Эстер 3:1 Комментарий: Rashi & Tze'enah Ure'enah

After these events. That this remedy was created as a salvation for Yisroel.

King [Achashveirosh] conferred eminence on Haman. For the Holy One Blessed Is He, creates a remedy for Yisroel’s blow before He brings the blow upon them.¹Maseches Megillah 13b.

“After these things” [3:1]. The anger of the king subsided and Ahasuerus raised up and ennobled Haman above all of his ministers. The Holy One sends the cure before the malady.²⁹B. Megillah, 13b. That is to say, it was first inscribed that Mordecai had protected the king from death and only afterwards did Haman become important. Mordecai would protect all of Israel with his informing about the ministers who wanted to poison the king. The Holy One first makes an evildoer important and then He kills him and he disappears from the world. It is a parable. A donkey, a horse and a pig belonged to one owner. The donkey said to the horse: we work day and night and get little to eat. The pig does not work at all and he gets fed much good food. The horse answered him: you are a fool. As soon as Christmas or Easter will come, the pig will be killed. That is why they give him much to eat. It was the same with Haman as with the pig. He was made important and he will soon be killed.