Timeline for What are the consequences of Vashti’s dual nature?
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | Isaac Kotlicky | This would explain Achashverosh's predilection toward being drunk all the time... | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 22:06 | comment | added | jake | @ephraimhelfgot, The quote from Shemos and it's translation as "beast" is not a joke. Check any translation to the Chumash, as well as much of the second chapter of Bava Kamma. Only the comparison to Esther was in jest. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 14:33 | vote | accept | J. C. Salomon | ||
| Mar 5, 2014 at 0:19 | comment | added | jake | @Yitzchak, בערה בו is not a name, but rather a description. "בערה" = "his beast" (as in "ושלח את בערה" of Ex. 22:4), so that the full phrase "וחמתו בערה בו" means "his mother-in-law, his beast, was with him". This implies that one of Vashti's mothers was an animal that belonged to Achashverosh and that she happened to be with him at the time. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Yitzchak | In that case, who was בערה בו? | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 1:00 | history | edited | msh210♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2013 at 23:31 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Nicely done :-) | |
| Feb 25, 2013 at 23:04 | history | answered | jake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |