[Avodah] Vashti's tail

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:
> Just a thought -- with all the comments on this thread -- is it possible 
> that something protruded from some orifice or another -- not an animal 
> tail, but something medical, some female condition or bowel condition?  
> A hernia, dropped uterus, hemorrhoid, tumor or who knows what?  Maybe 
> there's a way to square the "midrashim should be taken literally" school 
> with the "no miracles in the Megillah" school?

Again, in that case why invoke Malach Gavriel?  He wasn't considered
necessary for the tzaraat, but he was for the tail.  The only difference
I can see is that tzaraat happens now and then, but tails generally don't.
At least not to people who were born without them.

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