{"id":47328,"date":"2026-02-07T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?post_type=product&#038;p=47328"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:56:54","slug":"sefer-pirush-megilas-achashevrosh-saruk","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/product\/sefer-pirush-megilas-achashevrosh-saruk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sefer Pirush Megilas Achashevrosh Saruk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parchment paper&#8221; fine edition<br \/>\nFree Shipping and Returns<br \/>\nSefer Pirush Megilas Achashevrosh Saruk Venice Fine Ed. \u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05dc\u05ea \u05d0\u05d7\u05e9\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05e1\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7<br \/>\nPerush al Megillat Achashverosh. Rabbi Zechariah ben Saruk<br \/>\nCommentary on Esther, Zechariah Saruk, 1585<br \/>\n\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05e2\u05dc \u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05dc\u05ea \u05d0\u05e1\u05ea\u05e8 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05e6\u05d9\u05d0\u05d4<br \/>\n\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 \u05de\u05d8\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4<br \/>\n&#8220;The king comes across as even more nefarious in the commentary of Rabbi Zechariah ben Saruk, an exegete who lived in Spain and north Africa in the fifteenth century. Rabbi Zechariah was an admirer of Aristotle, especially of the philosopher\u2019s Politics; however his depictions of the ancient Persian government might owe more to the events of the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion from Iberia (his commentary to Esther was completed in Algiers in 1493). According to Rabbi Zechariah\u2019s interpretation, when Haman approached the king he was only requesting permission to outlaw their religion and to confiscate their property; but it was Ahasuerus who expanded that original decree into a broad mandate \u201cto destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews,\u201d with the expenses of the campaign being borne by the government. &#8221; Via E. Segal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parchment paper&#8221; fine edition<br \/>\nFree Shipping and Returns<br \/>\nSefer Pirush Megilas Achashevrosh Saruk Venice Fine Ed. \u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05dc\u05ea \u05d0\u05d7\u05e9\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05e1\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7<br \/>\nPerush al Megillat Achashverosh. Rabbi Zechariah ben Saruk<br \/>\nCommentary on Esther, Zechariah Saruk, 1585<br \/>\n\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9 \u05e2\u05dc \u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05dc\u05ea \u05d0\u05e1\u05ea\u05e8 \u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05e6\u05d9\u05d0\u05d4<br \/>\n\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 \u05de\u05d8\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1033,1801,1135,1151,1005,1629],"product_tag":[1448,4323,1017,3954,2732,1923],"class_list":{"0":"post-47328","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-hebrew","7":"product_cat-italian-jewry","8":"product_cat-jewish-history","9":"product_cat-megilat-esther","10":"product_cat-purim","11":"product_cat-1629","12":"product_tag-hebrew","13":"product_tag-megillas-esther","14":"product_tag-purim","15":"product_tag-spain","16":"product_tag-venice","17":"product_tag-1923","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"virtual","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/47328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=47328"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=47328"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=47328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}