Living Beyond the End - Esther’s Journey from Trauma to Resilience

The Scroll of Esther teaches us how to Live Beyond the End.  Esther’s Journey was a journey from Trauma to Resilience.   Esther provides the framework to recover from any type of human suffering including the worst atrocities that have plagued mankind such as the Holocaust.  The essence of Esther's trauma is found within the text of the Scroll of Esther which I will expound upon in this podcast.  [Esther 2:7-8, 10-11, 16-17 RSV] "7 He had brought up Hadas'sah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother; the maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and her mother died, Mor'decai adopted her as his own daughter. 8 So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many maidens were gathered in Susa the capital in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of Hegai who had charge of the women. ... 10 Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mor'decai had charged her not to make it known. 11 And every day Mor'decai walked in front of the court of the harem, to learn how Esther was and how she fared. ... 16 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasu-e'rus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti." The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, systematically murdered six million European Jews during World War II.  How can we begin to explain such atrocities?  The Scroll of Esther is bound up in trauma. It has helped the Jews survive the trauma of Nazi anti-Semitism through the emergence of a new Jewish identity.   You will also emerge victorious from your personal traumas with a new sense of identity through the Scroll of Esther.    You are invited to join us for “Living Beyond the End - Esther’s Journey from Trauma to Resilience”