[Avodah] Darshening the Megillah

[Micha Berger]

Learning Y-mi, one finds a lot of dinim are backed up with pesuqim from
Nakh. One starts to wonder whether the Y-mi disagrees with the Bavli's
rule that no new halakhos come from Nakh, thus altering the whole "lo
bashamayim hi", or whether the Y-mi just really likes finding asmachtos.

I want to raise a different topic, but feels related. Can we use the 13
or 19 middos of derashah on the Megillah? These are to retreive intent
of Anshei Keneses haGedolah, not deOraisos, so it's not exactly the
same thing.

On Megillah 1:1 (vilna 1b -- yes, the Y-mi has a daf alef), R' Chelbo
and R' Chunah vesheim Rav say "... zos omeres sheMegillas Esther nitenah
lehidareish".

(I want to start a separate thread on what that "zos" is, but I didn't
finish the broader sugyah yet.)

R' Yada besheim R' Laizer gets it from "divrei shalom va'emes" (Esther 9),
in comparison to "emes" in Mishlei 23. The bavli uses this comparison to
show that the megillah needs sirtut, just like a seifer Torah. But the
Y-mi learns two things: sirtut, and nitenah lehidareish.

Perhaps this is part of why the soferim were called soferim -- they had
that ability to make every word and letter matter. Just as they counted
the letters of the Torah. It's an entire way of thinking being described.

R' Yirmiyah besheim R' Shmuel b"R Yitzchaq says that the megillah Shemuel
gave David, which we don't have, is also nitenah lehidareish. I guess
whomever is charged with designing bayis shelishi (assuming it doesn't
come down from shamayim pre-made) can ask for a copy and darshen from
it how to build a BHMQ. And HQBH will "look down", "laugh" and say
"Nitzchuni banai, nitzchuni!"

This may mean only these three texts: the Torah, Megillas Esther, and
Shemuel's megillah.

Or it might mean that even Esther, the last sefer of kesuvim can be
darshened -- implying all of Tanakh, and then R' Yirmiyah extends this
even further by giving the example of a non-canonized prophetic text!


I really feel RYZ's absence. He probably knows a maqor, and would have
just fired up a one-liner that would have resolved my question...

-Micha

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