Esther 2:5
“Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;”
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Read in Esther 2Meaning
Mordecai's Jewish identity becomes crucial to the plot because it connects Esther's private family story with the later threat against the Jewish people.