Megillah 7a: Why Did Esther Yearn to make Purim a Holiday? - Gemarah Megillah #18

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the yeshiva dotnet Megillah DAF Zion Amidala where are we holding 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 lines from the top 9 lines from the top the line starts her along Coolio LM Kula amar amar rips mu L bar u who de small the son of you who taught show Who I am Estella ha common this is a fascinating story of how the young TIFF poem came about Scholl column esta loca common ester sent a message to the sages Rashi says the second Rosh Hashanah schneier in the second year likova aalayam however she wanted that they should establish on the Jewish people the obligation to celebrate Porter so Esther sends a message to the hammam of the time the sages of the time when we say how come and what do we mean practically we mean probably the son had written the Sanhedrin is the body of 71 Jewish leaders who was the caballo ho the Supreme Court of Jewish life this institution starts already by Moshe Rubino parshas by Louis Sachar sham tells them to 0.7 the sages together with him a 71 you always have to have an odd number in case there is disputes you should be able to have a majority vote cause if not you may remain stalemate half and half so you have to have an odd number so you had 71 and these 71 were ordained by Moshe himself and one of the most fascinating elements of Jewish history is that these 71 ordained in each generation many many more including 71 who constituted the body of the greatest scholars and righteous people among the

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