Mar 9, 2009 · The Megillah of Esther (megillah means “scroll” in Hebrew) is one of the five megillahs that are included in the biblical canon. Esther is the only one to be commonly read from a handwritten …

The Mishnayot of Masekhet Megillah ("Tractate Scroll") were compiled, along with the rest of the Mishnah, by the second or third centuries CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi. [1]

Read the text of Megillah online with commentaries and connections.

The Scroll of Esther is universally known as the Megillah, not because it is the most important of the five scrolls, but due to its immense popularity, the prominence that is given to its public reading, and the …

Megillah comes from the Yiddish word megile, which itself comes from the Hebrew noun mĕgillāh, meaning “scroll” or “volume.” (Mĕgillāh is especially likely to be used in reference to the Book of …

To find out about Megillah readings in your location contact your local Chabad-Lubavitch center. Feel free to print this out and follow along as the Megillah is being read.

The size of this megillah scroll, especially the size of the letters, suggests a medieval antiphonary, one of those great liturgical manuscripts of the Middle Ages, whose bold Gothic letters were made large …