Who was Esther's mentor? Who does the eunuch represent in her life?
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Hegai, which in the original language literally means "EUCHNUC", was the man in charge of grooming all the women brought to King Xerxes's "Harem", it was a long and grueling process for the ladies, (Esther 2:12) so naturally some of them became anxious and little despaired, thus the agressiveness that they were showing to Hegai, but Esther remained calmed and docile, to Hegai instructions, And more than a mentor he became a very useful insider, because Hegai knew exactly which were the king's tastes and everything, therefore by being meek and docile, she was groomed in the exact way that she needed, The eunuch in her life represents, the Holy Ghost in our life who is grooming us for the encounter with the king of kings, John 16:13-14 "13  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.  14  He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you." He is a holy insider that can prepare our lifes so that we would be irresistible to the King of Glory, and as these women were palced in Bitter herbs for a period of time and sweet herbs for another period of time, the Holy Ghost, places us in bitter situations that are designed to bring forth the beauty in ou r spiritual life, and sweet situations that enhance and make us desire his ways. And in case I didn't got your right, Her mentor Mordecai son of Jair, was her frist grade cousin, and since her parents had died, he took charge of her, and adopted her as a Daughter, Mordecai literally means A Gift, and represents, your spiritual leaders and pastors, who we all need and are a Gift from God, to guide us on the way of rightousness, we all need them as Esther did, he was always overseeing over Esther's life, giving her sound advice, and easing her burdens. This fascinating story is in the book of Esther in the Bible, and has a lot of messages for our day to day living, like enduring courage, how to deal with a evil adversary and so on, enjoy it.
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Yes, he had a Christian slave (Maria) that he married later on after having a son from her. He also had three Jewish wives (Safeya, Gowayreya, and Reyhana) that he enslaved during his wars and married later on.
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I don't think that anyone knows, but she was probably young.  I think that the Hebrew word Alma which is used in Isaiah 7:14 means a young woman of mairrageable age.  But of course to say that she would be a young woman does not contradict the fact that she was a virgin also.  Young women in biblical times were assumed to be virgins because fornicators and adulterers were stoned to death.  Mary was both a young woman and a virgin.  Also, in Isaiah 7:14 it says that there would be a sign which means that there would be something unique about the Christ's birth(virgin birth).  Also, it says that He would be called Immanuel which means "God with us".  Jesus is literally God with us.  www.equip.org
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Immanuel, "God is with us." The simple fact is that it is quite common in the Bible for human beings to be given names that have the purpose of declaring or reflecting a particular attribute of God, e.g., Eliab, Eliada, Elzaphan, Eliakim, Elisha, Eleazar, Tavel, Gedaliah.\n\nIn Isaiah 7:14 the Hebrew states "hinei ha'almah harah veyoledet ben" "behold (hineih) the young woman (ha - the almah- young woman) is pregnant (harah) and shall give birth (ve-and yoledet-shall give birth) to a son (ben)". The Christians translate this as "behold a virgin shall give birth." They have made two mistakes (probably deliberate) in the one verse. They mistranslate "ha" as "a" instead of "the". They mistranslate "almah" as "virgin", when in fact the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah". Aside from the fact that if you read the context of that prediction you will see clearly that it is predicting an event that was supposed to happen and be seen by king Achaz who lived 700 years before Jesus!
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So that Abraham might have a seed, his barren wife, Sarah, offered him her servant girl, Hagar, as a child bearer. By her, Abraham fathered Ishmael, but God did not choose him as the promised Seed. Rather, when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90, Jehovah enabled them to have a son named Isaac. When Ishmael mocked Isaac, Hagar and her son were sent away, leaving Abraham’s son by the free woman Sarah as Abraham’s undisputed seed. Like Abraham, Isaac also exercised faith and enjoyed God-given freedom.—Genesis 16:1-16; 21:1-21; 25:5-11.\n\nThese events foreshadowed things very significant to lovers of God-given freedom. This was noted in the letter the apostle Paul wrote to the congregations of Galatia about 50 to 52 C.E. By then the governing body had decided that circumcision was not required of Christians. But false teachers had persuaded some of the Galatians that it was a vital feature of Christianity.\n\nPaul told the Galatians: A person is declared righteous through faith in Christ, not by works of the Mosaic Law. (1:1–3:14) The Law did not invalidate the promise linked with the Abrahamic covenant but made transgressions manifest and served as a tutor leading to Christ. (3:15-25) By his death, Jesus released those under Law, enabling them to become sons of God. Hence, returning to an arrangement of observing days, months, seasons, and years would mean going back into slavery. (4:1-20) Paul then wrote:\n\n“Tell me, you who want to be under law, Do you not hear the Law? For example, it is written that Abraham acquired two sons, one [Ishmael] by the servant girl [Hagar] and one [Isaac] by the free woman [Sarah]; but the one by the servant girl was actually born in the manner of flesh, the other by the free woman through a promise. These things stand as a symbolic drama; for these women mean two covenants, the one [the Law covenant] from Mount Sinai [where God inaugurated that covenant with the Israelites], which brings forth children for slavery, and which is Hagar. [The other covenant was the one made with Abraham regarding his Seed.] Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, and she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children [descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob]. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”—Galatians 4:21-26.\n\nIn this symbolic drama, Abraham was a figure of Jehovah. “The free woman,” Sarah, pictured God’s “woman,” or holy universal organization. It produced Christ, the Seed of that symbolic woman and of the Greater Abraham. (Galatians 3:16) To show people the way of release from unclean worship, sin, and Satan, Jesus taught the truth and exposed false religion, but Jerusalem and her children remained in religious bondage because they rejected him. (Matthew 23:37, 38) Jesus’ Jewish followers became free from the Law, which showed up their bondage to imperfection, sin, and death. Free indeed are all humans who accept Jesus as the One brought forth by God’s “woman” to be the Messianic King and the Emancipator ‘proclaiming liberty to the captives’!—Isaiah 61:1, 2; Luke 4:18, 19.
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The celebrity magazines often create nicknames for celebrities in order to create a sense of intimacy. Psychologically, if you know her by a nickname, you'll feel like you really know her and become more interested in her life. It can also be used derogatorally, such as calling Michael Jackson "Wacko Jacko".\n\nMadge is indeed usually a nickname for Margaret. It's used more commonly in England, so this may be an allusion to the fact that she is married to an English man and lives in London.\n\nBTW, her Kabbalah name is Esther. Esther was a Hebrew woman who married the king of Babylon (I think that was the country) and saved her people. She is the only woman to have a book in the Bible named after her.
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Genesis 4:16-18\n\nAnd Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden.\n\nAnd Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son Enoch.\n\nAnd unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.\n\n(It seems to me like there were more than just Adam & Eve, huh)
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What is your real name? If it is Elizabeth (liz) it comes from Hebrew, meaning "Pledged to God"
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Ok, here it goes:\n\n1.reading the book of esther-You have to read this book twise. Before and after the reading you say the "prayers" (I dunno how it is called in English).\n\n2."Mishloah Manot"- This is a package which has at least two types of food in it. People exchange them, in order to make happy even those who don't have smth to be happy about.\n\n3.Presents to the poor- On this holiday u help the poor, so they will be happy to.\n\n4.Gathering and happiness- The purim meal is one of the traditions.If I'm not mistaking, it should be done every day during the holiday.\n\n5.Reading the Tora- There is a prayor, and  also u can't be sad in the last two days of purim (14/3-15/3).\n\nNow theese are the purim traditions.\nI'll add that people celebrate Purim cuz the Jews were saved from extinction by Haman.U said u've read the book of Esther, so I won't tell u about it. I guess that's all the Info i can give ya', and I hope I've helped ya'! \n\n-Liza
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She came from the next valley, I think it was called the Valley of Vosgo.  \n\nDon't make the mistake of thinking Adam and Eve and their kids were the only ones around.  When God was making Adam and Eve, he was over in the next valley making Mick and Irma and their kids, and not long after he was in another area making Jess and Bess and their kids.  \n\nThe Bible only talks about Adam and Eve cause they are the ones whence proceeded the line that involved Abraham and his ilk.\n\nAbraham had wives and concubines and lived to a ripe old age.  Then came Isaac who was rather large and half blind, and recognized people by feeling their faces.  \n\nAnything else you want to know?
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That's small potatoes lol.  King Solomon had 1000 wives and 2000 concubimbos.  He is revered for his wisdom.
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THE POOR RAISED UP OUT OF THE DUST, AND THE BEGGAR LIFTED UP FROM THE DUNGHILL (Part 1)\nPreached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, on Lord’s Day Morning, August 20, 1843.\n"He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he hath set the world upon them."- 1Sa 2:8\nMOST of you are probably familiar, not only with the name of the person who uttered these words, but also with the circumstances under which they were spoken by her. But lest any should not immediately recollect the passage, I will just observe that they are the words of Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, and that the circumstances under which they were spoken, were when she brought her infant son, and presented him before the Lord, that he might be his for ever. Her heart, it appears, was then so enlarged, and her soul so comforted and strengthened by beholding her infant son as the manifested answer to her prayers, that she burst forth into that song of thanksgiving of which the text forms a portion.\n\nBut before I enter into the experimental meaning of the text, it may be desirable, with God’s blessing, to trace out a few leading particulars of Hannah’s case.\n\nI believe, that, in Scripture, there are typical characters, as well as what are more properly called "types", or typical things; and Hannah appears to me to have been one of these typical characters. By typical characters, in this sense, I mean, not in the same way as Aaron, or Solomon, were types of Christ, but certain persons whose history and experience are typical or representative of God’s dealings with his people, or of characters that should arise in the church. The history of Hannah affords us more than one instance of these typical characters. We read, for instance, 1Sa 1:1,2 that "Elkanah had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children." Elkanah seems to me to typify the Lord Jesus-I think we may fairly assume this without doing violence to the figure; and his two wives seem to represent the church, Peninnah the professing, and Hannah the possessing church. Let us see if the figure will bear us out in this interpretation. Peninnah, in type, represents the professing church. As having a form of godliness, and a name to live, she had a vast superiority outwardly over her rival, for she was fruitful, whilst Hannah was barren. This points out the superiority, in outward fruit, which many professors have over God’s spiritually-taught children. But we may observe that in Peninnah’s fruitfullness there was nothing manifested of a supernatural character. She had children in the common course of nature, as other married women have them; there was nothing peculiarly providential, nothing eminently striking, nothing miraculous; but all took place in the usual course.\n\nNow this strikingly represents the way in which mere professors of religion bring forth their good works. The fruits they produce are not wrought in them by miracle; they do not spring out of a supernatural operation upon their consciences; but they are brought forth, from time to time, in the mere course of nature, without any galling disappointment on account of previous barrenness, without any earnest cry that the Lord would work powerfully in their soul, without any manifested answer to the prayer that he would make them fruitful in every good word and work. But these good works and religious performances, on which they pride themselves so highly, are brought forth by them in the usual course of nature, by the mere exertion of the creature, utterly independent of any work of the Holy Ghost upon their heart.\n\nBut this fruitfullness of Peninnah much galled and pained her barren rival, as the zeal, devotedness, piety and amiability, evide
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she refused the recumbant sexual position benaeth adam, and he tried to compel her by force, so she spake the secret name of god and rose up and flew away to the banks of the red sea where she coupled with demons and bore thousands of demon children. God sent three angels to bring her back to adam, savey sansevy and smengeloff, but she made a deal with them instead and to this day their names can be used to banish her. she has hair red as a rose and her adornments number forty, minus one, around her neck she wears all the jewels of the orient. It is the mystery of these adornments that she appears to have arms and legs, for god cut off her arms and legs after she tempted eve. She has two children that she came to have by herself, a daughter, also named lilith with dark hair who is the queen and mother of all djinn and a son who is known only as the "flame faced prince" she arose bteween adam and eve because adam had tried to couple with eve at the time of her menstrual impurity and from the filth formed of the blasphemous union she arose and fertilized eve before adam, thus concieving cain--want to know more?- e-mail me
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Probably Jude... although I love reading it aloud, and it is quite powerful.  Actually I'd just like to trim the bit where Satan is arguing over Moses' body and the Enoch reference.\n BTW the Book of Enoch is not mention in the Old Testament, although he is mentioned (Genesis) and 'walked with God' implying he 'ascended' bodily into Heaven.  The book of Enoch is a much later writing, and was clearly not written by Enoch himself, which is part of the reason its left out of the gospels.  (It constitutes as part of the Psuedepigrepha)  Much of Enoch's fame stems from traditions, that include his transformation into the Metatron (the voice fo God).\n  I'd also be inclined to suggest a different version if you are having trouble with Paul.  Although bits can be very complicated even at the best of times.  The other thing to try: read them aloud, many of the letters were intended to be read aloud to congregations.
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and one more time those who know nothing of Judaism or the Bible give answers....\n\nAdaM and Eve were not Jews, showing that Gd cares for all people and not just the Jews. \n\nThe first Jew was Abraham whose descendants, and those who over the last 4,000 years converted to Judaism, were Jews. Even in the Bible, Mordechai, in the Book of Esther, who was NOT from the tribe of Judah, is called a Jew, so one does not have to be from the tribe of Judah to be a Jew:::\n\n          Esther 2:5  Now in Shushan the palace there was \n          a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son  \n          of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a \n          Benjamite; \n\nBut Judaism, the covenant Gd made with Abraham, reconfirmed with His covenant with Isaac, reconfirmed with His covenant with Jacob, and on and on, began with Abraham.
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He was the father of the Isrealite nation. His son Isaac was born when both he and his wife were way too old to have kids, and she was physically unable to have children. Yet he always had faith that God would keep His promise.
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Esther 8:9 - Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.