Yerushalmi Megillah 2:4 ירושלמי מגילה ב׳:ד׳

MISHNAH: From where does a person start to read and fulfills his duty? Rebbi Meïr says, all of it. Rebbi Jehudah says, from a Jewish man⁴⁵Esth 2:5.. Rebbi Yose says, from after these matters⁴⁶Esth 3:1..

HALAKHAH: “From where does a person start to read and fulfills his duty? Rebbi Meïr says, all of it. Rebbi Jehudah says, from a Jewish man⁴⁵Esth. 2:5.. Rebbi Yose says, from after these matters⁴⁶Esth. 3:1..” Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: He who says all of it, about all words of this letter⁵⁷Esth. 9:26.. He who says from a Jewish man, what they understood about it⁵⁷Esth. 9:26.. He who says from after these matters, and what happened to them⁵⁷Esth. 9:26.. Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi. He who says all of it, all the facts of his strength and mightiness⁵⁸Esth. 10:2.. He who says from a Jewish man, the Chapter of the greatness of Mordocai⁵⁸Esth. 10:2.. He who says from after these matters, how the King aggrandized him⁵⁸Esth. 10:2.. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: strength, all strength, with all strength⁵⁹Esth. 9:29.. Strength, is Haman’s strength. All strength, is Mordocai’s strength. With all strength, is Ahasuerus’s strength. It was stated⁶⁰Babli 19a. In Tosephta 2:9 in the name of R. Simeon ben Eleazar.: Rebbi Simeon ben Yoḥay says, from in that night⁶¹Esth. 6:1.. From the place where there was Haman’s downfall came Mordocai’s rise.

Rebbi Abba, Rav Jeremiah in the name of Rav: practice follows Rebbi Meïr who says, all of it⁶²Babli 18b,19a.. Rebbi Ze`ira in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: In matters of eruvin and public fast-days everybody follows Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa in the name Rebbi Joḥanan: Even about the reading of the Esther scroll everybody follows Rebbi Meïr<sup>63</sup>Eruvin Chapter 6, Note 102. In eruvin one follows R. Meïr that eruv for courtyards and participation for alleys must be separate acts; in Ta`aniot that on a public fast day the priestly blessing is given three times. Babli Eruvin 72a. These rules are popular usage, not rabbinic decrees..

Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Mattanah, Yose bar Menashia in the name of Rav: Following whom who says, all of it, or who says from a Jewish man, or whom who said from after these matters, but only from a complete scroll⁶³Eruvin Chapter 6, Note 102. In eruvin one follows R. Meïr that eruv for courtyards and participation for alleys must be separate acts; in Ta`aniot that on a public fast day the priestly blessing is given three times. Babli Eruvin 72a. These rules are popular usage, not rabbinic decrees.. Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Mattanah, Yose bar Menashia in the name of Rav: If it was written like fifths⁶⁴A Ḥumash is a single book of the Pentateuch. One may not read from an Esther text written together with other Hagiographs since the Esther scroll is not holy and Hagiographs are no source of Halakhah. one does not read from it in public. Rebbi Tanḥuma said, because of the uneducated. Ulla from Bireh, Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: The learned fundraiser⁶⁵For the title “ragil” for the outstanding scholar who acts as fundraiser, cf. S. Liebermann Tarbiz4 (1933) pp. 378–9; Eruvin Chapter 3, Note 150. The Babli (4a, 20a) has the same statement formulated as obligation for everybody. has to read it in the night and to repeat during the day. We were of the opinion to say, to teach its Mishnah⁶⁶Since the technical term for teaching Mishnah is “to repeat”.. Rebbi Abba Mari the Babylonian said, to repeat its reading⁶⁷Even the fundraiser who wants to visit as many places as possible has to read the Scroll during the day; his reading in the night following Babylonian practice does not excuse him from the obligation to read it during daytime..

Rebbi Berekhia, Rebbi Ḥelbo, Ulla from Bireh, Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina⁶⁸This has no material connection with the preceding text; it is added because it is a tradition of Ulla from Bireh as is the preceding one. A parallel text is in Moed qatan 3:7 (in two texts, קר), shortened in the Babli, Ta`anit 31a, Midrash Ps., Ps. 48[5].: In the future the Holy One, praise to Him, will lead a circular dance for the Just ones. What is the reason? Put your hearts to its walls⁶⁹Ps. 48:14., it is written “to its circular dance.⁷⁰This reading is not found in masoretic texts.” And the Just one will point with their finger and say, Truly, He is GOD, our Power, Forever; He will lead us beyond death⁷¹Ps. 48:15.! Almut, in strength, [in agility.]⁷²Corrector’s addition from Megillah. Almut, like these girls. Akilas translated ’αθανασία, a world without death. And the Just one will point with their finger and say, Truly, He is GOD, our Power, Forever; He will lead us beyond death! He will lead us in this world, He well lead us in the future⁷³“Lead us in worlds” is the translation of LXX..

Rebbi Ḥelbo, Rav Ḥama bar Guria in the name of Rav Ḥama bar Uqba in the name of Rebbi Yose ben Ḥanina: Family and family⁷⁴Esth. 9:28., from here that the watches of priests and Levites will be unoccupied⁷⁵Since sexual activity pollutes and purity is regained only at sundown following immersion in water, priests and Levites officiating in the Temple have to serve far from their families. If they have to join their families for the celebration of Purim, the Temple service has to stop. Babli 3a.; Rebbi Ḥelbo said, from here that the house of assembly will be empty⁷⁶While the previous remark was theoretical, this one is practical and forbids sessions of the Academy in the afternoon of Adar 14.. Simeon bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan, and their remembrance will not disappear from their descendants⁷⁴Esth. 9:28., from here that the Sages dedicated a Tractate to it.