[Avodah] Purim Torah

[Liron Kopinsky]

I am learning Gemarrah Rosh Hashana (19b) where it discusses sending out
messengers to let people know about Purim and Pesach.

I have not seen the following scenario discussed though.

Let's say there is a town which is 20 days away from Yerushalaim. In a
regular year, they would be forced to keep 2 days of Pesach, because there
is no way for them to find out what day Rosh Chodesh Nissan is before
Pesach comes in. That much I'm fine with.

But what if this year is yet not a leap-year, but might be (BD have not yet
made it an ibur shana, but they have until the last day of Adar 1 to do
so)? Do they have to be choshesh for both Adar 2 and Pesach at the same
time?

If they are living in a non-walled city, they would then have to do Megilla
reading on Erev Pesach as well as Bedikat Chametz. Which one would they do
first? The next day they would either give chametz shalach manot which
would have to be destroyed very shortly, or KLP ones. And I have no idea
what they would do about the purim seuda. Presumably do it early in the day
I guess. And if they are in a walled city (say Prague) would they read
Megilla on seder night? Presumably they would do the seder first since
that's d'Oraita?

Or are they allowed to rely on Rov and say that most years are not leap
years, so therefore they would only keep Pesach and not Purim?

In either case, presumably they would be keeping Pesach in what they assume
is Nissan, and if they were to then find out that BD made the year a leap
year (say 1/2 way through Chol Hamoed) then they would just immediately
return to their regularly scheduled lives and have to redo Pesach in
another month? If they relied on Rov, would they have to do anything to
make up their missed Purim?

Kol Tuv,

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Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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