The Jerusalem Talmud Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 2.4

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

MISHNAH: From where does a person start to read and fulfills his duty? Rebbi Meïr says, all of it. Rebbi Jehudah says, from a Jewish man. Rebbi Yose says, from after these matters.

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Hebrew · Jerusalem Talmud, ed. Guggenheimer (Hebrew/Aramaic)

הלכה: מֵאֵיכָן קוֹרֵא אָדָם אֶת הַמְּגִילָּה וְיוֹצֵא בָּהּ יְדֵי חוֹבָתוֹ. רִבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר. אֶת כּוּלָּהּ. רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר. מֵאִישׁ יְהוּדִי. רִבִּי יוֹסֵה אוֹמֵר. מֵאַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה. רִבִּי אַבָּהוּ בְשֵׁם רִבִּי לָעְזָר. מָאן דְּאָמַר כּוּלָּהּ. עַל כֵּן עַל כָּל דִּבְרֵי הָאִיגֶּרֶת הַזֹּאת. מָאן דְּאָמַר. מֵאִישׁ יְהוּדִי. וּמָה רָאוּ עַל כָּכָה. מָאן דְּאָמַר. מֵאַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה. וּמָה הִגִּיעַ אֲלֵיהֶם. רִבִּי סִימוֹן בְּשֵׁם רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי. מָאן דְּאָמַר כּוּלָּהּ. וְכָל מַעֲשֵׂה תוֹקְפּוֹ וּגְבוּרָתוֹ. מָאן דְּאָמַר מֵאִישׁ יְהוּדִי. וּפָרָשַׁת גְּדוּלַּת מָרְדֳּכַי. וּמָאן דְּאָמַר מֵאַחַר הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה. אֲשֶׁר גִּדְּלוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ. רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֵּירִבִּי בּוּן בְּשֵׁם רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי. תּוֹקֶף. כָּל תּוֹקֶף. אֶת כָּל תּוֹקֶף. תּוֹקֶף זֶה תוֹקְפּוֹ שֶׁלְהָמָן. כָּל תּוֹקֶף זֶה תוֹקְפּוֹ שֶׁלְמָרְדֳּכַי. אֶת כָּל תּוֹקֶף זֶה תוֹקְפּוֹ שֶׁלְאַחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ. תַּנֵּי. רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחַי אוֹמֵר. מִבַּלַּיְלָה הַהוּא. מִמָּקוֹם שְׁהָיְתָה מַפַּלָּתוֹ שֶׁלְהָמָן מִשָּׁם הָיְתָה גְדוּלָּתוֹ שֶׁלְמָרְדֳּכַי.

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

HALAKHAH: “From where does a person start to read and fulfills his duty? Rebbi Meïr says, all of it. Rebbi Jehudah says, from a Jewish man. Rebbi Yose says, from after these matters.” Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: He who says all of it, about all words of this letter. He who says from a Jewish man, what they understood about it. He who says from after these matters, and what happened to them. Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi. He who says all of it, all the facts of his strength and mightiness. He who says from a Jewish man, the Chapter of the greatness of Mordocai. He who says from after these matters, how the King aggrandized him. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: strength, all strength, with all strength. Strength, is Haman’s strength. All strength, is Mordocai’s strength. With all strength, is Ahasuerus’s strength. It was stated: Rebbi Simeon ben Yoḥay says, from in that night. From the place where there was Haman’s downfall came Mordocai’s rise.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Rebbi Abba, Rav Jeremiah in the name of Rav: practice follows Rebbi Meïr who says, all of it. Rebbi Ze`ira in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: In matters of eruvin and public fast-days everybody follows Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa in the name Rebbi Joḥanan: Even about the reading of the Esther scroll everybody follows Rebbi Meïr.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Mattanah, Yose bar Menashia in the name of Rav: Following whom who says, all of it, or who says from a Jewish man, or whom who said from after these matters, but only from a complete scroll. Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Mattanah, Yose bar Menashia in the name of Rav: If it was written like fifths one does not read from it in public. Rebbi Tanḥuma said, because of the uneducated. Ulla from Bireh, Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: The learned fundraiser has to read it in the night and to repeat during the day. We were of the opinion to say, to teach its Mishnah. Rebbi Abba Mari the Babylonian said, to repeat its reading.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Rebbi Berekhia, Rebbi Ḥelbo, Ulla from Bireh, Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: In the future the Holy One, praise to Him, will lead a circular dance for the Just ones. What is the reason? Put your hearts to its walls, it is written “to its circular dance.” And the Just one will point with their finger and say, Truly, He is GOD, our Power, Forever; He will lead us beyond death! Almut, in strength, [in agility.] Almut, like these girls. Akilas translated ’αθανασία, a world without death. And the Just one will point with their finger and say, Truly, He is GOD, our Power, Forever; He will lead us beyond death! He will lead us in this world, He well lead us in the future.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Ḥama bar Guria in the name of Rav Ḥama bar Uqba in the name of Rebbi Yose ben Ḥanina: Family and family, from here that the watches of priests and Levites will be unoccupied; Rebbi Ḥelbo said, from here that the house of assembly will be empty. Simeon bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan, and their remembrance will not disappear from their descendants, from here that the Sages dedicated a Tractate to it.

Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 2.4

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