Esther: Wilder Than You Remember

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• ED

  @educatingwithwisdom7770 · 4 weeks ago

  The king is having a kind of drunken party with his buddies. That is why the queen doesn't want to show up.

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• AU

  @austinlc99 · 8 months ago

  Esther? Hardly know her!

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• DA

  @danielcopeland3544 · 8 months ago

  What gets me is that Haman&apos;s suggestion when he thinks he&apos;s going to be honoured includes a guy walking around behind his fancy horse announcing &quot;So shall it be done to the man the king desires to honour,&quot; and then when it&apos;s Mordecai getting honoured the king makes <i>him</i> do the announcing.

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• JO

  @josephturner7569 · 8 months ago

  It reminded me of A Horse and His Boy.<br>A tale in the middle with no connection to Narnia.

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• SK

  @skinheadoconnor8721 · 7 months ago

  Purim is a very fun holiday, and the various aspects tie into this story in interesting ways. The costumes hint at the them of hidden identity- &nbsp;Esther taking on a false name, but also the hidden role of G!d in the story. <br><br>One is also religiously obliged to get good and drunk on Purim. Specifically, one must lose the ability to distinguish between the phrases &quot;blessed be Mordecai&quot; and &quot;cursed be Hamon&quot;. This expresses a sense of euphoria in the revenge fantasy, and is often interpreted in a cautionary light- ie be careful about getting drunk on revenge, because you you might lose the ability to distinguish between helping your community and hurting your enemies. <br><br>Also when the story is read, everyone boos loudly whenever Harmon&apos;s name is mentioned, and uses noisemakers to drown out his name (blotting out Amalek) and there are some other crowd participation aspects, like some sort of liturgical Rocky Horror showing. <br><br>Also you make cookies called Hamantaschen which are so-so.

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• ZI

  @ZipplyZane · 8 months ago (edited)

  I think part of Esther being Mordecai&apos;s cousin instead of daughter is to make it more plausible that everyone knows Mordecai is a Jew but has no clue about Esther.

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• TH

  @TheCoffeeElemental · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fPJJPHfPsc&amp;t=2501">41:41</a> “Chill out. Have a moon pie. Stop killing people.”

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• CA

  @CanEnjaHammanTalk · 8 months ago (edited)

  Props to Tantalus in Percy Jackson for getting me to look up where Anatolia is. Now I can make fun of Dan M for placing us in Türkiye.

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• MA

  @MartinVeneroso · 8 months ago (edited)

  Another fun Purim tradition some practice: drinking enough so that one can no longer tell Haman from Mordecai. <b>After</b> one has heard &quot;the whole megillah,&quot; of course.

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• AL

  @algortomorto · 8 months ago

  On Community: Matt Berry - one of my favorite British comedians

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• SD

  @sdastoryteller3381 · 8 months ago

  Great podcast Gentlemen. But there are a few things I&apos;m surprised you didn&apos;t cover. <br>1) Esther&apos;s original Jewish name of &nbsp;Hadassah.<br>2) the insane height of Hamman&apos;s Gallows at nearly 75 feet. Taller than most buildings at the time. Like one of those &quot;Drop rides&quot; at an amusement park. <br>3) P.Diddy levels of Oil baths theses women went through in the beauty contest. <br>4) Esther 2 (electric Boogaloo) in some Catholic Bibles.<br><br>Please cover those if you do a sequel. @dataoverdogma

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• MI

  @mikececconi2677 · 8 months ago

  When you introduce yourselves as Dan and Dan, I always think about They Might Be Giants introducing themselves as John and John. Love it.

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