
Esther 4
Esther 5
Esther 6
Esther 7
Esther 8
Esther 9
Purim Established
20 Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, 21 to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar 22 as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot for their ruin and destruction. 25 But when the plot came to the kings attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles. 26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them, 27 the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed. 28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jewsnor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.
29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. 30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of Xerxes kingdomwords of goodwill and assurance 31 to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation. 32 Esthers decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and it was written down in the records.
Purim is on the Jewish date Adar 14 which begins at sundown March 5. On the Jewish calendar it shows the Eve of Purim at sundown March 4 with Purim ending at sundown March 7.20 Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, 21 to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar 22 as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot for their ruin and destruction. 25 But when the plot came to the kings attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles. 26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them, 27 the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed. 28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jewsnor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.
29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. 30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of Xerxes kingdomwords of goodwill and assurance 31 to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation. 32 Esthers decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and it was written down in the records.
Feel free to share any thoughts on the Book of Esther. Regarding the part where Vashti is called for I grew up thinking that the king just asked her to come out and show off, which he did. However, I have since learned that what he was really asking was that she present herself wearing ONLY her crown. I can totally understand why she refused.
The midrash tells us that Ahasuerus acted improperly when he tried to force Vashti to obey him and when he issued the decree that every man should be lord in his own home (Est. 1:22). A woman acts as she wishes; her husband cannot force his will upon her (Est. Rabbah 4:12). When Ahasuerus became sober, he regretted what he had done (Est. Rabbah 5:2).
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