there was a plot hatched to exterminate her people. the jewishle people. and she seemed to be oblivious to it until her cousin mordechai, who was like a father figure to esther, madeo her aware of it and he said, look, i believe in deliverance can come from someone somewhere else, but who knows that you've not been placed where youws are for such a time as this and then make a lot of times, you know, we're in this difficult situation and we're thinking about how can i getng out of this ? did it ever occur to you or me or any of us that god put you where you are for a reason? it's been said if you see a turtle on a fence post, you know, he didn't get there by himself and i think god places us where he wants us to be and you know, that's a choice. you could stay silent and maybe see her people exterminated. it was a huge act of anti-semitism, sort of a precursor to the holocaust in her way. but she said, hey, if i perish, i perish. and she went for it and becauses of her courageous efforts, she saved her people. p