[Avodah] Bizmaneihem

[Jonathan Baker]

RZS:
> Micha Berger wrote:
 
>>Grammatically, isn't "bizmaneihem" correct for two different groups of people
>>who have different days? So this would seem to me to be derashah, not peshat.
>>Except that derashah is only for chumash, not kesuvim.
 
> ?  Who says we don't darshen kesuvim?

And it's the Gemara that darshens bizmaneihim.  Zman-zmanam-zmaneihem is 
explicitly the drash for saying we can lein Megillah on several different
days.  It's on the first page of the Gemara, attributed to Rabbi Akiva.
You can say it's just an asmachta, since the whole of Purim is Rabbinic,
still, it's treated as a drasha in the Gemara.

It turns out not to be necessary, but it's a legitimate drasha.

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