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Mordechay's decree: "kill women and children, AND/OR plunder their possessions"?
I'm a bit confused here, so maybe the title is not worded well.
Achashverosh let Mordechay write the letters to his own wording:
"ואתם כתבו על־היהודים כטוב בעיניכם בשם המלך"
And you may ...
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Why didn't Mordechai kill Haman?
Some background:
It is a mitzvah to destroy Amalek (Rambam mitzvah #188, Chinuch mitzvah 604).
The Chinuch seems to understand that this is both a mitzvah upon the Jewish people and upon every ...
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Why is Haman called an Agagite and not an Amalekite?
In Megillas Esther 3:1 Haman is called the Agagite which I always assumed meant he was a descendant of Agag the king of the Amalekite in 1 Shmuel 15:8. His lineage is confirmed in Megillah 13a as ...
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