Yossi Marcus

G-d as manifest in the myriad hosts of creatures of the lower worlds…

The Torah is not in heaven…it is to be fulfilled on earth

The original text of the Megillah (Book of Esther) with a running commentary culled from the Talmud and Midrash, the great Torah commentators and the chassidic masters.

King Achashverosh levied a tax upon the mainland and the islands of the sea...

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, when the time for the carrying out of the king's edict and law had arrived, on the day the enemies of the Jews had thought they would dominate them, the situation was reversed...

On that day, King Achashverosh gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, persecutor of the Jews. And Mordechai came before the king...

The king and Haman came to drink with Queen Esther. And again on the second day the king said to Esther during the wine feast, "What is your plea, Queen Esther?"...

That night, the king's sleep was disturbed. He ordered that the Book of Records, the Chronicles, be brought, and they were read before the king...

On the third day Esther donned [garments of] royalty and stood in the inner courtyard of the palace, facing the palace...

Mordechai knew all that had occurred, so Mordechai tore his clothes in mourning and put on sackcloth and ash...