• <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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  • <h1>Esther's Religious Identity</h1> <p>The vast majority of commentators assume that Esther was a religiously observant Jew.&#160; They claim, that, though not explici
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <h1>Why Conceal Esther's Nationality?</h1> ...f the spectrum,&#160;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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  • ...="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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  • ..."source">34:8</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>.</fn>&#160; He is said to come to every circumcision,<fn>Se
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  • <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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  • <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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  • ...ommentators struggle to understand both how Achashverosh did not know that Esther was referring to Haman's plan and why he became so furious.&#160; 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.&#160; This position
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  • ...The Bavli maintains that Haman had turned himself into a god, while Esther Rabbah suggests that he wore an idol on his garments.&#160; 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...instruct him to head to Canaan.&#160; A third approach taken by Seder Olam Rabbah suggests that Avraham actually made multiple trips to Canaan. &#160;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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  • ...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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  • ...ratives from the&#160; of the Garden of Eden to the story of Mordechai and Esther, applying their findings to the priestly vestments. &#160;</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.&#160; This par
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  • ..."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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  • ..., 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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  • ...rson are familiar not because they have been studied in Tanchuma, Bereshit Rabbah or any other primary source, but via Rashi's commentary.</fn> Rashi's super ...urce">84:19</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink> on <a href="Bereshit24-25-26" data-aht="source">Bereshit 24
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  • ...ource">26:5</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbah</a></multilink>, R. Saadia, <multilink><a href="RashiBereshit6-2" data-aht= ...the language of "וַיִּקְחוּ".&#160; Rashi, following R. Yudin in Bereshit Rabbah, sees in the defective spelling of "טֹבֹת" a hint that the judges woul
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  • <h1>Esther's Religious Identity</h1> ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1">
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  • ...ah Rabbah 1:41, Tanchuma Emor 3, Midrash Shemuel 24:8, and compare Vayikra Rabbah 26:8) asserts that any time the word "וַיֹּאמֶר" appears twice one ...Janach, Sefer HaRikmah Gate 26.</fn> <a href="Esther7-5" data-aht="source">Esther 7:5</a>,<fn>See <multilink><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBereshit30-28" data-aht
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  • ..."source">11:5</a><a href="Vayikra Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PsJBereshit15-13" data-aht="source">Ta ...abbah" data-aht="parshan">About Vayikra Rabbah</a></multilink>,<fn>Vayikra Rabbah, Tanchuma, and Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer all note that "&#8207;יָדֹעַ ת
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  • ...a Persian loan word, first appearing as an independent word in the Book of Esther, where it means law or decree. The term appears only once earlier in Tanakh ...urce">9</a><a href="Seder Olam Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Seder Olam Rabbah</a></multilink> explains that here, too, the verse refers to Rosh Chodesh.<
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  • ...a full 430 years of slavery. In contrast, the parallel account in Bereshit Rabbah 61:7 speaks of 210 years. For more see <a href="Reparations and Despoiling ...dividuals. The Hoil Moshe also cites the example of Mordechai's lineage in Esther 2:8, and the comments of the Talmud Bavli Megillah 12b.</fn></point>
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  • ...of "זֶה הַדָּבָר" stands in contrast to the Midrashic approach of Bereshit Rabbah cited by Rashi.<fn>A small group of Rashi manuscripts contain an interpolat ..., its content matches R"Y Kara's interpretations in both Vayikra 26:43 and Esther 7:5 (MS Hamburg 32).</fn></li>
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  • ...xmlid="Esther3-1-6" book="English Esther" ref="3,1,6" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/3.1$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 3:1-6</h3>
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  • ...<a href="BereshitRabbah26-5" data-aht="source">כ״ו:ה׳</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">אודות בראשית רבה</a></multilink>, רס"ג ...the language of "וַיִּקְחוּ".&#160; Rashi, following R. Yudin in Bereshit Rabbah, sees in the defective spelling of "טֹבֹת" a hint that the judges woul
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  • ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:5-7</h3>
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  • ...לְמַהֵר לְשַׁלְּחָם מִן הָאָרֶץ כִּי אָמְרוּ כֻּלָּנוּ מֵתִים"). Also see Esther 9:3 for a parallel case in which where fear is the explicit motivation.</fn ...nk> who identify the gold and silver objects as drinking vessels (see also Esther 1:7), and see the footnote above for the interpretation that they were idol
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  • ...xmlid="Esther2-5-7" book="English Esther" ref="2,5,7" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.5$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:5-7</h3>
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  • ...supported by Achashverosh's tax in <a href="Esther10-1" data-aht="source">Esther 10:1</a>.</fn> understand that this refers to a labor tax.<fn>This seems to ...t="source">5:16</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>, suggests that the Tribe of Levi was exempt from the enslav
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  • ...o Esther,<fn>In his introduction to the edition of the GRA’s commentary to Esther published in Jerusalem 1992, C.D. Nobel attributes the work to a student an ...adot of the Talmud,<fn>Including a booklet of commentary on the Aggadot of Rabbah Bar Bar Chanah. See Tzuriel, Otzerot: 34.</fn> Seder Olam, the Minor Tracta
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  • ...6</a><a href="Shir HaShirim Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shir HaShirim Rabbah</a></multilink>,&#160;<multilink><a href="SederEliyahuZuta8" data-aht="sour ...hat is it that you would like".<i><fn>It parallels Achashverosh's words to Esther, "מַה לָּךְ אֶסְתֵּר," which are explained in the continuat
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  • ..."...<b>וַיְחִי</b> פלוני... וַיְחִי פלוני".&#160; According to Seder Olam Rabbah, it was in Peleg's time period that the story of the Towel of Bavel and dis ...commentators suggest that either one or both verbs express the future, for Esther is speaking of the possibility that she might die, not that she has already
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  • ...lid="Esther3-8-15" book="English Esther" ref="3,8,15" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/3.8$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 3:8-15</h3>
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  • ...20" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="20" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 20"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Seder Olam Rabbah 20</h3>
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  • <h1>Esther's Relations with Achashverosh</h1> ...lid="Esther2-7-20" book="English Esther" ref="2,7,20" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.7$$e1">
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  • ..." (a rampart or bulwark).&#160;Ibn Ezra, thus, points out that in Megillat Esther, a distinction should be made between "שׁוּשַׁן" or "הָעִיר � <li><b>בִּיתַן</b> – This word appears only in the Book of Esther, always in the context of the garden. It appears to relate to the word "ב�
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  • ...autiful women sought? You must say it was the generation of Ahasuerus</b> (Esther, chapter 2). The Gemara asks: <b>But</b> why not <b>say</b> it was <b>in th <source book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="49,9" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 49:9" xmlid="BereshitRabbah49-9">
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  • ...end from her, and in reward for the modesty shown by Saul, he merited that Esther should descend from him.</b> <br/>The Gemara explains: <b>What was the mode <source book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="71,6" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 71:6" xmlid="BereshitRabbah71-6">
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  • ...20" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="20" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 20"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Seder Olam Rabbah 20</h3>
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  • ...42-2" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="42,2" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 42:2"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Bereshit Rabbah 42:2</h3>
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  • ...lations rather than one's merits, as proven by the very different fates of Rabbah and R. Chisda despite their both being Torah giants.</fn>&#160; In such a w ...see <a href="Yosef and Megillat Esther" data-aht="page">Yosef and Megillat Esther</a>), in which Hashem is repeatedly mentioned and the character's themselve
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  • ...84-8" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="84,8" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 84:8"> <h3 xml:lang="en">Bereshit Rabbah 84:8</h3>
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  • ...e xmlid="Esther2-10" book="English Esther" ref="2,10" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.10$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:10</h3>
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  • <source book="Vayikra Rabbah" ref="1,12,13" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Vayikra Rabbah 1:12-13" xmlid="VayikraRabbah1-12-13"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Vayikra Rabbah 1:12-13</h3>
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  • ...40-1" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="40,1" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 40:1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Bereshit Rabbah 40:1</h3>
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  • ...and all of Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. ...in my tranquility</b> Haman said this. <b>To You, O Lord, I would call</b> Esther said this etc. until "be my helper." <b>You turned my lament into dancing f
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  • ...ish Esther" data-ref="7,8" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Esther/7.8$$e1">Esther 7:8</a>)</span>, indicating that the verb fallen has sexual connotations. < ..."source" data-book="Esther" data-ref="7,8" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Esther/7.8">אסתר ז׳:ח׳</a>}</span> והנה המן נופל על המטה
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  • ...17" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="17" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 17"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Seder Olam Rabbah 17</h3>
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  • ...e xmlid="Esther10-1" book="English Esther" ref="10,1" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/10.1$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 10:1</h3>
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  • ...ah1" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="1" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Seder Olam Rabbah 1</h3>
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  • ...e xmlid="Esther10-1" book="English Esther" ref="10,1" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/10.1$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 10:1</h3>
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  • ...ly suspend such laws at His discretion. <br/>This is explained in Bereshit Rabbah 5,5 where Rabbi Yochanan (or Yonathan) is quoted as saying that God entered ...reshit Rabbah" data-ref="85" data-mg-type="Library" data-url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 85">בראשית רבה פ״ה</a>)</span>: אמר רבי יונתן תנא
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  • ...38-7" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="38,7" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 38:7"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Bereshit Rabbah 38:7</h3>
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  • ...d</b> the Divine Spirit <b>responded:</b> For My own sake (see the book of Esther). <br/><b>And the Rabbis say</b> that <i>hallel</i> was not established for ...bbah18-5" book="Shemot Rabbah" ref="18,5" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Shemot Rabbah 18:5">
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  • ...-7" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="98,7,8" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 98:7-8"> <h3 xml:lang="en">Bereshit Rabbah 98:7-8</h3>
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  • ...-13" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="38,13" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 38:13"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Bereshit Rabbah 38:13</h3>
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  • ...rce xmlid="Esther2-1" book="English Esther" ref="2,1" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/2.1$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 2:1</h3>
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  • ...40-6" book="Bereshit Rabbah" ref="40,6" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bereshit Rabbah 40:6"> <h3 xml:lang="en">Bereshit Rabbah 40:6</h3>
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  • ...P/Midrash Tehillim/Tehillim/19.17">Midrash Tehillim 19:17</a></span>, Lev. Rabbah 5:8): To what can David be compared? To a Cuthite who goes from door to doo ...h is) superior (רב)</b> – as "to every superior person (רב) of his house" (Esther i. 8) – because it is great in estimation and distinction. Or the interpr
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  • ...rce xmlid="Esther7-5" book="English Esther" ref="7,5" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Esther/7.5$$e1"> <h3 xml:lang="EN">Esther 7:5</h3>
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  • ...t of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its b ...im, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.</text>
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  • ...ish Esther" data-ref="4,2" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Esther/4.2$$e1">Esther 4:2</a>)</span>. <b>This matter</b> can be inferred <b><i>a fortiori</i>: J ...2-17" book="Bemidbar Rabbah" ref="2,17" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Bemidbar Rabbah 2:17">
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  • ...source" data-book="Esther" data-ref="2,22" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Esther/2.22">אסתר ב':כ"ב</a>)</span></text> ...ah13-1" book="Vayikra Rabbah" ref="13,1" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Vayikra Rabbah 13:1">
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  • ...ter my name.' (29) And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. (30) And he took the crown of Malcam f ...ah1" book="Seder Olam Rabbah" ref="1" mgtype="Library" url="?r1=Seder Olam Rabbah 1">
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