The Importance of Being Jewish

Esther summons half-atch, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai. Esther isn't aware of the edict; all of Sousa is bewildered but this tells us a little bit about her sad, sheltered life. In the end, it's going to turn out to be providentially awesome that nobody knew that she was Jewish,. But in terms of the reign of Xerxes, it's been about a third of his reign so far.