NOUN
- (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim
How To Use Megillah In A Sentence
- I wasn't here, I don't know anything, and I already told the whole megillah twenty times. HOPE TO DIE
- The Rabbis learn from the plural “damim” that she saved him from two transgressions: from committing bloodshed, and from having relations with her when she was menstrually impure (BT Megillah loc. cit.). Abigail: Midrash and Aggadah.
- So give ‘em the whole megillah… Do readers really want to know how miserable you are?
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- Esth. 2: 7 states: “Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter [literally: took her le-vat],” which the midrash understands as: Mordecai took her le-bayit, that is, as a wife (BT Megillah loc. cit.). Esther: Midrash and Aggadah.
- And now that I've found a hairstyle that suits the inexorable genetic progress of hair erasure, it gives me pause to reflect on the whole megillah of pateness, as you put it.
- In 2000 a separate Torah reading was held for women on Simhat Torah and in 2001 the WTG also read the Megillah on Purim. Australia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- I wasn't here, I don't know anything, and I already told the whole megillah twenty times. HOPE TO DIE
- Because of her haughty deportment, she was given a denigratory name, “huldah,” meaning “weasel” (even the Aramaic translation of her name — karkushta — sounds ugly) (BT Megillah 14b). Huldah, the Prophet: Midrash and Aggadah.
- volume of Esther", or simply "the volume" (megillah) to distinguish it from the other four volumes (megilloth), written on separate rolls, which were read in the synagogues on certain feast days. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy