which really has Undertones, yk

also the koren translates haman's fantasy/instructionיָבִיאוּ לְבוּשׁ מַלְכוּת אֲשֶׁר לָבַשׁ־בּוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ וְסוּס אֲשֶׁר רָכַב עָלָיו הַמֶּלֶךְ from ester 6:8 not as generic like "royal robes and the king's horse" but literally "clothes the king has worn, a horse the king has ridden"

ALSO saw on facebook that haman is one of the very rare characters in tanach to have friends and talk to them about his troubles. others: yehuda, iyov

and then the interspersing of the two meals with the mordechai horse thing between them (just noticed the placing this year! always thought the second meal was superfluous and it should have been one), and the double meeting of haman and friends and wife... so neat

also there's so much good timing in the story. of course achashverosh's return from the garden and misreading of h*m*n (and then immediately the word leaves his mouth, haman's face is covered! so good) (also same shoresh, chafu/chafui, as when haman is downfaced after leading mordechai on the horse)

which is interesting also because the jews are famously scattered and distributed amongst the provinces! we are always sending them messages. and yet the megilla is almost a story about the jews and the court of shushan

i am so interested in how 1. shushan the city is almost almost a character ("aghast in horror" or bright and joyous) and 2. the character is not actually - complicit? agreeing? - with achashverosh/haman. like the way the megilla is written, shushan as a city entirely is on the side of the Jews

which trope? (western ashkenazi, eastern ashkenazi, yerushalmi, Spanish Portuguese sefardi, Moroccan...?)

SWERF = sex worker exclusive radical feminist... are you saying the zohar here is an example of radical feminism?