革玛拉问:这条规定是为城里人的益处么?密释纳说,十四日逢星期一,村庄与大城镇就在当天诵读;若是为城里人,就该让村民提前到前一个聚集之日。革玛拉答:那就落在亚达月十日,而众贤没有把十日定为可诵以斯帖书卷的日子。
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革玛拉问:这是说这条规定是为城里人的益处么?
The Gemara asks: Is that to say that this ordinance is for the benefit of the cities?
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我们岂不是在密释纳里学过:若十四日落在星期一,村庄与大城镇就在当天诵读?
Didn’t we learn in the mishna that if the fourteenth occurred on a Monday, the residents of villages and large towns read it on that very day?
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若是这样,就是说许村民有时提前诵以斯帖书卷的这条规定是为城里人的益处,那么即便十四日落在星期一,也该让村民提前到前一个聚集之日诵读。
If it is so, that the ordinance allowing the villagers to sometimes advance their reading of the Megilla is for the benefit of the cities, let the villagers advance their reading to the previous day of assembly even when the fourteenth occurs on a Monday.
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革玛拉回应:那就意味着他们要在亚达月十日诵以斯帖书卷,而众贤没有把亚达月十日定为适合诵以斯帖书卷的日子。
The Gemara responds: That would mean that Megilla reading for them would take place on the tenth of Adar, and the Sages did not establish the tenth of Adar as a day that is fit to read the Megilla.