{"id":30713,"date":"2008-03-19T19:35:10","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/purim\/the_ous_nach_yomi_megilat_esther_part_viii\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:29:06","slug":"the_ous_nach_yomi_megilat_esther_part_viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_ous_nach_yomi_megilat_esther_part_viii\/","title":{"rendered":"The OU&#8217;s Nach Yomi: Megilat Esther (Part VIII)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the king just as interested as Haman in destroying the Jews? Did he know which meaning of the word &#8220;l\u2019abed&#8221; Haman Meant? The disconnect between inside &amp; outside palace.<\/p>\n<p>The OU&#8217;s Nach Yomi presents Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom on Esther. 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