Ahasuerus

Go to God in prayer and cry.

That night could not King Ahasuerus sleep.

He said bring me the chronicles.

And he said this person has done this.

Some people only get to the top by association.

For example, in the Purim story, we have King Ahasuerus, who was himself a commoner.

He was not part of the royal family.

And how did he get to the top? Because he married Queen Vashti, who was...

En Esdras, Jesús es presentado como el Dios de nuestros padres, mientras que en Nehemías lo vemos como el restaurador de Israel.

En el libro de Ester, cuando la reina Ester se presenta frente a su esposo, el rey Asuero, para interceder por su pueblo, es un cuadro profético del Señor Jesucristo, quien intercede por su pueblo y es su abogado.

Y de ese venerable patriarca Job aprendemos lo siguiente: «Yo sé que mi redentor vive y que al fin se levantará sobre el polvo».

Con los ojos de la fe profetizó la realidad del oficio redentor de Jesús.

What's the difference between the word Pekida and Zakhira? Hashem attended to her needs, but it probably means this Pekida is much more technocratic.

Remember in Miguel's Esther? So Achashverosh is encouraged to appoint officials to collect women and bring them for this beauty pageant.

So, there's no relationship between the king and the Pekidim.

They're just functionaries, they're bureaucrats.

Now, if the Mishnah stopped here, there would be nothing surprising to us whatsoever, because we've learned the Megillah, and we know that some people celebrated the 14th, some the 15th.

What would be a little odd is why is it walled from the time of Yerushalmanon? If you were picking a date for which cities had to be walled to qualify as walled, what date would you have picked? No? Ahashverosh.

Ahashverosh.

And there is an opinion in the Gemara, Rabbi Yeshua ben Karcher, the Gemara will quote on the next Amut, Rabbi Yeshua ben Karcher says, from the time of Ahashverosh.

That makes perfect sense.

Why? Because the only people who marked Purim on the 15th were the Jews in Shushan.

So, I mean, Esther's a great example.

Do we not all believe our Bible says that marrying an unbeliever is actually a sin to be unequally yoked? You find nothing in the record of Esther that chastises her for marrying, uh, Ahasuerus.

You...

Nothing at all, right? The story just presumes that God has elevated her to this position of queenship, of rule, of power and influence in order to preserve the remnant of Israel in Persia, and most people accept that as a, as a prima facie way to read the story, right? So when excessive moralizing overtakes the hermeneutic, we don't, we can't read the nuance of what is it like to be a midwife in Egypt? What does that, what does that compromise scenario require of me to honor God's will and his grace in my life and preserve the lives that I can preserve today? And so those are the situations we need to think about rather than assuming we live in this glorified Christendom, and that we're reestablishing the perfect the- theocracy of Israel in our modern day.