[Avodah] Mikveh l'zona

[Daniel Eidensohn]

Yzkd at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/26/2007 6:27:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> yadmoshe at 012.net.il writes:
>
>      However Rashi is
>     understood  as meaning that  she went to the mikva for Achashveros.
>
>   As to Shitas Rashi Lan"d it is clear that the Tvilah was for 
> Mordechai and "after" being with Achasveirosh (the mikva was for being 
> with Achsveirosh),
Rashi (Megila 13b) says: "Esther was tovel for the sake of cleanliness 
so that she should not be disgusting to the tzadik [Mordechai] because 
of her intimacy with Achashveros."

Ohr Godol (Simon aleph page 9) deduces from the fact that Rashi doesn't 
say that she was tovel for Mordechai because of nidah that she must have 
already toveled for nidah when she was with Achashveros.

Daniel Eidensohn