Megillah, Daf Kaf Bet, Part 5 Introduction Today’s section returns to the brief mention from above that Rav would not "fall on his face" as the other people in Babylon did. This is the source of the custom that remains to this day to fall on our...
Megillah, Daf Kaf Bet, Part 4 Introduction The sugya continues to try to answer the question of how many people read from the Torah on public fast days. תא שמע: זה הכלל: כל...
Megillah, Daf Kaf Bet, Part 3 Introduction The Mishnah does not tell us how many people read on a public fast day. In the Talmud a "public fast day" refers mainly to fasts called due to lack of rain. However, the word can also be used in reference to...
Megillah, Daf Kaf Bet, Part 2 Introduction In yesterday’s section we learned that on Rosh Hodesh in order to fulfill all of the rules of Torah reading (how much of a passage must be read, how much may be left over at its end, and how many verses each...
