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size=2>From: Sarah Green <A
href="mailto:sarahyarok@yahoo.com">sarahyarok@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR>However,
there was one part I never understood - on 'ka'asher avadti
ovodti".... </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>However, in my adult mind it still seems to me that if you go to request
an audience to speak to a king, he is sitting in a public throne room or
reception room surrounded by courtiers and advisors. <BR><BR>So why on
earth, when Esther went to invite him the party, would we need to assume that
anything private or personal would take place? <<</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>The way I always understood that was that, prior to this
moment, she /never/ went to the king voluntarily for /anything/ -- always
had to be taken against her will -- thus making it clear that to her it was no
marriage and she was in the palace under duress, an unwilling captive.
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<DIV>Once she went to the king voluntarily -- for /anything/ -- she was no
longer a captive but a willing actor. She was now acting as a wife
rather than a kidnap victim. </DIV>
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<DIV>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 that he would remember her, think of her and want her -- that
night? -- in his private room, whereupon she might /then/ be chayav
kares. So she wasn't saying, "I will go to the king's throne room even if
going there makes me chayav kares." She was saying, "I will go to the
king's throne room even if going there will increase the odds that I
will shortly thereafter be put in a position where I will be chayav
kares."</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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