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NORTHWESTERN HIGHWAY, BETWEEN 12 & 13 MILE ROADS 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.