“There is one people” (Esther 3:8):
Rava said: No one was ever as skillful at evil language as Haman.
Haman said to Ahashverosh: Come, let us destroy them.
Ahashverosh replied: I am afraid of their God, lest He do to me as He did to my predecessors.
Haman replied: They are “negligent” of the precepts.
Ahashverosh said: There are Rabbis among them.
Haman replied: They are “one people”.
Should you say that I will make a void in your kingdom, they are “scattered abroad among the peoples”.
Should you say: There is some profit in them, I reply, “they are dispersed” [nifredu], like an isolated bough [peridah] that does not bear fruit.
Should you say that they occupy one province, I reply, “they are in all the provinces of your kingdom”.
“Their laws are diverse from those of every other people”: they do not eat our food, nor do they marry our women nor give us theirs in marriage.
“Neither keep they the king’s laws”, since they evade taxes the whole year by saying today is Shabbat, today is Pesah.
“Therefore it does not profit the king to suffer them”, because they eat and drink and despise the throne. For if a fly falls into the cup of one of them, he throws it out and drinks the wine, but if my lord the king were to touch his cup, he would dash it on the ground and not drink from it. “If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver”:
And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you and the people also, to do with them as it seems good in your eyes.”
(5) You lived in the time of Moses, and you were numbered among the advisers of Pharaoh. Did you lift a finger when Pharaoh issued his evil decree that “Every son that is born you shall cast into the river” (Exodus 1:22), or when the oppressors enslaved your "kin" with back-breaking work? You were silent then and did not protest, for you were afraid of identifying yourself with the unfortunate slaves. To toss them a coin? Yes; but to publicly demonstrate for them? No! You were afraid that you would be accused of dual-loyalty.
(6) You were active in the generation of Ezra and Nehemiah, the returnees to Zion. You, Job, with your wealth and influence, could have hastened the process of settling the Land of Israel and rebuilding the Temple. However, your ear was deafened and did not heed the historical cries of the nation.
(7) You did not storm out in protest against ... Israel’s enemies who wanted to destroy the land and extinguish the spark of the last hope of God’s people. What did you do in the hour when the returnees from the Diaspora cried out from the depths of suffering and despair: “The strength of the bearers of the burdens has faltered and there is much rubbish, so that we are not able to build the wall”(Nehemiah 4:4)? You sat with folded arms! You did not participate in the travail of those who fought for Judaism, for Israel, and the redemption. Never did you bring even one sacrifice on their behalf. All these years you worried only about your own welfare and only for your own benefit did you pray and offer sacrifices ...
(9) Did you once, Job, participate in a stranger’s grief to the extent of making a plea on his behalf? No, you did not! Do you know, Job, that prayer is the province of the community, and that an individual does not come before the Eternal to plead before God and request the fulfillment of one's needs until that person is redeemed from isolation and self-containment and joins the community? Did you forget that Jewish prayer speaks in the plural (“One should Job always join together with the community in prayer” [TB Berakhot 3a]), and that Jewish prayer is the linking of one soul to another and the fusing of tempestuous hearts. You did not know how to use the formula for prayer fixed by the nation, which is to include yourself within the community and to help bear the burden of another human being. If your soul wants to comprehend the doctrine of the amelioration of suffering, you must grasp the secret of prayer that brings the “I” close to the other ... You will not fulfill your obligation by generously dispensing the miserable pennies with which you were blessed.