Insights from Esther's Tefilah (Targum Rishon to Esther 5:1)

Length: 56 minutes
Synopsis: Tonight (3/12/25), in lieu of our Wednesday night tefilah shiur, we took up a Purim-related tefilah topic: Esther’s tefilah! "But wait," you might object, "where in the Megillah does it say that Esther davened?" The answer: it doesn’t—at least not explicitly. But the Midrashim and midrashic Targumim contain several references to her tefilah, and we analyzed the Targum Rishon on Esther 5:1, where her tefilah is spelled out in detail. I wasn’t sure if we’d arrive at an understanding, but one of the guys in the shiur offered a great explanation, which I supplemented with my own insights to help us implement Esther’s strategy in our own davening.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: הקדמה, מצוות דרבנן
אסתר ד:טו - ה:א
תרגום ראשון לאסתר ה:א
רלב"ג - שמות יז (סוף פרשת בשלח)
תרגום שני לאסתר ה:א
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