[Avodah] Esther and Achashveirosh

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>>However I also always understood the "ka'asher avadti avadti" to  mean, not 
 
that she would automatically be chayav kares for going to  the throne room, 
but  
that by going to the king's throne room  voluntarily she was greatly 
increasing  the chances ...etc<<  [--old TK]
 
>>>>
I should have added that if you translate "ka'asher avadti  avadti" as "if I 
am doomed to kares I am doomed to kares" -- that is not  pshat.  Pshat is that 
it means, "If I lose my life, I lose my life."   There is also nothing in the 
pshat to indicate that Esther and Mordechai were  ever married.
 
 




--Toby  Katz
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