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Shabbat Terumah:
Exodus 25:1-29:10;
I Kings 5:26-6:13.
k'neged shishim ribo, of one person
being equal to the whole of Israel. Just
as a nation doesn't die, so these unique
individuals who represent the whole
nation never really die. Haman real-
ized that Mordechai was such a person
and that it would be futile to kill
Mordechai alone (3:6), for Mordechai
he megillah and the story of is the embodiment of the nation Israel
and the nation is the extension of
Purim occurred at the sun-
Mordechai, so only total eradication
set of the glorious day of
of the whole nation could erase the
prophecy. The nation as a
power of Mordechai. Such
whole was facing the sad real-
is the stuff from which
ity of a nonprophetic future.
Jewish leaders are made.
During the Passover story
King Ahasverosh had a
(which happened during the
paranoid
fear of an insur-
prophetic era), Moses, the
rection
against
the throne.
messenger of God, received
The
Talmud
relates
that he
clear, exact instructions on
was not the legitimate heir
how and what to do in fulfill-
to the kingdom, rather the
ing his mission.
son of the steward of the
Mordechai and Esther, also
royal stables. His only con-
RAB BI
messengers of God, living in
nection
with royalty was
STEVE N WEIL
a nonprophetic age, had no
through
his wife Vashti,
Specia 1 to The
clear guidelines how to
daughter
of Belshazzar, for-
implement their goal. They
Jewis h News
mer
emperor
of Babylonia.
had to use their own initia-
She obviously despised him
tive, imagination and ingenu-
ity to carry out their divinely ordained as a social climber who lacked any
royal grace and dignity. There was an
"mission impossible": to save the
underground
movement to overthrow
nation from annihilation. This period
the
government
and restore the old
of Esther is described as a period of
order,
as
evidenced
by the assassina-
hester panim, a time during which
tion
attempt
by
Bigtan
and Seresh.
God seems to have hidden His pres-
Ahasverosh tried to "buy" the coun-
ence. All it really means is that He
try's loyalty by making those lavish
directs the action from the sidelines,
from the shadows, without the glaring parties and inviting everyone to eat
and drink and view his wealth and
spotlights to pinpoint His involve-
women. But this is all clearly the
ment.
In every generation there are people working of a mind that feels very inse-
whom God chooses to be His messen- cure and fears revolt. The absurd law
(4:11) proclaiming death to anyone
gers, to become history makers. In the
who
entered the throne room without
nonprophetic existence, they have to
an appointment seems also to be an
use much imagination and ingenuity
outgrowth of his paranoid fear of
to fulfill their mission. Whom does
revolt or assassination. When Vashti
God choose? People who aren't simply
publicly
insults him, he was worried
individuals, but those in whom a mul-
that
if
he
should kill this would
titude abides; individuals who contain
inspire
a
revolution.
within them a whole nation.
M'muchan (1:16-20) gave him the
Their role within Israel is that of
following brilliant analysis: "True, if
the heart among the organs of the
you kill Vashti you may trigger a
body. The heart is affected by anxiety,
revolt; but if you allow her to survive
joy, fear, anger and any other stresses
to the body, yet it remains the hardiest after publicly insulting the king, then
she will serve as a model for all the
and strongest of all the organs. The
women
of royal blood to insult their
individuals whom God chooses are
husbands."
It was the custom in antiq-
those who see themselves affected by
uity
for
the
victor to marry the widow
whatever happens to the nation, who
or
daughter
of the vanquished power.
cry with the pain of Israel and rejoice
Thus, many of Ahashverosh's officers
at its happy moments. Such individu-
had married women of the old order.
als are more than single persons; they
"If they saw that the queen was not
personify a whole nation within them-
punished
for her insolence, they too
selves. This is the concept of shakul
would start fighting their husbands
and join the underground movement
Rabbi Steven Weil is the rabbi of the
to restore the old order. The way to
Young Israel of Oak Park.