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The Destruction of Babylonia, Detailed:  R. Yonatan’s Petihta to Megillat Esther

JL;DR SUMMARY Tamar Weissman and Batnadiv HaKarmi explore Rabbi Yonatan's petihta on the Book of Esther, focusing on the fall of Babylonia as a central theme in its narrative. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryExileMidrashRedemptionPersiaMegillahEstherBabyloniaR. YonatanPetihta

Places mentioned

Shushan, Khuzestan, Iran
"This is surprising, as the Megillah is emphatically set in Shushan, capital of the Persian empire of the sixth century BCE, which benevolently ruled the vast stretches of the Near and Far East."
Jerusalem, Israel
"He has charged [pkd] me to build a temple for Him in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:2)."
Judea, Jerusalem, Israel
"Ravager of Judea."
India
"Persian kingdom is introduced in the Megillahs opening verse: Ahasuerus reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia (Esther 1:1)."
Ethiopia
"Persian kingdom is introduced in the Megillahs opening verse: Ahasuerus reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia (Esther 1:1)."

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