“Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything

Midrash Rabbah Esther Rabbah 10:8

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 4, 2025

“Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him: If Mordekhai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the progeny of the Jews, you will not overcome him, for you will fall before him” (Esther 6:13). “Haman told his wife Zeresh…” At that moment the king’s attendants arrived and took him to the feast on the sixteenth of Nisan. When they had eaten and drunk, the king said to Esther: ‘What is your petition?’ She said to him: ‘My lord the king, I am only petitioning you for “my life with my petition, and my people with my request”’ (Esther 7:3).

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