<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Michael Makovi <<a href="mailto:mikewinddale@gmail.com">mikewinddale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Alternatively, Soncino says that perhaps Achashverosh deliberately<br>
misunderstood Haman's act as rape just to increase Haman's misery<br>
(again, Haman was simply begging for her mercy).<br>
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Mikha'el Makovi</blockquote></div><br><br>Hypothesis [not mine I sw this years ago]<br>Achashveirosh never did anything arbitrarily - he cloaked it with a veil of legalism. Illlustrations:<br><ol><li>With Vashti - he made her rebelliousness a cause celebre of anti-Feminist rage</li>
<li>Witt Haman, he would not simply excute him as a personal matter, when he could find him guilty of attempted rape of the queen. </li></ol><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>