Child Holocaust Survivor Describes Rescue by Righteous…
Lea Paz, née Weitzner, was born in 1930 in Lwow. This is her story.
Afterward, Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the God of Israel: Let my people go that they may celebrate a festival for Me in the wilderness.” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should heed Him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.” - Exodus 5:1-2
The Book of Esther is only one of two books in the entire Bible to be named after a female, the other being the Book of Ruth.
Each year at Purim, Queen Vashti gets her brief moment in the limelight before being replaced by Esther as Queen of the Persian Empire.