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Purim: Esther’s Hidden Identity

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

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The Gamara and the Suga in Ihargweil-Yavar

The Gamara says that Esther was Befar-Hesia, so why didn't she give up her life? Because how could she be with the king and have relations with the king if everybody knew that she's Jewish? And this is another loose end in the McGillist story in the According to the Fazal. Or let me put it this way, Mordechai, who is a smart cookie, arranged matters by telling your don't say who you are. He said: "That way everyone will speculate about you" That's from a Lumdisha perspective, which is nothing with ideology, modern words, anything like that.

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