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- “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...
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This painting is sometimes listed as ‘Vashti’, the queen who refused to parade before her drunken husband’s friends. She was banished from the King’s presence forever, and became a forgotten woman, lodged in a back room of the royal harem. Vashti was not, like Esther, plucked from obscurity.
Sep 10, 2021 · A young Jewish woman, Esther, outshined all the rest. “So he [the king] set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti” ( Esther 2:17 ). Soon after Esther was crowned, an upheaval in the kingdom began. Haman, the king’s right-hand man, hated the Jewish people. No one knew Esther was Jewish.
Mar 15, 2013 · Jewish Journal Staff. March 15, 2013. When it comes to the story of Purim, Queen Esther has received lots of attention. All the little girls want to play her in the Purim spiel. She’s brave,...
The painting illustrates the banquet organized by Queen Vashti for the women of the palace in Susa. Kneeling before her are the eunuchs sent by her husband Ahasuerus, king of Persia to invite the queen to present herself at his banquet.
Queen Vashti: Mystery Woman of the Megillah. SE. By Sefaria Education. Esther Rabbah: Behind the Scenes with the Stars of the Megillah.
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