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In reply to by Tresha S.

To Tresha S. The Targum Sheni offers a version to Your question:

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Esther in the Harem

The midrash relates that Esther hid from AhasuerusÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s agents who sought women for the king. She succeeded in remaining concealed for four years, but was eventually found and brought to the royal palace. Unlike the other women, who wanted to be chosen, Esther tried to evade the king, but she was the one picked to be queen. This shows that her selection was part of the divine plan; Esther was meant to rule in order to bring deliverance to all Israel (Seder Olam Rabbah 29; Midrash Panim Aherim, version B, para. 20).

& the The Targum Sheni say

When Mordecai heard that virgins were being sought, he took and hid Esther from the officers of King Ahasuerus, who went out to seek the virgins so that they should not come and lead her away. He enclosed one room within another room so that the messengers of the king should not see her. Now when his messengers used to pass by, the gentile girls would dance and show off their beauty through the windows. Thereupon the messengers of the king would go out and bring many virgins from the provinces. Moreover, the messengers of the king knew of Esther, so when they observed that Esther was not among these virgins, they said to one another: 'We are wasting our energy in the provinces. There is here in our province a girl beautiful in looks and pleasing as well as amiable in appearance, more so than all of the virgins which we have brought.' So when Esther was sought but not found, they informed King Ahasuerus. When he heard [of it], he wrote an order that every virgin who shall hide herself from before his messengers, there is only one decree for her -- that she be executed. So when Mordecai heard of the order, he panicked and brought out Esther, his father's brother's daughter, into the street (Targum Sheni 2: 8).

& Esther Rabbah has Mordecai ask:

'How is it possible that this righteous maiden should be married to an uncircumcised man? It must be because some great calamity is going to befall Israel and they will be delivered through her (Esther Rabbah 6: 6).

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