[Avodah] Mikveh l'zona

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From: Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe at 012.net.il>
>>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.<<





>>>>>
Was Esther somehow slipping away from the palace at night, or was she  
smuggling Mordechai in?  She lived in a harem guarded by eunuchs, I wonder  how 
either of these scenarios would have been possible.

 

--Toby  Katz
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