Megillat Esther – Part 1

Lesson summary AI-generated

• The first Megillat Esther lesson, picking up after a timeline that placed the story in Jewish and world history.
• Background about the period: only a small number of Jews returned to Israel when they could, and the Rebbe’s point that the Megillah was written by Esther and Mordechai.
• The story of Queen Vashti is studied through the commentaries: how she answers the king as a queen before she is Vashti, and Rashi’s different view from the Malbim.
• Esther did not reveal her nationality because Mordechai told her not to, and the lesson explains Rashi’s understanding of why.

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