• Megillat Taanit (Hebrew: מגילת תענית‎), lit. "the Scroll of Fasting," is an ancient text, in the form of a chronicle, which enumerates 35 eventful days...
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  • water until they died. According to an oral teaching appearing in Megillat Taanit, the four modes of execution formerly used in Jewish law were mostly...
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    ISBN 978-965-226-453-4. OCLC 865555402. "Megillat Taanit". Sefaria. Warsaw, 1874. Retrieved 27 October 2021. Numbers 33:38. II Kings 25:8. "Taanit 31a". Sefaria. Retrieved...
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    Megillat Taanit, which contains two unattributed entries for cause of festivity: 7 Kislev and 2 Shevat. A later Scholion (commentary) on the Megillat...
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  • There are some older texts in Jewish Western Aramaic, notably the Megillat Taanit: the Babylonian Talmud contains occasional quotations from these. Dead...
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  • (Baba Bathra 8:1 [21b–22a]) Segal of Kraków, Avraham, ed. (1857). Megillat Taanit (in Hebrew). Cracow (?): Hemed. p. 14-16. OCLC 233298491. Derenbourg...
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    through the efforts of Rabbi Yehudah ben Shamu'a and his colleagues. (Megillat Taanit, a baraita on this matter can still be found in Ta'anit 18a and Rosh...
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  • Esther (Megillat Esther), read on the Jewish holiday of Purim The Five Megillot Megillat Antiochus Tractate Megillah in the Talmud. Megillat Taanit, a tannaitic...
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  • calls attention to a debate over Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. The Megillat Taanit, in a discussion of days when fasting is prohibited but that are not...
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    Maccabees 1:9 2 Maccabees 10:6 "Megillat Taanit, Kislev 7". www.sefaria.org. Bikkurim 1:6, Rosh HaShanah 1:3, Taanit 2:10, Megillah 3:4 and 3:6, Moed...
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    days (2:6-7); days on which public fasts are prohibited according to Megillat Taanit (2:8-10). Ch. 3: Cases in which the order of fasting may be changed...
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  • quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as Megillat Taanit. Overall, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of...
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    Religions 10/11 (November 2019), pp. 628; doi:10.3390/rel10110628. "Megillat Taanit". attalus.org.il. Retrieved 2016-09-21. John 4:20 W.J. Bennett and...
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  • later writings of Rabbinical Judaism, Nicanor's Day is mentioned in Megillat Taanit. Nicanor's Day is also discussed in the Ta'anit tractate of the Talmud...
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  • Egypt, Israel, and Syria. There is a mention of the earthquake in the Megillat Taanit (Scroll of Fasts). Classical sources mention the earthquake affecting...
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    2010. Retrieved 27 January 2018. The list of joyful days known as Megillat Taanit is older, but according to the Talmud it is no longer in force. "Commentary...
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    quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as Megillat Taanit. Overall, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of...
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  • hidden." The Talmud attributes authorship of Megillat Taanit to Hananiah ben Hezekiah. Megillat Taanit Menachot 45b Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat...
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    – AlHaTorah.org". mg.alhatorah.org (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-11. "Megillat Saragossa, a Purim Sheni legend for the 17th of Shevat". The Open Siddur...
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  • letters with tagin, ritual script which can be used in a Sefer Torah or Megillat Taanit. However, in the case of Sofer's Tiengebodenbord decalogue manuscript...
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    and expelled all its foreign residents. The event is alluded to in Megillat Taanit, in the Midrash Rabba (Canticles Rabba 8:7 [11], in the Jerusalem Talmud...
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  • "Brooklyn, NY - IN PHOTOS-VIDEO: Satmar Groups Celebrate 21 Kislev". 3 December 2015. "Megillat Taanit". attalus.org.il. Retrieved 2016-09-21. v t e...
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  • Megillat Taanit, s.v. "And on the twelfth day thereof (the lunar month of Adar) is the day of Trajan" (explained in the Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 18b...
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  • Rabbah 1:8, 7:26 Sukkah 20b See Neubauer, "G. T." pp. 363 et seq. See Megillat Taanit 12 Rosh Hashana 31b et seq.; see Rapoport, "'Erek Millin," pp. 233b...
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    down upon the mob. That event, the 29th of Nisan, called the Zwetschgen Taanit "Plum-Fast", was commemorated by a fast and a Purim festivity until the...
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    (translated to English by Dr. Goodman), and Mishlei Daniel Saadia translated Megillat Antiochus into Judeo-Arabic and wrote an introduction. Agron Kutub al-Lughah...
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  • Josephus, Antiquities 14.16.2. Babylonian Talmud (Taanit 29a, Arakhin 11b); Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 24a); Midrash Tehillim 94 (end); Seder Olam, ch. 30...
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    in 3338 anno mundi (= 422 BCE). Babylonian Talmud (Taanit 29a, Arakhin 11b); Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 24a); Midrash Tehillim 94 (end); Seder Olam, ch. 30...
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    Hallel (published by Nosach Teiman). Piyyutim for Simchat Torah disc 1. Megillat Eichah (portions thereof published by Nosach Teiman): Chapter 2 Chapter...
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    Kirchheim 1851 Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 17,end Müller, l.c. p. 277, note 67 Taanit 4:3, end, and Megillah 4:2 Megillah 22a, where Rav and Samuel of Nehardea...
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