[Avodah] did Achashverosh have multiple wives?

[Arie Folger]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 22:05 <mcohen at touchlogic.com> wrote:
> i think the common understanding of the status of the ladies after being
> sent to the beit hanashim was that either they were either
> a) called back to become 'the' queen,
> b) or they went home,
> c) or (according the gra) they stayed there forever in limbo bc once
> test-driven by Achashverosh they could never marry a commoner.
> but not that they become pilagshim

I see no reason to doubt the obvious custom; they didn't go home, and they
could wait forever for being called once again at the king's whim. That is
the obvious meaning of ki im chafatz bah hamelekh venikrrah besheim.