Tom’s Talmud Tisch | Tractate Megillah · Chapter One · Daf 7b
Episode Twelve: Feast, Timing, and Memory
Our detailed analysis of Se’udat Purim—the celebratory feast made most exceptional by the halachic mandate of intoxication—over the previous two episodes (Feast Gone Too Far, Parts I & II) shed significant light on this enigmatic dimension of Purim’s rejoicing.
In this twelfth and concluding episode, we focus on a critical qualification: despite the mandate of ongoing merrymaking, only a feast held during the daylight hours fulfills the halachic requirements of the formal Purim seudah.
Having clarified the methodology of mitzvah fulfillment, the Gemara concludes its commentary on the Mishnah with a keystone teaching about Torah’s endurance –preserved only through disciplined review and remembrance.
This climactic installment of our Purim mini-series has been generously sponsored by Leslie and Iris Friedman in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Leslie’s father, Tzvi ben Yechiel HaLevi, OBM.
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