[Avodah] Mikveh l'zona

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From: R' Yitzchok Zirkind

>>L'SIKUM even if Pshat in Gemara  Rashi and Tos. is debatable as to what  
Esther did  when<<
 





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Personally I find it hard to believe she was married to Mordechai, that  just 
doesn't seem to be implied in the Megilla at all.  And if she was  having 
relations on a regular basis with Achashverosh, how on earth could she  have kept 
going back to Mordechai?  The logistics are difficult (as I  already 
mentioned) -- how would she sneak away from the palace?  Wouldn't  the palace guards 
stop her?  Wouldn't Achashverosh wonder where she was and  how she got out -- 
if he happened to want her one night and she wasn't  home?!
 
But even more difficult is the morality and the halachic aspect of  it.  How 
could she play with an issur kareis like that?  I know she  was "like karka" 
but come on, how many times could she be with one man and still  be married to 
another??   Why didn't Mordechai just give her a get and  at least take away 
the danger of kareis? 
 
Do we know for sure who was the father of her child -- Daryavesh/  Darius? 
 


--Toby  Katz
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