• 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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    #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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    jstor.org/stable/23503560 1 Maccabees, 10:34 Rosh Hashana 23a Megillah 22b Turei Even, Megillah 22b. See also Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Shiurim lezecher abba...
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    Albino Garzetti: From Tiberius to the Antonines page 266 Gittin 57a Megillah 10b Megillah 3a Epiphanius, Treatise on Weights and Measures - Syriac Version...
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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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    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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    Rabbah 63:6. Pirkei d'Rav Kahana, quoted in Scherman, p. 139. Talmud Bavli, Megillah 17a; Rashi, Breishit 28:9 Ginzberg, Louis (1909). Legends of the Jews Vol...
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  • respective titles for women are "Magbihah" and "Golelet". Rashi says on Megillah 32a that these roles were originally performed by the same honoree. As...
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    son of Abraham, sister of Nebaiot" (Gen. 28:9), on which Rashi, quoting Megillah 17a, notes that Ishmael died between the engagement and wedding, so the...
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