There are no new meanings. What happens is that the fine details are shown to match the basic simple meanings that can be comprehended just on their face - no expertise, dogma necessary.
With more observation, though, there it is again. And again. And again. The same messgae. The scroll of Esther is about seeing the work of God without His name anywhere, on the surface anyway.
His name is who He is. His character, His work, His certain style. He has a particular hallmark, signature.
Throughout the long, 2000 year history of this exile, the existence of God has been evident by the continued existence of Jews, in spite of the "odds" that they should have made their way into the dustbin of history.
The Megillah is a little story about dispersed Jews managing not only to survive in spite of a decree from the palace itself, but also evidence of the extent to which an evil plot is turned to the contrary in their favor. The concept of "coincidence" is what needs to be tossed into the dustbin.
God is everywhere in the story, starting with a certain Jew who overheard a plot. Haman thought he was in control, but he was Trumped right and left by his own ego and hate. He was wandering around in the palace [such that he was the one paged by the king] because he was eager to make use of the gallows he had constructed for that certain Jew. If he hadn't have been there, and wouldn't have jumped to conclusions about who was to be honored (himself), he wouldn't have been the one personally leading Mordecai around to be honored.
This should wake people up that in the place where God is never mentioned much less welcomed or honored (the political realm), an outsider named Trump somehow ended up "winning a beauty contest".
People ought to be staring at the text to find meaning in every passage! Because there it is, all over the place. The same message about who is in charge, whom to trust.
An interesting detail about the name Haman is that it is spelled out like this:
הא מם נון
The word in red is amun (אֵמוּן), trust.
Funny stuff.
Another thing that gets missed about God being in charge of every detail of history, is that He's not bound by time, either. If people truly believed that, they'd realize that He can take those "fanciful" tales in the Zohar and midrashim, and have them play out as modern allegories with literal meanings, especially as they concern the Redemption.
If Haman could conveniently yet unwittingly build his own gallows, then the Jews could build their own Redemption narrative without even realizing it.
After all, look what (who) is in those final letter(s) of the word Jew.
In these things the entire world will know who is the Lord.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah is a good time to point out what time it is, that the end is enwedged in the beginning.
It's like wondering what Jonah has to do with Yom Kippur, a "day like Purim", yom ki-Purim. People just don't appreciate puns on souls, soles. Mari-time history. On and on.
wiki sez:
"Adult soles lie on their left (blind) sides on the sea floor, often covered in mud, which in combination with their dark colours, makes them hard to spot."
You’re posting now because Yom Kippur is Ki-Purim, “Like Purim” ie, Purim is even “higher” than Yom Kippur, so to speak.
Interesting points.
Who is Matthew though? ;)