Posts Tagged ‘Persian Empire’
A Lesson from Esther
Most westerners call this the Dead Sea. But I like to call things what the Bible calls them.Yam HaMelach in Hebrew is the Salt Sea. In reading the Book of Esther (and that’s what Jews do on Purim), my mind went to the vastness of the Persian Empire. What Haman proposed was killing every Jew in almost the entire known world.
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