The Book of Esther Part 3 - Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

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

okay we're on page 1254 end this the end of the second chapter um in the second chapter AOS gets himself a queen the only Criterion for her uh position is that he finds her beautiful that's all there's no other qualifications he set it up so that the girl will have only that qualification so that she has no independent Authority no independent position and he can get rid of her like that I just don't like you anymore I'll get another one that's what he wanted because he didn't want to repeat of vashi and Esther refuses to identify herself even though the king wants it from her he can't demand it because he's so Charmed by her he doesn't want to take he can't do it just can't do it but he wants it and he creates all sorts of uh strategies to try to get other people to reveal it he releases debts from the provinces and he gives gifts and he gathers virgins into the capital another time to frighten Esther into thinking well since she's not doing what I want her to do I'm going to get a replacement nothing moves her nothing moves her because she does what M tells her to do and said don't Reveal Your who you are so there is this tension built into the situation and that tension will bear fruit um towards the end of the saer okay now comes a completely different incident this is verse 21 the those days when M was sitting at the king's gate big son and sish two of the king's Servants of the Guardians of the

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