Question: How was Esther allowed to transgress one of the big three that are יהרג ואל יעבור [i.e. sleeping with the big Persian bear]?
Answer: To save Klal Yisrael one is allowed [Maharik - and see also Sanhedrin 74b].
Question: Mordechai said that if you are silent then the Jews will be saved otherwise [אם החרש תחרישי]. That means that גילוי עריות wasn't the only recourse to saving the Jews, so it should have been אסור??
Asking for a friend.
