The Book of Esther Part 2 - Rabbi Dovid Gottleib

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53 this is the second chapter of melester let's just recap first chapter tells the story of the celebration of what a thinks is the failure of Jewish prophecy that there will be a Redemption after 70 years and he uses it as a means to support the popularity of his being King by showing off his wealth which means he's not in the pockets of donors as some kings were and by supplying everybody with goodies six Monon bash which kind of populism that people appreciate especially the people in shushan the capital where he treats everyone with great not only with great care and great generosity but with a respect that goes beyond what you would expect from a king C celebrating and providing people with with a with a uh means to celebrate everyone is given ex what exactly want he wants what his own preferences are and he in a state of inebriation tries to engineer a confrontation with the queen which will deprive her of her independent Authority she being a descendant of neeter and initially his attempt to pull her down fails she refuses to appear and that's makes it even worse because now she's made a public statement that she's not subject to him and his advisor thean gives him a brilliant way to spin her refusal and to engineer her down Fall by interpreting her action as leading and uprising of the women against the men and rash's response is a way of restoring and maintaining male control which then gets the whole Kingdom the whole empire on his side by which we mean of course all the men that's the whole Kingdom the women don't count and his his decree is one which is specifically aimed at supporting the Mastery of each man in his house Vis A his wife the excuse for it is is is Vash

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1. 0:0153 this is the second chapter of melester let's just recap first chapter tells the story…
2. 4:50the author of the text didn't put that in they left it oral because you could…
3. 9:27probably is yeah you know in ancient English a page was somebody you sent to give…
4. 14:12the advis US who understand his mentality very well they say to him this time enforce…
5. 18:54it's not not not going to I'm not in danger thank you now I just want…
6. 23:35and she was good in his eyes and she called out kindness in him by just…
7. 28:14like she's you know she's she's she's strict and she's doing what she's doing okay and…
8. 32:47made like pay attention to this specific one because did because he had because he had…
9. 37:28Herm right this went on for almost for something like four years then it's Esther's turn…
10. 42:08he finds and he calls out she she calls out kindness in him why did they…

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