Our Masters taught:
“… Abraham, our father, had a daughter, her name was Esther.”
“… Esther, was ‘Daughter of Abraham our father’, that she was.”
The Masters want us to understand that all the attributes that Abraham would have liked to see in his daughter, the attributes of the ideal Abrahamic woman, are found in Esther.
-Purim
The festival dedicated to Esther on the 15th of the month of Adar. Purim is a festival of joy, which asks us to celebrate the Divine Reversal, of Evil for Good, by the story of the miraculous redemption of a whole community which, the Text tells us, extended “from India to ‘to Africa ..’.
Esther is the heroine of this story.
His real name is Hadassa. Like many women in exile, she is called by a foreign name.
This new name, Esther is Persian. It comes from the Persian myth of
Ishtar and Marduk, which is a version of the Egyptian Isis-Osiris principle.
Aïcha is the Arabic version of the same Egyptian name “Aïshet.”
Hadassa Esther Ishtar had preserved her culture and identity in the middle of ancient Persia.
The people of Esther are called Jews, Yehudim, from India to Africa.
It is a scattered people who already in Esther’s time uses many languages, including variants of Aramaic, such as the Haoussa language, the Amazigh languages, spoken from Djerba to the Niger River, Tigray and G ‘ in Ethiopia, and even the Arabic language in Yemen already.
In this people there are people of all skin colors.
It is a woman of this people from Abraham the Nomad, the Great Shepherd of Flocks, who becomes Queen of Persia and manages to save millions of innocent people from a worldwide plot against them.
It is by her attributes of woman that Esther saves her people, as Sarah once saved her ancestor Abraham from Pharaoh and Abimelek: by sacrificing herself.
Because as the story of Purim shows us, as Sarah and Abraham have said to be brother and sister to save themselves and to preserve future generations, Esther and Mordechay did the same, and kept their secret family ties to save the present generations.
So Abraham’s daughter, in the sense that Esther had to go through the same trials as her ancestors on her scale.
But also Abraham’s daughter, in her mission to the world, who manifests the message of the Gd Unique to all humanity.
This is evidenced by the unity between humans reflecting the Unity of the Divine Creator when those who believe in His Oneness unite, join in prayers. By miraculous intervention they see how the decrees against them are overthrown, the darkness becomes light, the days of tears change into days of joy.
Esther today :
The woman in exile is subject to permanent attacks, she is taken by force, against her hostage greed, by the mentality of exile. She must change her name, evolve in a space that pays no attention to the nuances of her original culture. For this environment, whether it comes from the tribe of Benjamin or Judah does not matter. For them, they are all called Jews. For a woman, be it Peule or Mossi, Malinke or Yoruba has no importance in the eyes of the European community, she is a black to them like other African women.
To fight to preserve all its nuances, is for the woman in exile, a battle of every day.
Not to be understood and accepted, in his own words, is his daily reality.
However, she must remember the signs that are in her and around her, because she has a mission, that of saving her nation from oblivion, and destruction that oblivion announces.
The woman is a responsible and conscious being, who knows that as high as she gets into the system of exile, she must always remember that it was for this mission to save her that Heaven sent her at this point, and not for his personal glory.
In this title she deserves to be called Queen.
Purim: Esther or the woman in Exile
