More Discussions for this daf
1. Cities that are near walled cities 2. 13 Adar 3. Questions
4. Gezeirah Shaveh must be handed down 5. Purim in Har Nof 6. Villagers reading the Megilah early on market days
7. Reading the Megilah on the 15th of Adar 8. Reading the Megilah 9. When the Megilah may be read on the 11th, 12th, and 13th
10. "Mentazpach" Tzofim Amarum 11. The end-letters MeNaTZPaCH 12. Rebbi Yehudah
13. Women Who Reside in the Kefarim 14. Heichan Remizah? 15. Rebbi Yehoshua ben Korchah argues with Rebbi Akiva?
16. End Letters 17. Tosfos 18. Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Korcha's Rebbe
19. Gezeirah Shavah of Perazi 20. Issues of Beis Din 21. Menatzpa"Ch
22. Various Questions 23. Ta'anis Esther in villages 24. Limiting the reading of the Megillah to the 14th
25. Walled city 26. רש״י ד״ה כדכתיב להיות עושים 27. תענית אסתר בכפרים
DAF DISCUSSIONS - MEGILAH 2

hg schild asked:

I read your entry thoughts but am not sure it answers my question.... in the places that advanced the megillah reading to the 11, 12 or 13 .... did they also come to town to daven together for the Taanis on the 13? (according to those who did not hold with Rabbenu Tam and that were was a fast). So when Purim fell on the 13th for them....did they do everything that day....or was the fast superceded by the feast? And if they were coming to town to fast..why did they not read the Megillah then instead of advancing it to the 11 or 12 and also coming in on the 13th?

hg schild, spring valley

The Kollel replies:

Although this is not the common explanation, an interesting explanation is advanced by the Sheiltos (Parshas Vayakhel, #67). He understands "Yom ha'Kenisah" as referring to Tanis Esther which is always on the thirteenth (see Hemek She'ailah ibid. regarding how this works out with our Mishna and includes the twelfth and eleventh). Accordingly, when it says that if Purim fell out on the Tuesday or Wednesday they would read on the Yom ha'Kenisah, this means that if it fell on Tuesday they would read on Monday, and if it fell on Wednesday they would read on Tuesday (not Monday). The Sheiltos implies that everything else would be done on the regular Purim, and this would still mainly be a day of fasting for the Kefarim.

Though his explanation is a minority opinion, the Pnei Yehoshua also states that assuming there is a Tanis, it makes sense that this is when the people of the Kefarim should read. The Chasam Sofer states that the main Purim should in fact be on the thirteenth, because this is when the miracle happened. However, being that they were fasting it could not become Purim, but it is still a day to read the Megilah. From all of the above, it seems that if the Kefarim would read on the thirteenth, all regular Halachos of Tanis Esther would apply, and the Halachos of Purim would be on the regular Purim.

All the best,

Yaakov Montrose