While the king holds a magnificent banquet for his princes, nobles and servants, she holds a separate banquet for the women. She is introduced as the queen of persia, married to king ahasuerus, who is traditionally identified with xerxes i. King xerxes approved the decree and queen vashti was thereby stripped of her title and banished from the king’s presence forever, to make way for someone more “worthy” of the title of queen.
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In her short story vashti and the angel gabriel, rabbi jill hammer imagines the angel discovering the queen’s deeply spiritual side
Gabriel is so touched he removes the ineffable name of god from the book of esther and entrusts it to vashti, who thus ascends to ineffable heights as she removes herself from ahasuerus’ sight.
According to esther 1:11, queen vashti was told to appear “wearing her royal crown,” and one rabbinical tradition interprets this as the king’s instruction to wear only her royal crown—in other words, she was told to appear in the nude. Vashti, the wife of ahasuerus, was banished when her husband summoned her to appear before the men at their revelry Vashti is a prominent figure in the book of esther, which is part of the ketuvim (writings) in the hebrew bible and the old testament in the christian bible
