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Book of Esther
(redirected from Megilat Esther)

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Noun1.Book of Esther - an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre
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Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings - the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
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Mahari Weil states: Mahari Segal stated that one can justify the practice of not having an extra page in the megillah, which is the custom [not to have], since there is a Talmudic opinion that Megilat Esther was not given to be written through prophecy and is not called a book and thus we are not careful about touching it without a covering on our hands.
Defilement of the hands, canonization of the Bible, and the special ... by Broyde, Michael J. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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