Once I encountered an atheist who smugly, dismissively, challenged me to show him a single proof of the existence of G-D. Just one. “The Jewish People,” I answered, “their mere existence, let alone their repeated prosperity, time and again, under the worst of circumstances, is proof to satisfy the greatest skeptic.”
You reminded me about God "not being mentioned" in the Megillah, but of course in the fine orchestration of all the "random" details, He's all over the place. And the scroll of Esther being the place where the words Jew and Jews appear prominently...
The history of the world involves nations desiring and conspiring to wipe out the Jews. Really what it is, is their intent to blot out the face of God from the face of the earth.. to eradicate the God who supposedly does not exist. To see a Jew is to see the existence of God, and so it's "the Jews" this and "the Jews" that, always some accusation. The enemies of the Jews (enemies of God) never stop railing against "the Jews."
Back to God never being mentioned in the Megillah, the place of the reversal of fortunes, where Wile E. Haman was hanged by his own ACME device that he had constructed for Mordecai "the Jew".
The game of Hangman is about guessing the right letters...
The traditional analysis of the letter hei is that it is a composite of the letters dalet and yud. That isn't much of an analysis, as it is simply evident by the letter shapes:
ד + י = ה
So all these complainers and deniers keep yapping about the Jews, such that the word is always on their lips. And then there's the matter of no one really knowing how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton. It got lost somewhere along the way. No Temple, no Holy of Holies... no high priest to pronounce it once a year. Yet somehow the "final hei" will be restored, which represents the kingdom and the Shekhina, being the Divine Presence (the face of God).
Yehudi ---> YHVH
יהודי
<---
יהוה
I appreciate that a masterful irony would entail all the Jew-hater atheists spending every waking and dreaming hour saying and obsessing over the name of God who doesn't exist. Talk about secrets of the universe revealed from the lowest, trashiest places.
Pretty hilarious.
YHVH = JEW. They'd never guess, so they'd self-destruct. :)
"Jew", it's written throughout the Megillah. Makes perfect sense.
Thank you very much for your illuminating post. I enjoyed it, and will assimilate the message. Thanks.