Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

Abba_S, what I said before is from my own but look at the MB s’k 12 there saying we should not make this brocho on a president or constitutional monarch who does not have life and death power. On the side, the Malbim explains where Achashveros showed his wealth for 180 days and had his wife come to him naked. He wanted ti show that he is a dictator with limitless power where the wealth belongs to him and the wife is owned by him without any constitutiinal restrictions he calls it a ממשלה שאינה מוגבלת. He explaina the difference between
מלכה ושתי and ושתי המלכה. The second, Achashveos held that without me, you are just Vashti so she said I am a queen because of my birth rite being a grand daughter of Nevuchadnezar.