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and he establishes the baraita in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei bar Yehuda, rather than R' Yehuda.
The Talmud explains the apparent contradiction: And did R' Yehuda actually say that nowadays, since people look to the reading of the Megilla and use it to calculate when Passover begins, one may read the Megilla only in its designated time? The Talmud raises a contradiction from a Mishnah (5a): R'
The Mishnah indicates that, at least in a place where the villagers enter town on Monday and Thursday, one may read the Megilla from the 11th of Adar even nowadays. And due to this contradiction, Rav Ashi establishes the baraita in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei bar Yehuda.
The Talmud expresses surprise: Because Rav Ashi poses a difficulty due to the apparent contradiction between the opinion of R' Yehuda in the baraita and the opinion cited in a Mishnah in the name of R' Yehuda, he establishes the baraita in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei bar Yehuda? How cou
The Talmud explains: Rav Ashi heard that there were those who taught the baraita in the name of R' Yehuda, and there were those who taught it in the name of R' Yosei bar Yehuda. And since he had a difficulty with the apparent contradiction between one ruling of R' Yehuda and another ruling of R' Yeh