The Secret Life of Queen Esther - Women's Purim Class

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the yeshiva dotnet names and Judaism entire are always significant the Gomorrah tells us a masochist humor a mayor dyad Bhishma Ramaiya would even tune in and focus on the name of a person but generally names are considered meaningful and insightful the Megillah that is read on Purim is called enmesh niacin and gomorrah among the Hazael and in the works of halacha until today we call it McGillis Esther the scroll of Esther that name though requires explanation obviously Esther is one of the key characters in the entire story but nonetheless as the Megillah puts it as Mimer Mordecai Esther I saw Esther followed the instructions of Martha hi when the Megillah introduces first the Jewish angle into the story of a hash wash it starts off issue who di abou shushanna bearish my Martha hi there was a Jewish man a yahoodi who lived in shushanna beer in the capital of the Persian Empire which my Martha hi Ben Yair and shimmy been quiche is she Minnie and then the Megillah continues saying how Martha hi nurtured and took Esther into his home since she was an orphan she had no father she had no mother and therefore when they took Esther to the palace Mordecai felt personal responsibility for her bacala in VO him everyday Marduk I walked in the courtyard of the King to find out la das Aslam Esther to inquire on the welfare of Esther and generally as the Megillah describes Esther remained loyal to the instructions the guidance the mentorship of Mordecai both before this event before she was taken as a queen to the Persian king

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