- 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...
- 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...
- "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...
- 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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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...
- (2007), pp. 173–174
Young (2007), p. 174
Jerusalem Talmud (
Megillah 18a);
Babylonian Talmud (
Megillah 11b-12a)
Babylonian Talmud,
Arakhin 12b;
Maimonides (1989)...
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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...
