The Book of Esther and the Haggadah tell of Jewish victories and the punishment of Jewish enemies. In 2024, they are prescient, agonizing and troubling as never before.

The Book of Esther: Word for WORD Bible Comic (Book 5) by Simon Amadeus Pillario, Leslie Wilmer Simonin and Ryan Esch. Simon Amadeus Pillario writes, Our ...

Esther has the longest verse in the Hebrew Bible, 43 Hebrew words. The feasts in Esther come in couplets. There are constant reversal of fortunes to each of the book’s major characters.

What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

The Book of Esther tells how she and her pious cousin, Mordecai, defeated the scheming Haman, a powerful royal adviser, thereby saving the Jewish people from annihilation.

To avoid getting into a whole megillah, this brief summary, which includes selections from the midrash, assumes some basic acquaintance with the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Esther).

However, Esther 9:20 explicitly mentions that “Mordecai wrote these things,” i.e., a recapitulation of events “in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the ...

Sarah Halperin, 3, listens Sunday, March 16, 2014, as her father, Rabbi Yaacov Halperin, reads from the Book of Esther during the Jewish Festival of Purim at Chabad of the Lehigh Valley in South ...

Even if you’re a serious student of the Bible, you might not know what the Book of Esther is doing there, in the Bible. Don’t worry though, nobody else knows either. Although it tells of near ...

As editor of the book, Halpern assembled two dozen essays from an impressive roster of accomplished scholars, each of whom offers a modern midrash on the meanings of Esther in the American Diaspora.