“I can’t sit down here waiting like a sitting duck for the pirates to come for us. I’m going up to help the sailors”
T
error hung over the heads of everyone on board the ship. They knew that at any moment the black masts of a pirate ship could appear on the horizon. The pirates were notorious for selling anyone whom they didn’t kill as slaves to barbaric island dwellers.
Mordechai and Esther enclosed themselves inside their tiny cabin and poured out their hearts to Hashem.
“It will all be for the good,” Mordechai told Esther one night, after hours of reciting Tehillim. “Everything will be good.”
“How can you know such a thing?” Esther’s face was tearstained and her eyes were puffy and red. “Do you know the future?”
Create a free account to keep reading.
