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size=2>From: R' Yitzchok Zirkind<BR><BR>>>L'SIKUM even if Pshat in Gemara
Rashi and Tos. is debatable as to what <BR>Esther did
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<DIV>Personally I find it hard to believe she was married to Mordechai, that
just doesn't seem to be implied in the Megilla at all. And if she was
having relations on a regular basis with Achashverosh, how on earth could she
have kept going back to Mordechai? The logistics are difficult (as I
already mentioned) -- how would she sneak away from the palace? Wouldn't
the palace guards stop her? Wouldn't Achashverosh wonder where she was and
how she got out -- if he happened to want her one night and she wasn't
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<DIV>But even more difficult is the morality and the halachic aspect of
it. How could she play with an issur kareis like that? I know she
was "like karka" but come on, how many times could she be with one man and still
be married to another?? Why didn't Mordechai just give her a get and
at least take away the danger of kareis? </DIV>
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<DIV>Do we know for sure who was the father of her child -- Daryavesh/
Darius? </DIV></DIV>
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