[Avodah] End of sefer notes

[Daniel Israel]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:34:10 -0600 "kennethgmiller at juno.com" 
<kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:
>I mention that as a segue to a related point: Who did the chapter 
>divisions for Esther? Those do *not* align with the parshios (at 
>least, not as far as I can tell), yet when it is read on Purim, 
each 
>chapter break *is* marked with a pause. Why would we do that if 
>the breaks are non-Jewish?

Now that I think about it, almost everywhere I've ever spent Purim 
there were enough people who might have trouble following that the 
chapter numbers were announced.  And that holds for all of the 
megillos in my experience.  Could that be it?

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu