The Falling Column of Haman's Sons — Esther 9:7–9
וְאֵת … וְאֵת … וְאֵת
What to look for
The ten sons of Haman stacked in a single vertical column — names on one side, 'and' on the other, with a gulf of space between.
What it is
A prescribed layout in the Megillah: the ten names must be written one above another, and tradition reads them aloud in a single breath.
Why it matters
One breath, because they fell together; one column, because — as the tradition puts it — a wall built without interlocking bricks collapses and is never rebuilt.
How it has been understood
The empty space in the middle of the layout does the preaching: where the songs of deliverance are woven tight, the monument to the persecutors is hollow at its center. The same page also carries the small letters and long vav (see their entries) — three scribal systems converging on ten names.