The clue to this linkage is wine - the wine which brought a king to a drunken rage against a rebellious queen and the wine which another queen, concealing her Jewish identity, served both husband and enemy at the climatic banquet where she successfully pleaded for her people's salvation. If the link is wine then it is wine which one must indulge in order to remember and reflect upon this invisible thread which weaves such disparate events into a miraculous tapestry of divine intervention. And the level of indulgence must be one that rejects the normal approaches of discernment, that abandons the logic of social and political analysts and seeks the divine hand in the workings of history. CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE.....