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And now, we present the #WholeMegillah... @JewishTweets style!
Book of Esther, Chapter 1: Achashverosh hosts massive party. EVERYONE is invited. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Queen Vashti denies the king. Oooo she's in trouble. A new queen is sought. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Mysterious beauty contest winner, Esther, becomes queen. No one knows where she is from. #WholeMegillah #Purim
New Prime Minister #Haman orders all to bow before him. #Esther's Uncle #Mordechai refuses. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Esther informs King #Achashverosh of assassination plot discovered by #Mordechai her uncle. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Achashverosh agrees to let #Haman order a massacre of all Jews on 13 Adar, returns Haman's silver bribe. #WholeMegillah #Purim #BooHaman
Dressed in clothes of mourning, #Mordechai instructs #Esther to intercede. #WholeMegillah #Purim
At Queen #Esther's request, the Jews fast and pray for three days. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Unbidden, Queen #Esther approaches the king. He welcomes her with his golden scepter. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Esther invites the King and #Haman to a series of private parties. Haman feels on top of the world. #WholeMegillah #Purim #BooHaman
Post party, sleepless Achashverosh decides to reward Mordechai for unveiling regicide plot. Haman charged with honoring him. #WholeMegillah
At second party, #Esther reveals "I am a Jew! Haman wants to kill me." #Haman begs for his life. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Mordechai is declared new prime minister. Jews permitted by to defend themselves from enemies. #WholeMegillah #Purim
Haman and his 10 sons hanged on the gallows he built to hang Mordechai. #WholeMegillah #Purim #Schadenfreude
The Jews made the 14th of Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and of sending portions one to another. #WholeMegillah #Purim
That's the #WholeMegillah! Hope you enjoyed our special #Purim synopsis of the Book of Esther.

Wishing you all a Chag Purim Sameach, a very Happy Purim!
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Lenny Ben-David
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Hen Mazzig חן מזיג
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#Purim Thread: Esther, or Hadassah, her Babylonian-Hebrew name, had a tough decision to make: enjoy the riches of the palace, or take action, jeopardizing everything she had.
American Jewry finds themselves in the same predicament as Esther.
At the beginning of the Purim story, Esther was just another Persian woman. When she arrived in the palace she was never treated as royalty, was always looked down upon, and had no real power. Esther did not have any power until the day that Ahasuerus decided to make her a queen
Esther could have just enjoyed this power and never look back at the Jewish people, but she didn’t. Instead, she was willing to give up her new status and riches for her people.
“For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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I think he’s Ahasverus. Happy to commit atrocities if it’s in the interest of his power or purse but ultimately just in it for himself. No moral center, no loyalties, no convictions. Easily manipulated by the Hamans of the world.
Here, have some verses from the Book of Esther. This guy sound familiar?

For no fewer than a hundred and eighty days he displayed the vast riches of his kingdom and the splendid glory of his majesty.
[There were hangings of] white cotton and blue wool, caught up by cords of fine linen and purple wool to silver rods and alabaster columns; and there were couches of gold and silver on a pavement of marble, alabaster, mother-of-pearl, and mosaics.
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HappyLight
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#Purim #פורים What is so significant in the change of empires that we define גלות פרס ומדי as distinct from גלות בבל? (Cf. גלות פרס *ומדי* and the many empires which have flipped during גלות אדום.)
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My rabbi has hypothesized a sexual revolution of Achashwerosh and Vashti (that's based on מגילה יב, א
sefaria.org/Megillah_12a.19) But this doesn't seem to get much attention in the Megilah itself or elsewhere in chazal unless it's central to the Megilah's opening. 2/
We do see a shift to a populist, multicultural empire & there's much to be said about "leveling" in that sort of regime & #Amalek & all that that may be part & parcel of the Achashwerosh-Vashti sexual revolution. 3/
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A.R. Moxon (Read Pinned Tweet!)
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Yesterday the president said “The Democrats are so self righteous and ANGRY! Loosen up and have some fun.”
Outrage on the left is toward abuse of power on behalf of the abused and the narrative is that it’s the cause of divisiveness

Outrage on the right foments violent abuse by the empowered on behalf of the self, and the narrative is it’s an valid expression of social frustration
Do you ever see the formulation “White conservatives, your constant grievance politics and social outrage may be turning off the very voters you need to convince.”

The unexamined assumption is conservatives are the standard, who first must be convinced if you want social change.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Ok. But I’m gonna have to talk about Esther too.

Another Biblical #metoo

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We’re in the Book of Esther. Ahasverus is the Persian king of “127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.” The book opens with a massive party, and a party-within-a-party to boot.
It was kind of like a rager at Georgetown Prep:

”And the rule for the drinking was, “No restrictions!” For the king had given orders to every palace steward to comply with each man’s wishes.”
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