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Tag: megilla
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Megillat Miṣrayim
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a French rabbi active in Egypt in the first two decades of the 13th century. AA)
A mother buys her little son the privilege of reading the book of Esther in public, Damira in the Nile Delta, February/March 1244.