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 on which the Jewish nation either performed glorious deeds or witnessed joyful events. These days were celebrated as feast-days. Public mourning was forbidden on 14 of them, and public fasting on all.
MegillatTaanit (Hebrew: מגילת תענית), lit. "the Scroll of Fasting," is an ancient text, in the form of a chronicle, which enumerates 35 eventful days...
water until they died. According to an oral teaching appearing in MegillatTaanit, the four modes of execution formerly used in Jewish law were mostly...
MegillatTaanit, which contains two unattributed entries for cause of festivity: 7 Kislev and 2 Shevat. A later Scholion (commentary) on the Megillat...
calls attention to a debate over Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. The MegillatTaanit, in a discussion of days when fasting is prohibited but that are not...
through the efforts of Rabbi Yehudah ben Shamu'a and his colleagues. (MegillatTaanit, a baraita on this matter can still be found in Ta'anit 18a and Rosh...
hidden." The Talmud attributes authorship of MegillatTaanit to Hananiah ben Hezekiah. MegillatTaanit Menachot 45b Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat...
There are some older texts in Jewish Western Aramaic, notably the MegillatTaanit: the Babylonian Talmud contains occasional quotations from these. Dead...
Esther (Megillat Esther), read on the Jewish holiday of Purim The Five Megillot Megillat Antiochus Tractate Megillah in the Talmud. MegillatTaanit, a tannaitic...
quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as MegillatTaanit. Overall, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of...
Egypt, Israel, and Syria. There is a mention of the earthquake in the MegillatTaanit (Scroll of Fasts). Classical sources mention the earthquake affecting...
quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as MegillatTaanit. Overall, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of...
2010. Retrieved 27 January 2018. The list of joyful days known as MegillatTaanit is older, but according to the Talmud it is no longer in force. "Commentary...
letters with tagin, ritual script which can be used in a Sefer Torah or MegillatTaanit. However, in the case of Sofer's Tiengebodenbord decalogue manuscript...
– 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...
MegillatTaanit, 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...
and expelled all its foreign residents. The event is alluded to in MegillatTaanit, in the Midrash Rabba (Canticles Rabba 8:7 [11], in the Jerusalem Talmud...
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...
(translated to English by Dr. Goodman), and Mishlei Daniel Saadia translated Megillat Antiochus into Judeo-Arabic and wrote an introduction. Agron Kutub al-Lughah...
the beginning of the midrash, which is based on Zechariah 11:8, compare Taanit 9a and Sifre Deuteronomy 305. The midrash cites no authorities for its statements...
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