[Avodah] purim drink

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Mar 22 14:07:44 PDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:54:03AM +0200, Lisa Liel via Avodah wrote:
:> The Baal haMaor reads the gemara as "Rabba Shechat lei leR' Zeira
:> is the masqana, and one is not supposed to drink on Purim.
: 
: For the record, the verb shachat in Akkadian (Babylonian) means
: "attack", rather than "slaughter".

But it continues (Megillah 7b) "lemachar, ba'ei Rachmei ve'achyeih". R
Zeira required revival afterward.

The story could be ahistorical or it could be guzma. But I do think
the usual (for Aramaic) shachat = slaughtered is intended.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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