וּמָרְדֳּכַ֞י יָצָ֣א ׀ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ בִּלְב֤וּשׁ מַלְכוּת֙ תְּכֵ֣לֶת וָח֔וּר וַעֲטֶ֤רֶת זָהָב֙ גְּדוֹלָ֔ה וְתַכְרִ֥יךְ בּ֖וּץ וְאַרְגָּמָ֑ן וְהָעִ֣יר שׁוּשָׁ֔ן צָהֲלָ֖ה וְשָׂמֵֽחָה׃
Mordekhai keluar dari hadapan raja dengan pakaian kerajaan berwarna biru dan putih, dengan mahkota emas yang besar, serta jubah dari linen halus dan kain ungu; dan kota Susan bersorak-sorai dan bersukacita.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“Mordecai left the king’s presence” [8:15]. Mordecai left in clothes that a king used to wear. One asks a question. Why did they make banquets in all the cities and in Shushan they made no banquet? The answer is that Mordecai feared that, heaven forbid, the Jews should not be killed by the Amalekites. Therefore, he did not make a banquet, but only afterwards when he saw that the Amalekites had killed no Jews, then he made banquets. There was great rejoicing in all the lands where the letters came. Many gentiles converted because they were afraid of Mordecai.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
The Jews gathered in all the cities to kill the Amalekites and nobody opposed the Jews. They feared the Jews. All the high officials esteemed the Jews and bowed before the Jews, since Mordecai was important in the king’s house and his voice was heard in the whole world. The Jews killed the Amalekites as much as they wanted. In Shushan they killed five hundred men, in addition to all of Haman’s children. One asks a question here. Why is it not written that the Jews assembled in Shushan when they assembled in other cities? The answer is that because the king was in Shushan the Jews did not need to fear the Amalekites. That is why they did not assemble in Shushan. When a Jew encountered an Amalekite, he killed the Amalekite. One asks a question. Why does Scripture have to say that five hundred men were killed and were destroyed? It is obvious that when they are killed, they are also destroyed. The answer is that the five hundred men were all important officials. The custom is that when one kills an important official in the war, he is displayed to all the people. That is, they should see the revenge, that an important official has been killed. However, here they killed many officials and they were all destroyed. That is to say, they did not display which officials had been killed. However, they killed the children of Haman with the sword and before their souls departed, Haman’s children were hanged.
Rashi
And a cloak of linen. A wrap of linen, a shawl in which to enwrap oneself.