“And they rested on the fourteenth day” (Esther 9:17)
How did the Noach manage to get himself included in the text of the Megillah?
R’ Shlomah Alkabetz (Manos HaLevi) quotes a Medrash Pliah, that when Haman’s wife Zeresh advised him to erect a pole 50 amos high on which to hang his enemy, Mordechai, Haman searched everywhere and could not find such a large pole. His son Parshandosa, however, remembered that on one of his travels to the land of Turkey, he encountered the teivah [Ark] of Noach, which had landed on Har Ararat. He travelled there again and retrieved a long piece of wood, 50 amos in length, and brought it home for his father’s use. In the end, it was this very same pole that was used to hang Haman, and his ten sons. As a result, while following Hashem’s command to build a teivah many years earlier, Noach played a large part in the Purim miracle as well. Shouldn’t he then be mentioned?
