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She is the model of docility, an exact antidote to Vashti. Esther understands very well her role as Ahasuerus’s queen. When Mordechai commands her to appear before the king and intercede on behalf of the Jews, Esther responds that everyone knows that those who appear before the king unbidden are condemned to die.
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Mar 15, 2013 · She’s brave, beautiful, loving and heroic: the quintessential female biblical role model. But what about the other brave, role model Queen of Persia? What about Vashti? Vashti is a...
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Mar 4, 2015 · Vashti served as a role model for the entirety of the female population of the kingdom… and for girls today looking for strong female role models. Two thousand years later, women’s rights advocate and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe called Vashti’s radical refusal the “first stand for women’s rights.”.
Mar 23, 2023 · For example, theologian Laverne McCain Gill describes Vashti as a model of rebellion against the patriarchy, and Old Testament scholar Alice Laufey argues that Vashti appeals to modern...
- “It Happened in The Days of Ahasuerus”
- Vashti in Modern Literature
- Conclusion
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...
Feb 27, 2018 · To be fair, I had a bit of prior experience with the idea of Vashti as a role model. Not long ago, my then-4-year-old niece refused to be Esther in the nursery school Purim play, simply because ...
A Study of Vashti vs. Esther. By Mendel Kalmenson. " Vashti was a biblical feminist; she wouldn't dance for the King." That's a line from the chorus of a new-age Purim song. A new tradition being peddled is the "Vashti flag." According to one writer, waving Vashti flags (complete with bells attached) serves to make the holiday "an opportunity ...
