A few questions about Megilat Esther.
(1)Esther was living with Mordechai. The government officials that took her could not figure out that he was Jewish? They knew Mordechai was Jewish because he told them so.
(2) The verse says: "When virgins were gathered a second time." Why was there a second time? For the king had found a queen-i.e., Esther. What was the point of keeping on gathering new virgins?[Unless the king just happened to develop a taste for virgins like Mao Dezong or Beria?]
(3) The king gave the house of Haman to Esther. What was the point of appointing Mordechai over it.?
(4)The verse says Esther told the king "What Mordechai was to her." What was that? Her uncle or her husband as the Midrash says?
[I think Mordechai might have been the advisor of the Persian king [Xerxes] that invaded Greece and the 300 Spartans. See the history in Herodotus]. Xerxes had a recurrent dream warning him that he must invade Greece; and his advisor whose name sounds suspiciously like Mordechi agreed.
