Look up megillah in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Megillah (Hebrew: מגילה, scroll) may refer to: The Book of Esther (Megillat Esther), read on the...
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Masekhet Megillah (Hebrew: מסכת מגילה, lit. 'Tractate Scroll') is a tractate in Seder Moed of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals with laws...
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Purim (section Reading of the Megillah)
recitation of the Scroll of Esther (קריאת מגילת אסתר), or "reading of the Megillah", usually in synagogue. Reciting additions to the daily prayers and the...
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Book of Esther (redirect from The Megillah)
Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (Ketuvim, כְּתוּבִים "Writings") of the...
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Prophets in Judaism (section The 46 prophets to Israel (46 according to Rashi, commentary on Tractate Megillah 14a))
prophets who prophecied in the 2nd year of Darius (Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 15a) Mehseiah – Minor figure in the Hebrew Bible Neriah – Biblical figure...
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"Tractate Megillah 1:8", Mishnah, London: Oxford University Press, OCLC 977686730, s.v. Megillah 1:8, p. 202 (note 20); Yadayim 4:5-6, (note 6) Megillah 17a...
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from the original on 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2023-05-24. Nehemiah 13:6) "Megillah 15a, the William Davidson Talmud (Koren - Steinsaltz)". Archived from the...
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tune. The term megillah is most widely used for the book of Esther, even though it is applied to the rest as well. The term megillah is also used in...
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congregation when the name of Haman is read out during the recitation of the Megillah in the synagogue during the celebration of Purim in order to blot out Haman's...
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Baal keriah (section Megillah)
before and after the reading, and the reader stands as he chants it. The Megillah is read during the festival of Purim, commemorating the rescue of the Jewish...
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writing on the wall in Daniel 5:25. Babylonian Talmud The Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 23b) derives the requirement of a minyan of ten shomer Shabbat for Kiddush...
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43 [1989] 44. Megillah 14a Archived 2010-11-24 at the Wayback Machine Berlin, Adele. "Abigail: Bible". Jewish Women's Archive. Megillah 15a Archived 2010-11-24...
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Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 21b–22a); Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 10a). Cf. Mishnah (Megillah 1:8): "The Books [of Scripture] differ from phylacteries...
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9:8 refers to the language as Ivrit, meaning Hebrew; however, Mishnah Megillah refers to the language as Ashurit, meaning Assyrian, which is derived from...
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Talmud". Aishdas.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06. Pesachim 2b Pesachim 112a Megillah 28a Eruvin 21a Sotah 11a "Rabbi Yehudah Prero "The Passover Hagadah Maggid...
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#Talmud Bavli. E-Daf Images of each page of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah: .pdf download showing Yemenite vocalization Shas.org Daf Viewer (Hebrew)...
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This view of Berechiah is based on the Talmud (Yoma 10a; Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 71b), where Gomer, the father of Ashkenaz, is translated by Germamia, which...
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sources (including Augustine of Hippo). It is also found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud: King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed...
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to let her keep him. In Yiddish, a megillah is a long, tedious, or embroidered account, from the Hebrew megillah, a story written in a scroll. The first...
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adopted a triennial cycle (Megillah 29b). The reading of a selection from the Prophets originated in the time of the Mishnah (Megillah 24a). This practice probably...
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Kislev 7". www.sefaria.org. Bikkurim 1:6, Rosh HaShanah 1:3, Taanit 2:10, Megillah 3:4 and 3:6, Moed Katan 3:9, and Bava Kama 6:6 In his Hakdamah Le'mafteach...
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chapter 30; Tosefta (Zevahim 13:6); Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 18a); Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 11b–12a; Arakhin 12b; Baba Bathra 4a), Maimonides, Mishneh...
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Persian king Ahasuerus (better known as Artaxerxes – Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 15a, based on the Book of Esther 4, 5), but he was killed by Haman, the...
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November 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022. The Babylonian Talmud says in Megillah 7b that "Rava said: A person is obligated to become intoxicated on Purim...
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KTAV, New York, 1970, pp. 72–73. Stern 2001. Rosh Hashanah 20b Yerushalmi Megillah 1:2, pp. 70b. Text:א"ר יוסה לית כאן חל להיות בשני ולית כאן חל להיות בשבת...
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of the Hebrew word ḥiṣonim (ḥiṣon "outside"), which the Mishnah (e.g. Megillah 4:8) uses to describe various sectarian groups. Another theory is that...
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2023). "Solomon king of Israel". Britannica. 1 Kings 5:5; 8:20 Rashi, to Megillah, 14a Finkelstein & Silberman 2006, p. 20. Grabbe, Lester. The Dawn of Israel:...
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Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 May 2020. Danby, H., ed. (1964). "Tractate Megillah 1:8". Mishnah. London: Oxford University Press. p. 202 (note 20). OCLC 977686730...
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Shabbat Eruvin Pesahim Shekalim Yoma Sukkah Beitza Rosh Hashanah Ta'anit Megillah Mo'ed Katan Hagigah Yevamot Ketubot Nedarim Nazir Sotah Gittin Kiddushin...
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Talmud (Megillah 12a); cf. Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 19b) Jerusalem Talmud (Berakhot 37a); cf. Leviticus 18:19 Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 32b); cf...
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