i
Achashverush is the king who displayed the
vast riches of his kingdom, over the course of a festival.
He
celebrates with all strata of people: from the great to the
small.
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Achashverush orders his queen to show herself, in all
her beauty.
The queen refuses. She is deposed for
this.
ii
In a life of riches, you have the means to care for even
the weakest of people: even the small.
And in a life of riches,
you are tempted to see people around you as objects that you
own.
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Achashverush lives both of these sides of
wealth.
iii
Mordechai cares for Esther, an orphan.
Haman
suggests killing off all the Jewish people, and offers Achashverush
money.
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One man tends to the weak.
The other man see lives
as things to be bought and sold.
Both men live out one side of
Achashverush, or the other.
iv
The question of the book is: Which
man, in the end, will Achashverush cleave to?
And the question of the
book is: Which man will we—in whatever wealth we have—cleave to?
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