Queen Vashti is the woman of today, the woman we all admire, the woman we want to be. She had it all, success, status, admiration and beauty. She also knew the social norms of her time and she kept to them with the greatest integrity. It is said that she had her own...
If you read her story, Esther is presented as hesitant, as hiding her faith and her cultural identity for fear of personal backlash, and then as a self-centred coward.She pretended not to have a Jewish faith-culture because she would be disadvantaged in Babylon and...
Mordecai came with history. He was a Jew, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, so you couldn’t mistake who he was. He adopted the daughter of his uncle Abihail, a little Jewish orphan girl called Hadassah, or Esther as she was...