Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Carl Perkins looks at Masechet Megillah Daf 16.
This page is filled with interesting midrashic explanations of curiosities in the text of the Book of Esther (the “megillah” that is read on the holiday of Purim). In this Daily Daf Differently presentation, I focus on two examples of such midrashim, and show (a) how they address a literary problem in the Biblical text; and (b) how they tell us something about how the rabbis themselves and the societies in which they lived.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
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Rabbi Carl M. Perkins has been the spiritual leader of Temple Aliyah in Needham, MA, since 1991. Educated at Haverford College, Harvard Law School and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Carl has taught and lectured widely in the Boston area, including at Hebrew College and Boston College Law School. He is the author of the revised edition of Embracing Judaism, and numerous short essays on the Jewish Values Online website.He is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and a member of the board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.
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