{"id":1666,"date":"2017-02-22T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:41:01","slug":"megillath-esther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/2017\/02\/megillath-esther\/","title":{"rendered":"Megillath Esther by A.J. Rosenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megillath Esther,with Rashi&#8217;s commentary. We have also drawn from lbn Ezra and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Targum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Targum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Targum<\/a>, Mikraoth Gedoloth.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1667 size-medium alignnone\" title=\"Megillath Esther by A.J. Rosenberg\" src=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg-300x247.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg-300x247.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg-1024x843.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg-768x632.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg-400x329.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Esther_Rosenberg.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After these standard commentaries, we have quoted <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Targum Sheni\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Targum_Sheni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Targum Sheni<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Midrash\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midrash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Midrash<\/a> Abba Gurion, Midrash Lekah Tov, Rabbi Isaiah da Trani, and Rabbi Eleazar of Worms, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Malbim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malbim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Malbim<\/a> and the Gra.<br \/>\nWe have also enclosed a diagram of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ahasuerus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahasuerus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ahasuerus<\/a>&#8216;s palace, showing the location of Esther&#8217;s quarters in the house of the women, from where she could approach Ahasuerus only by way of the forbidden inner court, whereas Haman had easy access to Ahasuerus &#8216;s throne room by way of the outer court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megillath Esther,with Rashi&#8217;s commentary. We have also drawn from lbn Ezra and the Targum, Mikraoth Gedoloth. After these standard commentaries, we have quoted Targum Sheni, Midrash Abba Gurion, Midrash Lekah Tov, Rabbi Isaiah da Trani, and Rabbi Eleazar of Worms, Malbim and the Gra. We have also enclosed a diagram of Ahasuerus&#8216;s palace, showing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,518,538],"tags":[556,552,555,454,554,126,553],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-megillath","category-purim","category---megillas-esther","tag-gra","tag-ibn-ezra","tag-lekah-tov","tag-malbim","tag-midrash-abba-gurion","tag-rashi","tag-targum-sheni","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47157,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/47157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}