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Examples of megillah
megillah
While most movies play things safe, this over-the-top NC-17 madhouse goes for the whole megillah and more.
From the newsday.com
There are a number of cases, including reading of the megillah, where a limited number of authorities count women towards the minyan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
You get to do really great work, you really get to focus on the work, and all this megillah that goes on around it is gone.
From the time.com
Creativity was on show for the best costumes, while the megillah was read, mishloach manot were exchanged and charity given to the poor.
From the jewishnews.net.au
- (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account; "he insisted on giving us the whole megillah"
- (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim
- Megillah is the tenth Tractate of Mishnah in the Order Moed. It and its Gemara deal with the laws of Purim and offers exegetical understandings to the Book of Esther. It also includes laws concerning the public reading of the Torah and other communal synagogue practices. ...
- Any of the Five Scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures (Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther) to be read on certain days, especially Esther read at the festival of Purim; Any long, boring story
- (Heb., "scroll." Plural: megillot.) Term for five shorter books of the Bible Shir Hashirim or Song of Songs, Ruth, Ekha or Lamentations, Kohelet or Eccelesiastes, and Esther each of which fits on a single scroll and is chanted on a different Jewish holiday.
- (Hebrew, "scroll") Commonly refers to the book of Esther that tells the story of the deliverance of the Jews from a massacre planned by the Persian king's chancellor Haman. In slang, it has come to mean a very long story. See Purim.
- "Scroll." (pl.: megillot) Written text on papyrus or parchment sheets stitched end-to-end and rolled onto a stave, used prior to development of codexes (separate leaves or pages bound together as are today's books). ...
- Literally, "scroll" in Hebrew. There are several books in the Jewish bible referred to as "scrolls", but when used by itself, this term usually refers to the Scroll of Esther, which is read on Purim. See what Merriam Webster has to say about it.
- A scroll. Typically used as an abbreviation for the Scroll of Esther, but also applicaple to Torahs. Or in my experience, slang for a story that goes on and on.
