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To: Ezekiel; Lera
The Book of Esther

...The word HaShem doesn’t appear openly in the Megillat, because in life the Divine remains hidden until we read between the lines of our own life-story. The very name Megillat Esther alludes to this, since in Hebrew, “Megillat” also means revelation of, and Esther means that which is hidden. Putting the two together, Megillat Esther means revealing the hidden. This explains the custom of wearing masks and costumes on Purim: It causes those who see us to attempt to reveal that which we have hidden, since this is essence of what we all should do while reading the Megillat Esther.

http://www.betemunah.org/esther.html

The Divine Name (The Tetragrammaton) does not appear openly in the book of Esther (although it does appear in skip sequence) it is for this reason... I will hide My face from them

Devarim 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

First off JD Farag can't pronounce 'Purim' or 'Megillat' and then he goes downhill from there.

Another key to the Book of Esther is that when it says 'king Ahasuerus' it's referring to the Persian king but when it simply says 'king' it is referring to Hashem (The Divine Name,The Tetragrammaton).

Example:

Esther 1:17 For the queen’s behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when they report, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come.’ 18 This very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media will say to all the king’s officials that they have heard of the behavior of the queen. Thus there will be excessive contempt and wrath. 19 If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she. 20 When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will honor their husbands, both great and small.” 21 And the reply pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan. ...let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

And the reply pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan

And this is where JD Farag might be correct, his group might be banished from the presence of the King, then beheaded, as was Vashti. I hope not...

Google: Vashti beheaded

Ouch...

5 posted on 03/16/2017 7:09:23 PM PDT by Jeremiah Jr (EL CHI)
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To: Jeremiah Jr
Haman is first alluded to in the Torah at Gen 3:11.

Gen 3

11. And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have (המן) you eaten of the tree, which I commanded you that you should not eat:
12. And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate:
13. And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate:
14. And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life:

ויאמר מי הגיד לך כי עירם אתה המן־העץ אשר צויתיך לבלתי אכל־ממנו אכלת׃

Hamin-haetz (המן־העץ) ... Haman is attached (hyphenated) to that tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A mixture.

The serpent was the first Bible scholar. "Here, how if I help interpret that for you."

Haman was hanged on the gallows of his own creation. Gallows is the same word as tree. Cursed/hanged on a tree. המן־העץ

Ha-man is also "the manna", the man (tree of life).

John 6

47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

6 posted on 03/17/2017 1:01:34 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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