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Book of Esther

The Megillah

The Book of Esther stands as one of the most distinctive and dramatic narratives in the Hebrew Bible, telling the story of a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia and courageously intervenes to save her people from genocide.

  • Lectures on the Book of Esther

    In Book of Esther and Purim

    This series of ten lectures on Megillat Esther explores the hidden spiritual drama beneath the surface of Jewish history. Moving between philosophy, halachah, psychology, and biblical interpretation, Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo reads Esther as a text of concealment and courage, where God’s silence, human ambiguity, and moral risk become the very conditions for faith. Together, […]