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it follows some other count. Rav Pappa said: The meaning of the first instance of the expression “the 20th year” may be inferred from the second instance of the expression “the 20th year” by way of a verbal analogy: Just as there the reference is to the 20th year of Artaxerxes, so too, here the ref
The Talmud raises another question: Even though those two events took place in the same year, from where is it known that the incident that occurred in Kislev took place first? Perhaps the incident that occurred in Nisan took place first, in which case it is possible that even the years of non-Jew
The Talmud answers: It should not enter your mind to say this, as it is taught in a baraita: The words that Hanani told Nehemiah in the month of Kislev, Nehemiah told the king in the month of Nisan.
The baraita explains: The words that Hanani said to Nehemiah in Kislev are as it is stated: “The words of Nehemiah, son of Hachaliah: And it came to pass in the month Kislev, in the 20th year, as I was in Shushan the capital, that Hanani, one of my brothers, came out of Judah, he and certain men; an
Nehemiah told these words to the king in Nisan, as it is stated: “And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the 20th year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. And the king said to me: Why is