Todas [incluindo mulheres] estão aptas a ler a Megillah, exceto um surdo-mudo [(Esta Mishnah está de acordo com R. Yossi, que diz que se alguém lê e não "faz ouvir" seus ouvidos), ele não cumpriu sua obrigação)], um imbecil e um menor. R. Yehudah ordena que seja adequado a um menor. [A halachá não está de acordo com R. Yehudah.] A Megillah não é lida, a circuncisão não é realizada, a imersão (ritual) não é realizada, a aspersão não é realizada, e também uma mulher que observa "dia após dia" não mergulhe até o nascer do sol. E todos eles, se o fizeram ao amanhecer, é kasher. [("O Megillah não é lido") :) É preciso ler o Megillah à noite e repeti-lo durante o dia. E a leitura do dia é somente após o nascer do sol, viz. (Ester 9:28): "E esses dias são comemorados e comemorados." ("a circuncisão não é realizada" :), viz. (Levítico 12: 3): "E no oitavo dia ele circuncidará." ("imersão e aspersão não são realizadas"): está sendo escrito em relação à aspersão (Números 19:19): "E o limpo aspersará sobre o imundo no terceiro e no sétimo dia"; e a imersão é comparado a aspersão. Somente quando ele mergulha no sétimo dia é que ele deve mergulhar apenas durante o dia, e não dizemos que ele possa mergulhar quando escurecer na noite do sétimo, mesmo que a noite seja o começo do dia. Mas depois que o sétimo dia passou, é permitido mergulhar à noite. ("uma mulher que observa 'dia contra dia'") durante os onze dias entre um estado de niddah e o próximo. Se ela vê sangue em um daqueles dias, ela observa o dia seguinte (em limpeza) e mergulha o próprio dia ao nascer do sol. ("se o fizeram ao amanhecer, é kasher:") Pois quando o dia amanhece, chama-se "dia", viz. (Nechemiah 4:15): "E nós fizemos o trabalho ... desde o amanhecer até as estrelas aparecerem", seguido por (Ibid. 16): "... e a noite para nós estava guardando, e o dia, trabalho". Eles disseram "até o nascer do sol" apenas para garantir que não era noite, pois nem todos são especialistas em discriminar o amanhecer.]
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.
