I am Vashti, the boldest of queens,
Pretty at forty, as ever in my 'teens.
Everybody feared me, called me Queen of Spades,
Most of all my slaves, pretty Jewish maids.
How I drove them crazy, worked them to the bone,
I had no pity for them, my heart was made of stone.
The king made a feast, for hundred eighty days,
Till he lay in the gutter, his mind in a daze.
His drunken guests he promised, yea, he'd sworn,
To make me dance before them, like a slave born!
But I got a pimple on my nose, and water in my knees,
How could I entertain them with the greatest of ease?
So the foolish king many tears did shed
As he led me to the scaffold to cut off my pretty head.
From "Lots of Purim", Published and Copyright by Kehot Publication Society
Illustration by Mendy Lewis
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Naomi
March 8, 2014
The Importance of Vashti Not to take any of the glory from Esther who was a heroine, vey strong and brave, we have to teach our children about Vashti, a liberated woman. She wouldn't let her husband walk all over her and use her for his own purposes. Women are not to be paraded in front of other people for their husband's pleasure. We must teach our daughter's and our sons the virtues of being brave and strong and know their boundaries and not let anyone make them do anything they don't feel comfortable doing. Reply
bob anderson
bobville, b.o.b
September 27, 2010
kool this is so kool to read Reply
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teal aviv
March 4, 2009
purim story I love the story because it is fun to read a story of the purim Reply
dfgdfgdfg dfgdfgdfg
September 28, 2008
this pic
Vashti=ugliness
she probably was better looking, but then people wouldn't like it that she was killed because of her drunk husband
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re Importance of Vashti She may have been liberated in the way you describe, however she enslaved other women and mistreated them. I would not follow her example.