On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Danny Schoemann <<a href="mailto:doniels@gmail.com">doniels@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Torah Shleimah Megilas Esther brings the [Medrash] Esther Rabbo.<br>
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On the pasuk1:10 regarding the 7 Sorisim:Royalty never has fewer than<br>
7 Sorisim serving the king. (Esther Rabbo 3:12)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'm not sure what you're trying to infer from this medrash. (Or if you are.) No one has disputed that these sarisim were servants. The lashon of sarisei hamelech makes no sense otherwise. The only question is, were those servants of the eunuch variety or of the fertile variety.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On the pasuk 2:3 HayGay Saris Hamelech: Mochui (Saris) Hoyo. (Esther Rabbo 5:3)</blockquote>
<div><br>Can we be mashma from here that only the saris shomer hanashim was a eunuch and not the other sarisim? I don't know. <br></div><div><br></div></div>KT,<br>Michael<br>