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Mar 17, 2019 · The faithfulness of the Jewish people to Judaism impressed Agur and he began to study Judaism. A year later, he became Jewish and the following year he met Queen Vashti and they fell in love and ...
Mar 15, 2013 · In the Book of Esther, Vashti is a brave woman who risked her life for her beliefs. She was a woman who did pick her battles — and this was not a small matter of a single party. By refusing the ...
- Who Was Vashti in The Bible?
- What Do We Know About her?
- Why Was She Banished from The Kingdom?
- Why Is Vashti Important in Esther’s Story?
The book of Esther gives us some insight into the life of Vashti. We do not learn many specific details about Vashti. However, Scripture tells us that Vashti was married to King Ahasuerus (or Xerxes). The king would have chosen a beautiful woman for his wife. The outward appearance of his queen would have been impressive to his friends and enemies....
On the seventh day of the banquet given by the king, he commanded his eunuchs to bring Queen Vashti to the gathering of men. The king wanted to show off her extraordinary beauty (Esther 1:11NIV). Some historians suggest that perhaps the king wanted her to appear without clothing, only wearing the royal crown. Can you imagine the sounds of the gathe...
Vashti was banished from the kingdom because of her bold choice to disobey her husband. Women were expected to follow the decisions of their husbands and not complain. This was a way of life. When Vashti woke the morning of the banquet, she probably had no idea what the day would bring. Vashti may have followed a daily routine and then prepared for...
Without the bold and courageous decision of Vashti choosing not to be presented as an object of lust, Esther would not have become queen and taken her place in history. Esther was a young orphan who became the Persian queen. Esther and her cousin Mordecai helped rescue the Jews of the Persian Empire from Haman the Agagite’s evil plot. Haman had int...
Megillat Esther has been understood as a fantasy of Jewish power written in a time of Jewish powerlessness. But the megillah actually tells two parallel stories. The primary story is about how Jews in the Diaspora became victims to the whims of power, and then, in the “happy” conclusion, the victors. The secondary story, a story about women ...
Mar 23, 2016 · After all, to many women, Vashti was a symbol of the women excluded from traditionally male customs in Judaism. Today, that feminist perspective is a big part of the way Klein tells the story to ...
Mar 4, 2015 · The set-up for the Purim story is a familiar one: Queen Vashti’s expulsion from the palace that creates the demand for a new queen and ultimately puts Esther in a place to be able to save the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of the king’s evil adviser, Haman. But that’s not why Vashti is a hero. It’s the details of the set ...
Feb 27, 2018 · It so happens that the Book of Esther begins with the story of a woman who “says no,” and it demonstrates that the consequences of “saying no” can be severe: Queen Vashti lost the ...
