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Can you feel Purim just around the corner? Who isn’t eagerly anticipating this annual Yom Tov extravaganza, featuring joyous dancing,
<em class="ContentPasted1">Mishloach Manos</em>, colorful costumes, and of course, the Megillah reading? This timeless scroll describes in detail the incredible turnabout when the Jewish nation was saved from the scheming machinations of the wicked and contemptible,
if not downright genocidal and megalomaniacal, Haman, by the self-sacrifice, quick thinking, and virtue of the noble and courageous Queen Esther and the brave and righteous Mordechai.</div>
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<h2 class="ContentPasted2"><em class="ContentPasted2">Ashkenazic</em> vs. <em class="ContentPasted2">
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<p class="ContentPasted2">Anyone who takes a quick gander around the <em class="ContentPasted2">
shul</em> at <em class="ContentPasted2">Krias HaMegillah</em> will notice that there are many types and sizes of Megillos: “<em class="ContentPasted2">HaMelech</em>” Megillos,<a href="https://ohr.edu/8309#_edn1" title="" class="ContentPasted2" data-loopstyle="link">[1]</a>
11 line “<em class="ContentPasted2">Gr”a</em>” Megillos,<a href="https://ohr.edu/8309#_edn2" title="" class="ContentPasted2">[2]</a> 21 line Megillos, 28 line Megillos, 42 line Megillos, 48 line Megillos,<a href="https://ohr.edu/8309#_edn3" title="" class="ContentPasted2">[3]</a>
and even perhaps Illuminated Megillos.<a href="https://ohr.edu/8309#_edn4" title="" class="ContentPasted2">[4]</a> However, there is one readily noticeable difference between most
<em class="ContentPasted2">Ashkenazic</em> and <em class="ContentPasted2">Sefardic</em> Megillos (aside for the actual
<em class="ContentPasted2">ksav</em>, of course):<a href="https://ohr.edu/8309#_edn5" title="" class="ContentPasted2">[5]</a> an
<em class="ContentPasted2">Amud</em>, the pole, stave, or <em class="ContentPasted2">
Eitz Chaim</em>, that is ubiquitously affixed at the end of <em class="ContentPasted2">
Sefardic</em> Megillos, but noticeably absent from most <em class="ContentPasted2">
Ashkenazic</em> Megillos.</p>
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Professor Yitzchok Levine<br>
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