Esther 5:1 Kabbala: Zohar, Sha'arei Kedusha & Maaseh Rokeach

You may say that Esther has a bad reputation (by saying) that she was defiled with Ahasuerus, yet she was worthy that the Holy Spirit, (Malchut), would be clothed in her as written, "Esther put on her royal apparel, מַלְכוּת" (Esther 5:1). Yet the Holy One, blessed be He, said, "I am Hashem, that is My name, and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to carved idols" (Isaiah 42:8). The Holy Spirit is the Shechinah and is a name that was clothed with Esther.

In Zohar it states,⁵⁷⁰Zohar II 59a “There is not a single breath that does not possess a voice and create a spirit. All the words that a person speaks which are not for the sake of serving the Holy One, blessed is He, create a spirit that carries and travels around in the world and when the soul leaves him upon death, that spirit is hurled at him in the torments of the grave, like a stone flung from a slingshot (Kaf HaKela). This is the meaning of the verse,⁵⁷¹Samuel I 25:29 ‘may He hurl away the soul of your enemies as one shoots a stone from a slingshot (Kaf HaKela).’” It also states in Zohar,⁵⁷²Zohar III 183b “From the verse,⁵⁷³Esther 5:1 ‘And Esther donned royal garments,’ we learn that any person who guards his mouth and tongue, merits to don the garment of the spirit of holiness and Divine Inspiration (Ru’ach HaKodesh).’”⁵⁷⁴Just as Esther guarded her mouth (Esther 2:20) “and did not reveal her kindred or her people, as Mordechai had instructed her.”

Another correct reason that the erasure of Amalek is 166 words in the Torah and that there are 166 verses in the Scroll of Esther can be said as follows: It is known that Esther is the secret of the Divine Presence, the trait of Kingship (Malkhut) in the secret of, "and Esther wore royal (malkhut) garments" (Esther 5:1). And this is the secret of (Chullin 139b:12), "From where in the Torah is Esther? 'And I will surely hide (haster astir)' (Deuteronomy 31:17–18)." And the word, astir, spelled full adds up to [a numerical equivalent] of 671, like the count of the name, Ado-nai, with its filling (each letter being spelled out), as is known (in the same way that 166 corresponded to an alternative count of the parallel name of God). And in my humble opinion, it appears that it is for this reason that there are ten sections in the Scroll, to complete the number of Esther, [to] Esther 10. For the Scroll is called the Scroll of Esther - and with the additional ten, it adds up to 671, to indicate her virtue, as she was with the secret of the higher Kingship, Ado-nai, with its filling