Esther Was Taken to King Ahashverosh, to His Royal Palace

Esther Rabbah Esther Rabbah 6:10 View source
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“Esther was taken to King Ahashverosh, to his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tevet, in the seventh year of his reign” (Esther 2:16). “Esther was taken [vatilakaḥ] to King Aḥashverosh” – she was rising in price [likuḥin]; this one said: I will give one hundred dinars to escort her to the king, and that one said: I will give two hundred to escort her to the king.

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