Book of Esther

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an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

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This passage in Torat Kohanim is cited by TB Megilah 18a, but only in regard to the recollection of Amalek, and not to the recollection of provoking God to anger.

25:17 cited above, Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin to TB Megilah 30b, Magen Avraham, and Baruch Epstein Torah Temimah to our verse, disagreeing with his father (Yechiel Michel Epstein, cited above) and agreeing with Luria.

CONSIDERING THE GENRE AND AUDIENCE OF DEUTERONOMY 9:7

The holiday calls for the megilah to be read in front of the populace - traditionally being a man reading for a quorum of at least 10 men - twice during the holiday, once during the night and once the next morning.

Rabbi: Women's Megilah Readings OK According to Jewish Law

He is perhaps understood by the notes in Albeck's Eshkol in this manner; Sefat Emet commenting on Megilah 7a also indicates that perhaps the law is like Samuel.

Defilement of the hands, canonization of the Bible, and the special status of Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs

"In the Megilah, Achashverosh kills his wife after a long night of drinking," he says.

To life! To life! L'chaim!

For a rabbinic dictum that Antoninus would be the first righteous proselyte to be accepted when the Messiah comes, see Megilah 74/a.

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