אל תפל דבר מכל אשר דברת
“Do exactly as you described, don’t change anything.” (Esther 6:10)
Achashveirosh specified clearly what Haman was to do for Mordechai, and no one would dare violate the King’s order. So why was it necessary to repeat, “Do exactly as you described, don’t change anything”?
The Shaar Bas Rabbim explains: Haman advised Achashveirosh that the proper way to honor a man whom the King especially wanted to honor was to “Dress him in the royal robe that the King has worn, and to ride him on a horse that the King has ridden, and to place the royal crown on his head” (6:8). When Achashveirosh heard the mention of the word “crown,” his face reddened, and Haman did not refer to the crown any more in his conversation. Nevertheless, when Mordechai was paraded in the city square, he was wearing the crown, for the King’s instructions to Haman were, “Hurry, get the robe and the horse as you have said, and do all this for Mordechai the Jew.” In addition, he told him, “Do exactly as you described, don’t change anything.” This was an allusion to placing the crown on Mordechai’s head. Being unhappy about it, he did not mention it directly, but alluded to it in a way that Haman would understand.
The Targum Sheini writes that he instructed him to go to his treasuries and retrieve the golden crown which was brought for him from Macedonia, the one which he wore on the first day of his ascending to the throne. When Esther saw Mordechai dressed in royal garb with the kingly crown on his head, she gave praise to Hashem for answering him in his time of agony and said to Mordechai, “You have now witnessed the fulfillment of what is written:מקים מעפר דל מאשפת ירים אביון להושיב עם נדיבים וכסא כבוד ינחלם - ‘He raises the needy from the dirt; from the trash heaps He lifts the destitute, to sit with the nobles and to endow them with honor’”.
