The Chasam Soifer in Toras Moshe at the end of
Parshas Tetzaveh writes about a different character in the Megillah potentially
being a Jew. On the day that Haman died Achashveiroish gave Esther Haman’s
house as it says in 8:1 א בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא, נָתַן הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ
לְאֶסְתֵּר הַמַּלְכָּה, אֶת-בֵּית הָמָן, צֹרֵר היהודיים (הַיְּהוּדִים);
וּמָרְדֳּכַי, בָּא לִפְנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ--כִּי-הִגִּידָה אֶסְתֵּר, מַה הוּא-לָהּ
ב וַיָּסַר הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת-טַבַּעְתּוֹ, אֲשֶׁר הֶעֱבִיר מֵהָמָן,
וַיִּתְּנָהּ, לְמָרְדֳּכָי; וַתָּשֶׂם אֶסְתֵּר אֶת-מָרְדֳּכַי, עַל-בֵּית הָמָן Esther then gives over Haman’s house to Mordechai. In
the first Perek of Maseches Kiddushin it says that there are laws of
inheritance by non Jews. The estate of Haman should have fallen to his
descendents. The Gemara learns Yerushah from Eisav because Eisav Yarshuned Har
Sai’ir. So where does it come that Esther gives the whole Bais Haman to
Mordechai?
The Chasam Soifer gives a very simple Teretz.
Mordechai came to Haman with a Shtar and said, once upon a time you didn’t have
enough food, and you came to me for food, and I told you that I will not give
you food unless you sell yourself to me as an Eved. So the Gemara relates that
Haman sold himself to Mordechai as an Eved. So now when Mordechai showed Haman
the Shtar, Haman was enraged. We know that an Eved K’nani that belongs to a Jew
is a Jew and is Chayuv in Mitzvois K’nashim.
So the Chasam Soifer says, not only was Haman a Yid
but he was also the Eved K’nani of Mordechai. So everything that Haman owned
belonged to Mordechai. Of course Haman was powerful and didn’t behave like an
Eved to Mordechai. However, Al Pi Din, Haman was a Yid and belonged to
Mordechai.
The Chasam Soifer says this is B’feirush in the
Megillah. In 3:1 – 3:4 it says א אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים
הָאֵלֶּה, גִּדַּל הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ אֶת-הָמָן בֶּן-הַמְּדָתָא
הָאֲגָגִי--וַיְנַשְּׂאֵהוּ; וַיָּשֶׂם, אֶת-כִּסְאוֹ, מֵעַל, כָּל-הַשָּׂרִים
אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֹ ב וְכָל-עַבְדֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲשֶׁר-בְּשַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶךְ, כֹּרְעִים
וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוִים לְהָמָן--כִּי-כֵן, צִוָּה-לוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ; וּמָרְדֳּכַי--לֹא
יִכְרַע, וְלֹא יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה ג וַיֹּאמְרוּ עַבְדֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ,
אֲשֶׁר-בְּשַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶךְ--לְמָרְדֳּכָי: מַדּוּעַ אַתָּה עוֹבֵר, אֵת
מִצְוַת הַמֶּלֶךְ ד וַיְהִי, באמרם (כְּאָמְרָם) אֵלָיו יוֹם וָיוֹם,
וְלֹא שָׁמַע, אֲלֵיהֶם; וַיַּגִּידוּ לְהָמָן, לִרְאוֹת הֲיַעַמְדוּ דִּבְרֵי
מָרְדֳּכַי--כִּי-הִגִּיד לָהֶם, אֲשֶׁר-הוּא יְהוּדִי Mordechai would not bow down to Haman. So the Avdei Hamelech
asked Mordechai why don’t you listen to what the King requested. The Posuk
doesn’t seem to answer this, however, Mordechai told them I should bow to
Haman? He is my Eved and not only that, but he is a Yid. As it says כִּי-הִגִּיד
לָהֶם, אֲשֶׁר-הוּא יְהוּדִי This is how the Chasam Soifer explains the Sin’a
between Haman and Mordechai.
We all know that Haman and his 10 children hung on
the same gallows. The Gemara actually says this and we sing it in the Maoz
Tzur. Haman was hung in Choidesh Nissan either on the 16th or 17th day. That
was the time of the Mishteh of Esther with Haman and Achashveiroish. Haman’s
children were killed first on the 14th of Adar. So it comes out that there were
11 months between the hanging of Haman and the hanging of his children. So how
is it that we all have pictures of Haman and his children on the same tree? Unless
we say that Haman hung up there for 11 months.
If you hold that Haman
was a Yid then there is a Lav of Loi Salin that you have to bury someone
immediately. So this Kasha remains.
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