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as one with the heritage of a poor man [perozeboti], as Mordecai had been Haman’s slave master and was aware of Haman’s lowly lineage. Rav Pappa said: And he was called: The slave who was sold for a loaf of bread.
Haman’s previously quoted statement: “Yet all this avails me nothing” (Esther 5:13), teaches that all the treasures of that wicked one were engraved on his heart, and when he saw Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate, he said: As long as Mordecai is around, all this that I wear on my heart avails me
And R' Elazar further said that R' Ḥanina said: In the future, God will be a crown on the head of each and every righteous man. As it is stated: “In that day shall YHWH of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of His people” (Isaiah 28:5). What is the meaning of
Apropos the quotation from Isaiah, the Talmud explains the following verse, which states: “And for a spirit of justice to him that sits in judgment and for strength to them that turn back the battle to the gate” (Isaiah 28:6). “And for a spirit of justice”; this is referring to one who brings his ev
The Talmud continues with an episode associated with a verse in Isaiah. The Attribute of Justice said before God: God! how are these, referring to the Jewish people, different from those, the other non-Jewish nations, such that God performs miracles only on behalf of the Jewish people? God said to