Megillah
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Megillah may refer to:
Bible:
Rabbinic literature:
Ottoman civil codex
Bible:
- The Scroll of Esther (Megillat Esther), read on the Jewish holiday of Purim.
- Megillat AntiochusMegillat AntiochusMegillat Antiochus is a work recounting the story of Hanukkah and the history of the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire....
Rabbinic literature:
- Tractate MegillahMegillah (Talmud)Megillah is the tenth Tractate of Mishnah in the Order Moed. It and its Gemara deal with the laws of Purim and offers exegetical understandings to the Book of Esther. It also includes laws concerning the public reading of the Torah and other communal synagogue practices...
in the Talmud. - Megillat TaanitMegillat TaanitMegillat Taanit is 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...
, a tannaitic document listing Jewish days of celebration.
Ottoman civil codex
- MecelleMecelleThe Mecelle code was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...