Talmud su Ester 4:18

It was stated²⁷⁴Tosephta Berakhot 6:19.: Nobody should enter the Temple Mount in shoes, with dust on his feet, or his coins tied up in his head-scarf, or his money belt on him outside. What is the reason? (Eccl. 4:17) “Watch your feet when you go to God’s house.” Rebbi Yose ben Yehudah says (Esth. 4:2): “He came as far as the king’s gate because nobody may enter the king’s gate in sackcloth.” He said, if it is so for a foul smelling drop²⁷⁵The semen from which the king was conceived., so much more for the gate of the Omnipresent!

[42a] What¹³From here to Then came Amalek is the reading of GRA. is the procedure on Purim? If Purim falls on a Sabbath, seven read [the section] of the Sabbath while the eighth reads Then came Amalek.¹⁴Ex. 17, 8-16. The three fast days¹⁵In commemoration of the three days of fasting ordained by Mordecai and Esther (Esth. 4, 16). are not observed on consecutive days but are separated [and observed] on Monday, Thursday and Monday. Our Rabbis in the land of Israel had the custom of fasting after Purim¹⁶Not, as others, before it. on account of [the victory over] Nicanor and his associates,¹⁷This occurred on the thirteenth of Adar, the day before Purim [cf. 1 Macc. VII, 49; 2 Macc. XV, 36; Josephus, Antiq. XII, x, 5], on account of which fasting was prohibited. Nicanor was a Syrian commander who fell in the Maccabean war in the battle of Adasa in 161 b.c.e. and also because the commemoration of sad events is postponed rather than antedated.

[Reverting to the sequence of the readings which] is interrupted for Purim.¹Cf. XVII, 2 where the subject was begun. Having been suspended in favour of other Festivals, it is here resumed. It is²So GRA and H. V and M read ‘according to’. the custom of our Rabbis in the West to afflict themselves by fasting the three days of the fast of Mordecai and Esther³Cf. Esth. 4, 16. intermittently, viz. after Purim on the Monday, Thursday and Monday.