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Jul 15, 2023 · When Queen Vashti receives a summons from the king, will she obey him or retain her dignity no matter the cost?
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Uncover the significance of Vashti's departure, paving the way for the rise of another queen, Esther, in a divine plan subtly woven into the Book of Esther. The description touches on the...
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Continuing on the series on ‘Women in the Bible’, I am happy to share with you my reflections on Queen Vashti, another woman Biblical character. We live in a...
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May 9, 2017 · Was Queen Vashti, King Xerxes’ ex-wife, as shallow and stubborn as we assume? I want you to ponder and puzzle with me. Queen Vashti’s gripping story is told in twelve short verses, Esther 1:8-20. Was this sexy gal a diva, or a heroine? And why should we care? We know she was one gutsy lady.
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- “It Happened in The Days of Ahasuerus”
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The megillah opens with a display of rudeness: Why, the rabbis wonder, does the text fail to note the king’s title? Shouldn’t it have read: “It happened in the days of KingAhasuerus”? The reason, the rabbis infer, is because, technically, it was true. Ahasuerus was not yet king — he was merely angling to become the monarch of a newly-formed empire....
Like ancient commentaries, modern versions are rife with opportunities for reimagining Vashti. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible cheers, “[Vashti] added new glory to [her] day and generation … by her disobedience; for resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” In her short story Vashti and the Angel Gabriel, Rabbi Jill Hammer imagines the...
The Talmud (Chagigah 3b) describes a lesson taught by Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria in the great yeshivah at Yavneh. “Make your ears like a funnel,” he urged his students, “praise those who deem the matter pure, and those who reject it as impure. Acquire for yourself an understanding heart to listen both to those who validate and those who invalidate.” R...
Mar 23, 2016 · About 20 years later, the Woman’s Bible commentary put together by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton called Vashti “a sublime representative of self-centred womanhood” who rises “to the heights...
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Queen Vashti’s “No” is a prophetic “Fuck You” to the king’s and the Empire’s entitlement to women’s bodies. She exposes injustice and refuses exploitation, while strategically responding with courage and love for her people.
