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Yosef and Megillat Esther/5
<h1>Yosef and Megillat Esther</h1> ...Rabbah7-7" book="Esther Rabbah" ref="7,7" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Esther Rabbah 7:7">

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Esther's Religious Identity/2
<h1>Esther's Religious Identity</h1> <p>The vast majority of commentators assume that Esther was a religiously observant Jew.  They claim, that, though not explici

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Achashverosh's Shock and Fury/1
...a/21Esther/7/Esther's Second Banquet/Steen.jpg"/></a><figcaption>(<a href="Esther's Second Banquet in Art" data-aht="page">Click for this topic in art</a>)</ ...n">About R. Yitzchak Arama</a></multilink> who raises the possibility that Esther's religion was already known to the king before the party.</fn> and exposin

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Mordechai's Religious Identity/2
...ile serving in a position of political power and also tried to ensure that Esther and the entire nation acted similarly. As such, the Megillah is the story o ..., it was Esther, rather than Mordechai, who saved the nation, and Megillat Esther tells the tale of life in exile without proper leadership and of how Hashem

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Why Conceal Esther's Nationality/2
<h1>Why Conceal Esther's Nationality?</h1> ...f the spectrum, the Lekach Tov and Ralbag suggest altruistic motives. Esther hoped the secret would aid her in becoming queen so that she would be bette

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Eliyahu's Death/1/en
..."source">34:8</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>.</fn>  He is said to come to every circumcision,<fn>Se

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Commentators:Character Consolidation/1
...="source">1:3</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink></li> ...1</a><a href="Shir HaShirim Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shir HaShirim Rabbah</a></multilink></li>

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Yosef and Megillat Esther/0
<h1>Yosef and Megillat Esther</h1> ...y numerous linguistic similarities, suggesting that the author of Megillat Esther was intentionally inviting the reader to compare the two sagas.

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Esther's Relations with Achashverosh/2
<h1>Esther's Relations with Achashverosh</h1> ...0; Finally, an additional approach argues that in the era or Mordechai and Esther, a blanket prohibition of intermarriage was not yet in existence.</p></div>

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Achashverosh's Shock and Fury/2
...ommentators struggle to understand both how Achashverosh did not know that Esther was referring to Haman's plan and why he became so furious.  In search ...60;Intervening events had led him to be suspicious of Haman, and he seized Esther's plight as an opportunity to quickly dispose of Haman.  This position

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Mordechai's Refusal to Bow/2
...The Bavli maintains that Haman had turned himself into a god, while Esther Rabbah suggests that he wore an idol on his garments.  Both of these position ...-aht="source">Hoil Moshe</a><a href="HoilMosheEsther3-2" data-aht="source">Esther 3:2</a><a href="R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Hoil Moshe)" data-aht="parshan

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Who Sold Yosef/1/en
...t="source">7:25</a><a href="Esther Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Esther Rabbah</a></multilink> that Haman's decree was a punishment for this sin, and <mul

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Yosef/0
...ource">84:7</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>,<multilink><a href="RashiBereshit37-2" data-aht="source"> R ...ource">84:8</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaVayeshev2" data-aht="source">T

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Warning Bells – "וְנִשְׁמַע קוֹלוֹ... וְלֹא יָמוּת"/2
...e on what served to prevent death from occurring in the sanctuary. Vayikra Rabbah and Rashi view the final words of the verse ("וְלֹא יָמוּת") as ...>21:8 (Vilna)</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>,

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Who was Enslaved in Egypt/2
...t="source">1:11</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="TanchumaVayetze9" data-aht="source">Ta ...t="source">5:16</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RashiShemot1-11-13" data-aht="source">

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Avraham's Aliyah/2
...instruct him to head to Canaan.  A third approach taken by Seder Olam Rabbah suggests that Avraham actually made multiple trips to Canaan.  He trav ...the tradition in <a href="BereshitRabbah38-13" data-aht="source">Bereshit Rabbah</a> which speaks of Avraham being thrown into a fiery furnace by Nimrod.&#1

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Commentators:R. Moshe Alshikh/0
...Nechumim, Venice, 1601.</fn> Kohelet,<fn>Devarim Tovim, Venice, 1601.</fn> Esther,<fn>Masat Moshe, Venice, 1601.</fn> Daniel,<fn>Chavatzelet Hasharon, publis ...incorporated into R. Moshe's Torah commentary.</fn> commentary to Midrash Rabbah,<fn>R. Moshe incorporated some material from this commentary into his Torah

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Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 39-40/0
...ratives from the  of the Garden of Eden to the story of Mordechai and Esther, applying their findings to the priestly vestments.  </p> .../a>, by R. Yehudah Kerbel, for comparison of the clothing Mordechai wears (Esther 8:12) with the priestly garments, and the symbolism of each.  This par

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Literary:Indicators of Achronology/0
..."source">1:10</a><a href="Devarim Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Devarim Rabbah</a></multilink> claims that Moshe is speaking of the appointment of officer ...orah, all in Sefer Bereshit, the rest are divided between Yehoshua, Kings, Esther, Ezra and Chronicles. [For the specific verses, see the previous note.]</fn

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Wanted: A Wife for Yitzchak/2/en
..., and see Ramban 24:8 who points out that Rashi there contradicts Bereshit Rabbah.</fn> <multilink><a href="RashbamBereshit24-1" data-aht="source">Rashbam</a ...ly</b> – Rashbam defines "מוֹלַדְתִּי" as family.<fn>Cf. Bereshit 43:7 and Esther 2:10, 8:6, and see <a href="$">"מוֹלֶדֶת"</a>.</fn> Thus, Avraham e

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