Michael Ledeen has an interesting column on the Book of Esther. I particularly liked this bit:
“It reminds me of one of Golda Meir’s bons mots. She was once asked how Israel managed to defeat enemies who vastly outnumbered the Jews. “There are two ways,” she replied. “There’s the natural way, and the miraculous way. The natural way is that God sends a miracle and we win. The miraculous way is that we win by ourselves.” Esther’s story therefore recounts a miracle.”
