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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

October 1, part two

In doing more reading on Esther, I discovered that the enmity between Mordecai and Haman is deeper than at first it seems. The feud apparently is meant to hark back to a war described in Deuteronomy 25 between Amalek (Haman's ancestor) and the Jews (Mordecai's ancestors). Deuteronomy 25:19 calls the Jews not to forget about Amalek, but to blot out his memory forever. So Esther's story is a continuation of an ethnic battle which happened long before her birth. Human history is full of such continuing ethnic hatreds, as is our modern world. The slaughter at the end of the story of Esther is not just revenge on Haman, but on the descendents of Amalek. Does it never end? Shelly

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