Persian Jews

Xerxes throwing a banquet. While this scene says nothing of Esther or the Jewish people, it creates the setting that these Jews are living in. The Jews, who are not meant to be materialistic, not meant to cling to the things of this world or to live in sin, are living among people who prize and cherish these things. The author describes the rich abundance and luxury of Persian culture in great detail, even depicting the curtains and the royal colors splashed across the household items. Xerxes comes

place in Persia around 464 BC to 495 BC. It is a story of Gods redemptive plan using a courageous Jewish woman born Hadassah which means hidden that is what she would become among the group of Persian women that was brought before the Persian Emperor Xerxes so he could select his new queen. Xerxes had a Persian queen Vashti whom he divorced because she disobeyed him and publicly. Xerxes was a careless a foolish ruler who allowed his right-hand man Haman to rein and rule the kingdom without overseeing

captured Jerusalem again Zedekiah was blinded and led away in chains. However this time the Babylonians deported all but the poorest people in Judah to other parts of the Babylonian Empire. They also plundered the temple in Jerusalem. 571 While the Jews were in exile in Babylon Ezekiel had a series of visions Ezekiel describes his calling to be a prophet by going into great detail about his encounter with God and four living creatures or Cherubim with four wheels that stayed beside the creatures.

The book of Esther appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of five scrolls that is read on festivals or commemorative days of the Jewish year. Esther is the story of the deliverance of the Jews from destruction and persecution from King Ahasuerus’ official named Haman. In this story, Esther shows great courage and devotion to her Jewish people, and even risks her own safety to help defend them against the wrongdoings of Haman. This story interests me most because it is a story about a woman’s courage

religions consider organ donation as permissible. Muslims are strictly forbidden from the process of cremation, while Jewish rules on cremation can vary depending on the denomination. Conservative Jews oppose cremation while the process has become an increasingly more popular and acceptable practice among Reform Jews. In both religions the body is considered sacred and handled with care. Muslims are obligated to perform a procedure known as ghusl, or washing, on the body of the deceased. This procedure

around. Since she refused him the King divorced her and held a pageant to find a new queen. Esther and a bunch of other women were take up to the King’s home and put in the pageant. Esther was afraid that someone would find out her nationality, because Jews were deeply despised. This rags to riches story begins after Esther went before the King, and he chose her to be his queen. Esther 2:9 states, “Now the young Lady pleased him and found favor with him So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and

“‘Don't think a moment that because you're in the palace you will escape when all the other Jews are killed. If you keep quiet at a time like this deliverance and relief of the Jews will arise from some other place but your relatives will die.’”-Esther 4: 13-14. Considering Esther was a Jew, she was good example of a hypocrite when Mordecai asked her for help but was hesitant to help her people, the Jews as Haman ordered their

providence. While God is not directly mentioned by name we are given many clues to his presence and participation in the events of the book. Even before we are introduced to the villain, Haman, and made privy to his plan to exterminate Mordecai and the Jews (Esther 3:1-3) we witness God’s divine providence in placing Esther and Mordecai into a position of influence to thwart Haman’s murderous plan. This providence first appears in chapter 1 with the undoing of Queen Vashti (1:10-22), it continues in the

Every country that has various holidays, the Jews also have several holidays. Most their holidays are enacted by God in the Bible, such as the Passover, the Feast of Tabernacles, and Shavuoth. The meaning of these are different, but they have a common denominator. This is “remember!” What should it remember? These holidays make the Jews recall ‘their hopeless past without God’ and God’s salvation. Today, I would like to introduce another holiday of the Jews. This is Purim. Although this is not enacted

movie the title could be called “Providence of Connection”. Why? Because it is shed’s light of how God’s chosen people were given retribution through Him by His divine protection from their enemies. The leading topic of Esther is deliverance of the Jews by Queen Esther. To describe Queen Esther let’s begin with her roots. She is a Jewish descendent whose cousin Mordecai raised her as his very own daughter. Her Jewish name was Hadassah. She was a young lady when King Xerxes decided he wanted another