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the term: The second, and it was also necessary to write the phrase: In each and every year; proof from one of the verses would have been insufficient. As, if I had derived the halakha only from the phrase: In each and every year, I would have said my conclusion according to our question raised ear
The Talmud asks: And R' Eliezer, son of R' Yosei, what does he do with this term: The second? Since he holds that the Megilla is read in the first Adar, what does he derive from the verse? The Talmud answers: He requires the term to derive that statement of Rav Shmuel bar Yehuda, as Rav Shmuel bar
Apropos the statement of Rav Shmuel bar Yehuda with regard to the establishment of the holiday of Purim, the Talmud cites a related statement. Rav Shmuel bar Yehuda said: Esther sent to the rabbis: Establish me for future generations. Esther requested that the observance of Purim and the reading of
It was related that Rav and R' Ḥanina and R' Yoḥanan and Rav Ḥaviva taught the statement cited below. The Talmud comments: Throughout the order of Moed, wherever this latter pair of rabbis is mentioned, exchange R' Yoḥanan and insert R' Yonatan in his place. They said: Esther sent to the rabbis: Wri
The rabbis did not accede to Esther’s request until they found a verse written in the Torah: “Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: That I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens” (Exodus 17:14). The rabbis interpreted the verse