No, it's not a new shiny shoe band. While listening to the megillah, I had the same question I, and all, always ask. How was it possible for Achashveirosh to not know that Mordechai and Esther were first cousins and that Esther was a Jew?
And then it hit me, when I thought of another question. How is it possible for the "gedolim" to still be against Slifkin's books, how was it possible to get some gadol to sign on to an obvious wrong and slanderous ban statement?
Quite simple actually. King Ach and the Gedolim live in a walled off palace. Nobody and no information comes in without it being filtered through the servants. King Ach had many other things on his mind, finding a hot-queen one of them, and the gedolim have their own things on their minds. So of course Ach and the Gedolim will act upon only the information they receive. To them, there is no other information out there.
Which, BTW, would be a good way to end this mess. Have the gedolim "fire" their servants and all will be forgiven. (I think.)
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Good vort !
Isn't it possible that Esther and Mordechai were just somewhat assimilated Jews? I know that there are midrashim that attribute all sorts of things to them, but this isn't out of the realm of possibility. Now, this has no bearing on whether you're right about the gedolim, but it is an interesting perspective.
Perhaps we can view people who do tremendous things for the Jewish people in a positive light, even when they aren't entirely shomer mitzvot.
Just a thought.
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