Esther’s Bizarre Response

Purim With Rabbi Kaplan

Feb 06 2018 | 00:59:55

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Show Notes

Studying the Megillah Part 17 The Megillah in Depth, Chapter 4, Part 2 Discover what happened behind the scenes as the Queen of Persia, (a clandestine Jewess originally called Hadassah, who now goes by the name Esther) goes into a bizarre “toxic shock” after hearing about Mordechai’s – the Chief Rabbi – seeming nervous breakdown. Discover the details of her shocking response to the “public rabbinic disrobement” that caused a huge kerfuffle amidst the Jewish population.

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