Megillah 19 - December 31, 27 Tevet

Study Guide Megillah 19 Today’s daf is sponsored by Shoshana Shur for the refuah shleima for her dear friend Shoshana Raizel bat Yaffa Sheindle. What are different substances that can't be used to write the Megillah. From where do we learn that it specifically needs to be with ink and on parchment? If one lives in a non-walled city or a walled city and visits a different city on Purim, which day of Purim are they to celebrate? From which part of the Megillah do we begin reading? Several opinions are brought - from the beginning, from when Mordechai is introduced, from when Haman is introduced, from the night Acheshverosh couldn't sleep. what is the root of the debate between the different rabbis? What is the significance of the Megillah being called both a book and a letter? One needs to read from a Megillah that just contains the Megillah and doesn't include others books of the Writings. What qualifications are there to this rule? Who can and who cannot read the Megillah? When the Mishna says that a deaf person can't read the Megillah, is that Rabbi Yosi's opinion who holds that even after the fact it is no good, as one needs to hear what he is saying or is it Rabbi Yehuda's opinion who requires that one hear what he is saying only ab initio, but after the fact, it is fine. Is that really Rabbi Yehuda's opinion? If so, there is an issue with a braita regarding a deaf person making the blessing on trauma which one can do even ab initio. That braita doesn't hold like Rabbi Yosi or Rabbi Yehuda?