Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 4

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 4   Introduction This section opens with a halakhic ruling related to the dispute over where one begins to read the Megillah. אמר רבי חלבו אמר רב...

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 3

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 3   Introduction Today’s section deals with the second section of the Mishnah where there was a dispute as to where one must begin the Megillah reading.   מהיכן קורא...

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 2

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 2   Introduction The mishnah which opens today’s section first discusses a person who travels from a walled city which reads the Megillah on the 15th of Adar to a town which reads it on the 14th or vice versa.  ...

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 1

Megillah, Daf Yod Tet, Part 1   Introduction This week’s daf goes back to explain the mishnah from 17a. The last clause of the mishnah said: If it was written with arsenic, with red chalk, with gum or with sulfate of copper, or on paper or on scratch paper,...

Megillah, Daf Yod Het, Part 6

Megillah, Daf Yod Het, Part 6   Introduction Most of today’s section deals with writing scrolls by memory. Is this permissible, or can one write a new scroll of Scripture only by copying an already existent one?   היה...