[Avodah] Vashti

[Daniel Israel]

RET writes:
>> I repeat my previous question - what forced Chazal to assume 
>> Vashti has sins and was evil. This is not pshat in the 
>> pesukim.

I'm thinking about it now, and I don't have a megillah handy to see 
if this is in the m'farshim, but there possibly is a hint in the 
pesukim.  It says that Vashti also made a party, that is, the pasuk 
could be comparing her party to Achashverosh's party.  Once you 
learn that his party has a problem, so hers was too.

OTOH, one could argue that the psukim don't obviously indicate that 
his was a problem.

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Daniel M. Israel
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