Reading Megillat Esther More Closely

In-Person event presentation by Ilan Kogan

About the Event:
We will be looking at several verses from the Book of Esther and seeing what questions could be gleaned from those verses. Several verses in the Book of Esther utilize double language, missing or additional letters, and sometimes what seems to be contradictory information. After discussing possible questions that could be found in those verses, we will look at the commentary on each of those verses that answered at least one question from each verse. We will be able to see that the Rabbis were not dismissive of these "abnormalities" in the text, but in fact, recognized their importance and attempted to explain them.

About the Speaker:

Ilan Kogan is a first-year student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. Ilan is from Queens, NY. He has a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from CUNY Queens College. In addition to spending his time studying at YCT, he also runs a Tik Tok account detailing his life as a Rabbinical Student, as well as containing humorous content about Judaism and questions and answers about Yiddishkeit. Ilan currently lives on the Upper West Side in New York City.

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