[:en]Thoughts from Esther 3[:]

[:en]Haman was elevated to a seat of honor higher than all the other nobles.  All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to him except Mordecai.  So having learned that Modecai was a Jew, he enticed the king to issue a decree to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews on the 13th of the 12 month of Adar.  The edict was issued as a law and dispatched to all the provinces.[:]