the woman might be a crackpot or just a mean bitter woman, you won’t change her and at the end you go home with a 10 year old that learned the lesson that all that talk about middos is just that, talk. the lesson the 10 year old learned will probably outlive the older woman and not in a positive sense. At the end you were all stubbborn, no one one and not one got the zechus of overcoming their yetzer hara. Popa, you are forgetting the particulars of this story. they were all there to do a mitzva, the daughter’s chiyuv is only for chinuch, what chinuch did she get? Esther’s reaction here is similar to someone who is crossing a street on a green and a car goes through on the red. Most people will jump out of the way even though they have the right of way because no one wants to be “dead right”. We all have to learn the lesson that sometimes it just doesn’t pay to fight. Esther had the opportunity to show her daughter that we show kovod to zekainim even when they don’t deserve it, simply because they are older. We actually have a mitzah to stand up for an older person like it or not. No question the woman acted wrongly but two wrongs don’t make a right.
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