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Based on Vashti's descent from a King who was responsible for the destruction of the temple as well as on her unhappy fate, the Midrash presents Vashti as wicked and vain. Since Vashti is ordered to appear before the king on the seventh day of the feast, the rabbis argued that Vashti enslaved Jewish women and forced them to work on the Sabbath.
When Queen Vashti, Ahasuerus' consort, refused his order to display herself at the king's banquet, Memucan advised the king to depose her and replace her with a more worthy wife. Memucan further advised the king to issue a decree throughout his domain declaring his action, so that all women would learn a lesson and honor and respect their husbands.
Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. [6] She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, [7] who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.
Unlike her older sister, Vashti conforms to most of the female gender stereotypes. Viveka sees her sister as an ongoing pressure to conform to cultural ideals. In what seems to be a separate plot at the start, a French woman named Anick Prakash moves away from her parents in France to marry a Trinidadian man named Nayan.
Vashti is a 1879 oil on canvas painting by the English painter Edwin Long depicting a character in the book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Long was greatly influenced by the paintings of Velasquez and other Spanish masters, and his earlier pictures.
Vashti’s ascent in a sport she was practically built for has very much been a family affair. She followed in her older brother’s footsteps. Now her younger sister, Grace, is following in hers.
Abigail – wife of the wicked Nabal, who became a wife of David after Nabal's death. I Samuel 25 [2] Abihail #1 – wife of Abishur and mother of Ahban and Molid. I Chronicles [3] Abihail #2 – wife of king Rehoboam II Chronicles [4] Abishag – concubine of aged King David. I Kings [5] Abital – one of King David's wives II Samuel; I ...
TOKYO — Vashti Cunningham finished tied for sixth in the Olympic women's high jump, clearing 1.96 meters (6 feet, 4.3 inches) and failing to clear 1.98 meters. ... (6-7.5), one of only 33 women ...