A Royal Refusal Redirected

Purim With Rabbi Kaplan

Feb 06 2018 | 00:59:14

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Show Notes

Studying the Megillah Part 19 The Megillah in Depth, Chapter 4, Part 4 This class reveals the behind-the-scenes story about the communications between Queen Esther and her esteemed uncle Mordechai HaTzaddik. Why wasn’t Esther willing to cooperate? How did Mordechai’s razor-sharp rhetoric turn her around? Linguistic layers are peeled away and subtleties are uncovered in one of the most monumental Biblical conversations ever recorded, that contains a priceless life’s message for every one of us today.

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