This needlework hanging recounts two scenes from the Old Testament story of Esther and the Persian king Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes). At the left, the seated Mordecai pleads with his cousin Esther ...
8 1 On that same day King Xerxes gave the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Then Mordecai was brought before the king, for Esther had told the king how they were related. 2 ...
On discovering this Esther held a banquet where she revealed that she was Jewish and pleaded for her people. The King briefly left the banquet and returned to find Haman kneeling before the queen.
Queen Esther, the story’s heroine, wields a form of power that is often hard to recognize. Esther’s power, at once demure and mighty, manifests as sacred vulnerability. Characterized by ...
Nonetheless, we were all very different individuals. So, who am I besides being just Esther, a girl named after a queen in the bible? My dad was a teacher and I wanted to be a teacher ever since I ...