Todos [incluidas las mujeres] están en condiciones de leer la Meguilá, excepto un sordomudo [(Esta Mishná está de acuerdo con R. Yossi, quien dice que si uno lee y no lo "hace oír" a sus oídos, no lo ha hecho). cumplió su obligación)], un imbécil y un menor. R. Yehudah dictamina que se ajuste a un menor. [La halajá no está de acuerdo con R. Yehudah.] La Meguilá no se lee, no se realiza la circuncisión, no se realiza la inmersión (ritual), no se realiza aspersión, y tampoco una mujer que observa "día contra día" sumérgete hasta el amanecer. Y todos ellos, si lo hicieron al amanecer, es kasher. [("" La Meguilá no se lee ":) Para uno debe leer la Meguilá en la noche y repetirla durante el día. Y la lectura del día es solo después del amanecer, a saber. (Ester 9:28): "Y estos días se conmemoran y celebran". ("no se realiza la circuncisión" :), a saber. (Levítico 12: 3): "Y al octavo día circuncidará". ("la inmersión y la aspersión no se realizan" :) está escrito con respecto a la aspersión (Números 19:19): "Y el limpio rociará al inmundo el tercer día y el séptimo día", y la inmersión es comparado con la aspersión. Es solo cuando se sumerge el séptimo día que debe sumergirse solo durante el día, y no decimos que puede sumergirse cuando oscurece la noche del séptimo, a pesar de que la noche es el comienzo del día. Pero después de que ha pasado el séptimo día, se permite sumergirse por la noche. ("una mujer que observa 'día contra día'" :) durante los once días entre un estado de nidda y el siguiente. Si ve sangre en uno de esos días, observa al día siguiente (en limpieza) y se sumerge ese día al amanecer. ("si lo hicieron al amanecer, es kasher:") Porque cuando amanece, se llama "día", a saber. (Nechemiah 4:15): "E hicimos el trabajo ... desde el amanecer hasta que aparecieron las estrellas", seguido de (Ibid. 16): "... y la noche para nosotros fue la guardia, y el día, el trabajo". Dijeron "hasta el amanecer" solo para asegurarse de que no fuera de noche, ya que no todos son expertos en discriminar el amanecer.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
הכל כשרים לקרות את המגילה – [the word] "הכל"/”everyone” – includes women.
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Introduction
The first section of the mishnah deals with who is qualified to read the Megillah. The second section deals with when it can be read.
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חוץ מחרש – Our Mishnah [is according to] Rabbi Yosi, who said (Mishnah Berakhot, 2:3): He who recites the Shema inaudibly to himself, he has not fulfilled [his religious obligation].
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All are qualified to read the Megillah except a deaf person, an idiot and a minor. Rabbi Judah qualifies a minor. Deaf people, idiots (this refers either to one who is mentally retarded or an insane person) and minors are generally not obligated to perform the commandments. As we have mentioned on several occasions, in those days they had no way to communicate with the deaf and little understanding of the insane or retarded. Hence these people were mostly cut off from participating in society. Minors are too young to understand the meaning of the commandments and hence are not obligated. Since these people are not obligated, they cannot perform the commandment for others. This was stated also in Rosh Hashanah 3:8, at the end of that mishnah. Rabbi Judah says that a minor is qualified.
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ר"י מכשיר בקטן – But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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They do not read the Megillah, nor circumcise, nor go to the mikveh, nor sprinkling [purificatory waters], and similarly a woman keeping day for day should not take a ritual bath until the sun has risen. But if any of these things is done after dawn, it is valid. The main reading of the Megillah takes place during the day. The Mishnah teaches that during the day means after the sun has risen. This is also the time for other mitzvoth that need to take place during the day. “Sprinkling” refers to the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer. “A woman keeping a day for a day” refers to a woman who was impure do to non-menstrual genital discharge. She is impure a day for every day on which she has a discharge. All of these things should be done after the sun has risen. However, if someone did them after dawn, meaning when the sky begins to become light, the actions are still valid, at least ex post facto.
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אין קורין את המגילה – for a person is required/liable to read the Megillah at night and go back to read it [again] during the day. But the reading of the day time should not be until than after sunrise, as it is written (Esther 9:28): “Consequently, these days are recalled and observed in every generation...”
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ולא מלין – as it is written (Leviticus 12:3): “On the eighth day [the flesh of his foreskin] shall be circumcised.”
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ולא טובלין ולא מזין – as it is written concerning sprinkling (Numbers 19:19): “The pure person shall sprinkle it upon the impure person on the third day and on the seventh day, [thus purifying him on the seventh day….].” And [the Rabbis] made an analogy between (two laws which rest of a biblical intimation or a principle common to both)/היקש – immersion in a ritual bath to sprinkling., and specifically when he immerses [in the Mikveh] on the seventh day, we say that from when it becomes night at the beginning of the seventh day, it is appropriate to immerse [in the Mikveh], and even though that nighttime is the beginning of the “day,” but once the seventh day has passed, it is permissible to to immerse [in the Mikveh] at night.
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שומרת יום כנגד יום – On the eleven days between menstruating cycles. If she saw [blood] one day, she keeps [i.e., “counts”] the day afterwards and immerses on that selfsame day once the sun rises.
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משעלה עמוד השחר כשר – for once the crack of dawn arrives, it is called “daytime,” as it is written in the book of Ezra (actually, Nehemiah 4:15): “And so we worked on, [while half were holding lances,] from the break of day until the stars appeared.” And it is written after this (verse 16): “…that we may use the night to stand guard and the day to work.” But, they did not say, “until sunrise,” rather in order to leave from the doubt of night, since not all are expert in when the crack of dawn occurs.
