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size=2>From: Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe@012.net.il><BR>>>Rashi
(Megila 13b) says: "Esther was tovel for the sake of cleanliness <BR>so that she
should not be disgusting to the tzadik [Mordechai] because <BR>of her intimacy
with Achashveros."<BR><BR>Ohr Godol (Simon aleph page 9) deduces from the fact
that Rashi doesn't <BR>say that she was tovel for Mordechai because of nidah
that she must have <BR>already toveled for nidah when she was with
Achashveros.<<<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV></DIV>
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