Queen Esther's Impact On The Jewish Religion

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Queen Esther is an iconic, intelligent woman who left a huge impact on the Jewish religion. Being an ordinary woman coming from Jewish descent and marrying a King of the Persian Empire is not something that happens everyday. Esther means ‘hidden’ which represents her having to hide her true identity of being Jewish for many years. Because of her hidden secret, marrying Xerxes was okay, but some believe this was unlikely. Many people believe that the Esther story is fictional because of a few reasons. One being the fact that noble families usually marry into noble families. Since Esther was infact not from a noble family, this was very unlikely to be a true story also a scholar insisted the fail to mention the name of God and the land of Israel is something very spetical. Since the story of Esther made it to the bible and she is known as an iconic person in the Jewish religion, Jewish and others believe that this is a true story. The one major thing that Esther is known for in her …show more content…

Esther was a young Jewish girl who was separated from her parents when the Jews were forced to move to Persia. Esther and her cousin Mordecai had been closely connected from the start. When Esther was chosen to marry King Xerxes, Mordecai started working as a servant for the king, which is when he overheard the plot about Haman planning to kill all the Jewish people. At one moment, Haman was saying that everyone should worship him because he is a form of God, when Mordecai didn’t, Haman said “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.” This is when Mordecai warned Esther

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