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It's Time To Step Up
The first miracle of Megillas Esther is Esther herself. Nowhere else in the Torah do we find a story quite like hers: a woman dragged against her will into a gilded cage, who in a single moment overturns her fate and takes command of her people.
When Mordechai rouses her to rise and fight against the decree, she reacts with astonishment? The orphan who never knew her parents?! The outcast whom the king has not summoned for thirty days?! The woman living a life fraught with challenges?!
But something happens, and Esther spreads her wings. From being acted upon, she becomes the one taking action, setting the entire world into motion. First, she moves Mordechai into action, as the megillah stunningly states: "And Mordechai did all that Esther commanded him" She is crowned as the leader of the people, then, she shifts her focus to dealing with Achashverosh and Haman.
