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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Reading Megillat Esther More Closely
Description: In-Person event presentation by Ilan Kogan About the Event:We will be looking at several verses from the Book of Esther and seeing what questions could be gleaned from those verses. Several verses in the Book of Esther utilize double language, missing or additional letters, and sometimes what seems to be contradictory information. After discussing possible questions that could be found in those verses, we will look at the commentary on each of those verses that answered at least one question from each verse. We will be able to see that the Rabbis were not dismissive...